what do you do for a living /diy/?
I repair wooden rollercoasters
pic related
>>937591
Do you get to keep the shit fallen off the coaster
Thats a nice job.
I help privileged people avoid paying tax.
>>937593
the lawnmower men has long since picked through all that stuff its the off season
Is that in Minnesota?
>>937603
no its kings island in ohio
>>937591
I deliver cookies at night.
>tfw engineering student struggling to get by
Project manager for a water company, degrees in engineering systems and civil engineering though
I barely scrape by with online sales and work as a facilities technician for a makerspace fixing the building and tools.
Sound technician on big festivals, long weeks, tons of work, and a shit pay check to show for it. But in all seriousness the job is really fucking awesome.
>>937612
I was a part time 3rd shift doughnut delivery guy for a summer back in high school.
It was an easy job, but it made socializing hard especially because there were twice as many deliveries on Saturday night than any other night. Gas stations would have their regular orders on regular days, and then have expanded standing orders from churches on Sundays.
Welder, I specialize in ornamental metal and structural steel, I do so e of the lost arts of welding such as oxy acetylene and cast iron work. It's a fu. Job
>>937591
I'm a professional NEET (farmer). It's winter, I don't have anything to do. I've been thinking about becoming a teacher too so I don't have to work in summer. Just need to figure out how to not work in summer and winter at the same time with two jobs.
I'm doing a fine woodworking course in college. I'll probably be working in a cabinetry shop for my work hours
>>937591
How do I get into this? Applied to an amusement park before, but heard nothing.
Currently a project manager for HOA maintenance and repairs
i fix elevators. i have 13 years in the trade.
when people ask "oh, yeah? what's that like?" we are required by code to reply "oh, you know... it has its ups and downs"
>>937802
Boooo
Computer engineer. I design circuits and software to get ancient industrial automation equipment connected to modern networks. I did a project for CERN this month. Feels good.
I've been in electronics, in one way or another, for around 18 years. I finally figured out what I like and spent a few years in the virtual reality business designing hardware. Then I moved so my significant other could advance her career. Mfw now I'm back to designing pcbs and doing reliability testing. Mfw I made the wrong move and have lost several years for it. My. Face. When...
Domestic electronic repair. Hoping to find some other job as the field has died.
>>937811
How long did it take you to get your degree(s)? Are you in debt from school? Overall, how difficult was the process in becoming certified in computer engineering?
Scientist. Solid state physicist.
>>937591
Just enrolled In a 9 month TIG welding course that will get me certifications and after that plan on a course for mig, smaw/arc and pipe and aluminum welding with copper intro then fab work. Ultimately want to make art in my free time and do construction and fabrication.
Prior to this I completed 3 years of zoology focused on fisheries biology and aquatic conservation. I worked in "sustainable" aquaculture. Fuck killing the earth with farming man. I gave it up. Just turned 23 and did a stint working at Michaels arts and crafts. Super fucking gay. My fiancé is at grad school to get her masters and become a registered dietician so we are supporting each other with loans right now but by the end of it we should only have 30k total debt between us which is nothing compared to most dumb ass psychology majors.
It's hard moving across the country alone with no family and only each other. We are high school sweet hearts and since we did this I know we can do anything.
Also I bought a jeep wrangler so I have that going for me which is nice. Outdoor stuff is awesome in the west and shooting on BLM recreation land is awesome.
>pic related is cheap wire sculptures I made sitting watching Netflix with my dog by my feet
Nothing special but.....eh
Industrial automation repair. Everything from deciphering 30 year old PLC circuit boards to installing brand new hardware. Managed to dump 3phase into your 24vDC line? Call us. Your JCB driver dropped 2 tons of liquid ooze into your control panels? Call us. Blown up your washing machine? Call a washing machine repair guy.
>>937876
It just happened to me 2 days ago; an engineer made a jumper cable to start a motor and accidentally connected the 3 phase to the 24v Dc line. It burned 12 32A contactors, and 5 output cards, fortunately the Vipa Cpu was spared.
Repair guy in a quarry.
>>937591
Network engineer here. Just started as a desktop tech for the company I'm at and they moved me up as I proved myself. 0 student loans, 0 degrees, but plenty of certification courses paid for by the company.
I consider myself really lucky because before this I was a tech at a Chevy dealership before a transmission jack failed and shattered my wrist. Dumb luck prevails sometimes....
Still miss wrenching sometimes though & I'm probably going to get a project car soon.
Watchmaker, mainly prototyping,
>>937915
I enjoyed those(or the one) threads you made awhile back.
>>937856
Why do you assume his fat, ignorant and American?
I have a degree in genetics and did some research for a while (my research saved the lives of unborn babies so it was kind of cool as it wasn't just research for research). But it was too 9-5 so I quit and I have been doing this and that for years (actually did it before my career in science so actually have been doing odd jobs my whole life).
Now I have just started my own business and I concentrate in the following fields:
Photographing baby swimmers. Means a lot of photo editing
Setting up and setting down an international exhibition. Means a lot of travel which sucks because I have two smallish children.
Biological field work at sea. Mostly diving, but all kinds of sampling really.
>>937802
I'm an elevator engineer, I've probably helped your dumbass before. Who do you work for?
>>937856
It was a four year university bachelor degree. It was a pretty tough program with less than half of the people who started making it to graduation. I'm in Canada where university isn't ridiculously expensive and I had scholarships so I finished only $20k in debt.
Some of my co-workers just did two-year programming courses at tech schools and have been able to self-teach enough electronics to handle the same work as me most of the time.
>>937802
This guy is telling the truth. Can confirm that every elevator tech to even come in my building has said this.
>>937608
Is that the Beastie?
>>937892
Seimens tank 3phase amazingly well. When i got handed all these toasted modules, all that was blown were the protection fuses and diodes on the i/o side. Perfect example of why industrial hardware is so much more expensive than consumer grade kit.
Valet, Mayweather came through last night, always glad to see him.
Used to work at a custom cabinet shop before this.
>>938007
As a non install consumer I can say is never bothered me that my 24v appliances can't deal with 3 phase
>>937811
What do you get paid?
I'm a student who fails to live off financial aid, so I supplement with mooching off of friends and family.
>>937972
it is
>>937795
start by being a union carpenter
next dont be afraid of heights
after that wait for the call for workers out of the union hall
I'm literally a NEET, no trade nor any kind of degree, I didn't even finished the high school.
>>938080
how do you even not finish highschool
all I had to do was show up
>>938081
Well that's the problem, I didn't show up. I spent my teens playing football, smoking weed, going to the beach and sleeping instead of going to school.
Now I'm 25 and still live with my parents.
>>938104
well theres a future for you as a laborer or maybe get your ged its easy
union laborers make 20+ an hour
Being an editor's bitch while I'm in welding school.
automation engineer in a brewery
I'm head of operations at an engineering and fabrication firm.
It's a pretty casual company though. Good fun and varied work
Jizzmopper-jack shack
>>937591
Cabinetmaker in Ontario Canada...
Labor-market economist.
>>937591
Network Administrator. I do contract work for the gub'ment, securing and patching various computers and servers on various networks. It's even less exciting then it sounds, but whatever. I'm good at it and get paid to do it. It's nice being able to fix security flaws and learn new things.
I'm still super new to /diy/ and am trying to learn as much as I can about woodworking, but it's been a complete shit show so far. I literally just bought a coping saw today, which I broke in about 10 minutes on a 2x4 while trying to cut on a curve for a coat hook. Then was using a shit-tier jig saw with the blade in upside down for about an hour and wondering why I had so much shake on the wood. I've never felt so retarded, but it's still fun and exciting.
Police.....
>>938226
Die a painful death, pig.
>>938226
>>938239
The police killed almost 1,000 people in America last year. Kill yourself, cop lover and/or pig.
>>938245
And yet if you are actually stopped as a white they are MORE likely to end up killing you than if you are black.
It's almost like they're letting the blacks get away with all the crimes they commit at far far far higher numbers than whites, even if you anonymously ask their own communities about crime and who commits it.
>>938245
>1000 people that were acting like morons, a few genuine accidents, and a few genuine cop shootings.
yeah. I don't mind cops. Some are assholes, like the guy that gave me a ticket on an empty road in the middle of the night, but they're doing their job. can;t hold it against them most times. Hating someone based solely on their profession is childish. A job's a job.
Has diy been getting plenty of new traffic lately or is it just me?
>>938254
What defines a job? What if you run a child porn site for a living? If you call it a job, does that alleviate you of all guilt and responsibility, because hey, it's just a job, man.
Or how about the CEO of a company that knows that the work his company is doing is having a dramatic negative effect on other people and the environment, like the CEO or Shell? Do you get off because you're just doing what's best for your company?
>>938254
Clover has /diy/ as one of several default home boards. Expect it to get worse as more people update to the new version.
>>938262
It does go a long way with cops. They are just enforcing laws that people voted for. What are they going to do? Not enforce laws so people are in eternal terror if the cops are going to turn around and decide to enforce a law one day?
Did you not think that tax evasion or parking tickets or selling cigarettes illegally wouldn't end up with you getting shot by a cop? That's what law is.
>>938226
90%ish of cops are decent. 10% powertrip. Vast majority of videos of "police brutality" I've seen, the people deserved it. Usually get a chuckle when people try to assault an officer.
>>937647
Sounds like a fun job. Everyone would always be happy to see you.
>>937591
CEO/technician. Low voltage electrical. Fire alarm/security alarm/access control/cameras. Interesting work. Busy as Fuck.
I work in a shop that builds plastic injection molds. I run CNC machines of various types. We just got pic related last year and I feel like I was transported into the future. We're currently working on a part for McLaren and another for Porsche, in addition to the constant flow of tub surrounds, etc.
I'm a shop assistant for a small company that builds wooden boats, and services various boats at a marina.
I think I'm developing a sensitivity to epoxy though; probably not going to last long term there as a result of that.
>>938273
Wow, small world.
Security Alarm (DMP)/Access Control (Lenel)/Cameras-DVRs. Also Certified locksmith for Vaults, SD Boxes, Doors, Undercounter Steel. Oh, and in my spare time (LOL) I am an NCR certified ATM service Technician.
Typical week is 70 hours. On call weeks go 80+
>>938245
Not the cop, "race" is a social construct and irrelevant. If you do not listen to instructions and go to far you get shot. Most of the people who get shot are not people you want in your community in the first place. Stop crying, grow up, get a job and chill.
>>938275
Hmm well what a coincidence im a setup tech. for plastic injection molds.
>>938288
>race is a social construct
Except for all those Kenyan gold medal runners.
And European swimmers.
And Jewish Noble Price Winners
And black basketball players.
And pygmies
And.
Fuck man. How cucked are you? It's all universal and we're one people? I'll fucking believe it when the feeling is actually reciprocated-- instead, the more and more I freely give, the more I am crushed underneath the boot heel of 'racism'
Composites lay-up technician for a fairly large aerospace manufacturer, working in a "clean" room that's more of a "somewhat less dust than a kitchen" room.
Currently I am assigned to building the shells (and panels for said shells) that aircraft evacuation slides go in.
>>938312
I also, huff glue for a living. Work in a job shop that does mostly one off parts with either the scrimp process or pre-preg. Its meh.
>>938288
>Race is social construct
>You can tell a person's race by genetic samples and testing
Pick one you retard.
>>938317
That nigga fucked up
Ethnicity is a social construct
Race is biologically determined
Raise animals for meat, part time.
Do some tech/photography/film for a school part time.
I thought this board was the only one left where threads wouldn't devolve into people derailing the thread arguing about race or some other bullshit.
Anyway, I'm finishing my welding course. Still have to find a place to do my 3-week internship, but the town is pretty dry. I have some tickets, 3-position stick and flat MIG, so that might put me somewhere. I really want to start working. I passed my 2gf and 3gf flux core tests, but failed my flat, so I have to redo the test within 3 months if I want the tickets. These are CWB tickets.
>>938038
Oh, it was a bonus prize that it could survive 3phase, the install was over a decade old. No, the real prize with industrial grade kit is the hardware can be left, and I'm talking about stuff that is, at it's very core, not that much different in terms of functionality to an Arduino, but it can be left running in waist height sawdust, under the eaves of a slaughterhouse, running sausage machines and bakeries for upwards of 30 years with minimal or even no maintenance. Most people don't even notice some of this stuff UNTIL the control panel rusts through and shorts out the power supply or some genius sticks a screwdriver in the wrong hole and connects the three phase to the 24v line.
I love my job really. I get to see all the sins of maintenance engineers and managers who failed to keep backups and spares. In many cases I am the last line between a company and a £30k refurbishment because the company that originally built their factory doesn't exit any more and the people that created the software died or retired just before the Internet became mainstream.
I mainly do tig welding, but my function requires me to do a fair amount of sheetmetal work too. We mainly work with stainless steel, mostly 1,5-2 mm thick.
We have a wide range of products, and do a lot of custom work with a heavy focus on the finishing. everything has to look as pretty as possible, which often means a lot of grinding and polishing.
It's a fun job, mainly because of the versatile work. We do very little production, so most things I make are either one-off, or small amounts.
>>937907
#yolobathsalts
And we all know what that means.
>>938304
Question: Are hot runner molds a bastards to set up? Because they're bastards to put together.
I'm a security guard. I hate it.
I desperately want a /diy/ profession but I'm not skilled enough to be employable for one.
>>938373
You have both 2 gfs and 3 gfs? I don't even have one...
For real though that's neat. I tried to get into welding but tendinitis makes my hands too shakey.
>>938282
Happens to everyone who works with epoxy. Make sure you wear gloves.
>>938456
Oh god, please tell me you're not a 9 dollar an hour mall rent a cop at least?
>>938470
No, thank god for small mercies. I sit at the front desk of a call center and check staff passes for 12 hours a day. It's good money though, and I'm saving every penny to get the hell away from here.
In my spare time though, I fix broken electronics. Last project was a TPS-L2 walkman. So at least I'm still doing something /diy/ related.
>>938115
Since I'm the only son and my parents have their home paid I will just stay here and enjoy life as I've been enjoying in the last decade. Fuck being a wage slave.
>>937591
killing myself! however in my free time i enjoy working with the national deficit collection agency. i wonder if you owe us money
>>937811
What did you do for CERN?Best thing about CERN is the food man .I loved it when I was there
>>938622
I developed a network of temperature sensors to help them deal with overheating equipment. I haven't visited the site yet. That only happens if things are too important or complicated to walk someone through the installation over the phone, and this project probably won't be like that.
>>937591
Get off Woodstock Express you're fucking it up
>>937811
>I design circuits and software to get ancient industrial automation equipment connected to modern networks.
Goddamn dude. I hope you enjoy it, I've messed with old automation equipment before and I can't imagine it's easy integrating them to modern networks.
At least I didn't have to deal with a turbo encabulator.
Subsea Engineer
>>937612
vee dub?
>>938811
I really love it. The most important thing to me is a job I find exciting and challenging. For the first six years after graduation I worked five different jobs because being bored at work meant it was time to move on. I've had this job for four years now and it's still feels great.
>>938745
im making it better removing rotten track wood
>>938467
I wear a tyvek suit, respirator, gloves then tape myself up like a gift, but I've still been coming home blown up like I got stung by a hive of bees.
I find the trade incredibly interesting though; hopefully I can stick it out.
PLM/CAD process development. Which means I travel around the world drinking profusely while I train people how to do things worse than they are today.
I'm a machinist at a small job shop. Just the boss and me, he took over the business when our old boss retired. It was by no means what I expected to find myself doing, but there's an immense satisfaction in seeing some beat up hunk of shit stock on the bandsaw end up becoming intricate parts. We mostly work aluminum for the optics industry.
>>937591
NEET
I watch anime all day, provide sound advice here and occasionally build shitty furniture with your help. thanks guys.
>>938286
>certified locksmith for vaults
You must work for Diebold to be touting a "certification" for vaults. You guys don't know your ass from a hole in the ground. When I wasn't doing institutional work, district managers of your contracts would call me or my company to fix shit you chuckle fucks couldn't. You guys are the epitome of jack of all, master of none.
Cheers for the work!
Manufacturing engineer for a large forging company, we make large aerospace parts and big round disks for power generation turbines. Before this, I built firetrucks for 3 years.
i dont (yet)
ill most likely either finish my composites classes and hopefully make prosthesis, or if it tickles my fancy, get a few welding certifications and go to the cold north and freeze my ass off.
>>938827
Did you ever ride the King Cobra?
>>939184
I have it was a fun one
my favorite is the flight of fear
>>939187
Do they ever run flight of fear with the lights on?
>>939192
i dont know ive only rode it in the dark 30 mins before closing because fuck lines
the track removed
>>937591
I'm an engineer at Bombardier.
Someone please buy our planes.
I'm surprised there is so many soon to be welders here. I'm about to finish my associates degree in welding myself. All I have left is this last semester on 2g 5g and 6g pipe. I already landed 3 good jobs welding structural. Two of those 3 jobs payed 26/hr and 28/hr with 80$ per diem. It's most I've ever made and I loved every bit of it. The work, the travel, staying with a roommate in a hotel that welds with you getting drunk every night. I've been saving money for a while now and getting a fat tax return. Going to buy my first welding truck/rig after I graduate and hit the pipeline. Highly recommend this trade for anyone that is lost or stuck. Keep in mind I've never burned a rod or wore a hood prior to school so it's not too late to start at any age. (Currently 23)
>>939853
pls stop sucking all our tax money
thanks
Apartment maintenance
>>939869
No
plz buy
>>937616
Diego?
P/T sales associate at Home Depot. Shit post DIY in my off time.
>>939867
Learning how to weld seems to be a good way to pick yourself up or start a career, possibly to branch off into other trades or specializations. I'm in school myself, busting ass trying to practice everything TIG related. I'd really like to work for a subcontractor for NASA or maybe SpaceX.
>>937612
> tfw hi sarah
I test/clean/issue cable boxes. Watch cable all day.
Same with modems & routers.
me and my dad run a small but growing construction company in the uk, we're both carpenters by trade (god tier trade)
>>937591
Fuck me man. I went to cedar point over the summer and rode the white woody over near the marina. I thought for sure i was going to fucking die. There was only like 2 people on the entire train i was on and every time it went over a hump i could feel the train lifting up off the tracks. Never again will i ride a wooden roller coaster.
Also, IT.
>>940194
I think that is literally the point of wooden coasters, to coast. The wheels don't clamp the rails they just keep it from flying off.
>>937591
fix any machinery the company has from chainsaws to you name it.
there isn't really anything i like about it and i'm not really good at it either. pay isn't even that great. i'm hoping i'll get better over the years but these rookie mistakes just really gets to me. there are way too often times where i honestly have no idea on how to proceed.
and for some reason i hate engineers now. dunno why but i always imagine them in my shoes spending all day using the measuring tools to quantum calculate the size of their dick and how much voltage and resistance it has.
>>937670
Do you enjoy welding and how's the field doing?
Average pay?
easy to find work?
Do you work on your own?
>>940197
i am talking like 6-12" of lift.
>>938825
yes.
>>940029
While I do have a girl's name, I am in fact a guy. Not sarah, though.
>>938266
What/who is clover?
>>940204
Yes that sounds perfectly normal.
One time I was on a steel suspended coaster where your feet dangle and I felt one of my feet brush a truss on a support column. Looking back it was probably nowhere near and just felt close because of the speed and air pressure or something.
But the moral of the story is I rode it again because I'm not a quivering poofter.
Not even the scariest ride experience I've had.
I wipe the asses of the elderly
>>940223
i salute you. someone has to do it.
>>940230
Thank you my friend
I am an electrician over here in germany in a big mining company.
Lots of stuff to do. I work at the surface at the moment, but also was inside the earth too already.
>>940197
op here
they do clamp down somewhat
theres a bottom and a top wheel
>>937591
Custom made orthotics/ modifying orthopedic shoes to accommodate how shitty people's feet eventually become. The money's decent, owner is great, but the people are just outright fucking terrible. Cheap, greedy, con-artists that try to manipulate their way into deep discounts even if it means we close up shop because no profit.
>>940466
Flat feet degenerate here.
Are custom insoles actually worth the money over standard birkenstock ones and such?
You can be honest, we're all friends here :^)
>>940470
Accept now that you will always be flatfooted and the only thing now you can do is make your feet comfortable.
Yes. Birkenstock are rigid supports and are not built from casts of your arches, so they will always be off. ( Each of your arches are different between the two of them and each of your feet are different sizes) We found custom semi rigid thermacork insoles are the most supportive, while being the comfortable to wear due the natural "give" of the material, the ability to offload pressure where there's pain, and add as much cushion as need be.
Avoid buying orthotics from Podiatrists, especially the hard polypropylene orthotics they offer, everyone ends up hating. They are extortionately overpriced for something they outsource and are not able or have the knowledge to modify if it doesn't fit properly. If they can adjust them, they do at an exorbitant fee on top of the price of the orthotic.
We deal with hundreds of podiatrists, they refer patients to us, we know how they operate.
Look for Pedorthists. They specialize in only orthotics and orthopedic shoes.
>>940499
That's actually pretty helpful, thanks breh
>>940500
Also, flatfeet will only get worse if they are not supported. Even if it means buying an over-the-counter insole with an arch to save money, do it. You may not be in pain now, but you will be eventually, I've seen it hundreds of times. Good luck.
>>940466
I'm just pissed because my fucking doctor man says 'yeap this guy needs orthotics' and insurance is like 'does he have diabeetus? Because if he doesn't then he doesn't get any coverage.'
FFFFFFFFfffffffff
diesel tech here, certs in cummins engines and international engines.
>>940503
This is bullshit. Flat feet are not a problem if the muscles are properly exercised and trained and the foot is allowed to spread naturally. Most peoples foot muscles are very weak and messed up from a lifetime of never having to support themselves. I have flat feet, and always had problems until I gave up supportive shoes and switched to a combination of bare feet and zero drop minimalist shoes. I have actually developed a bit of a natural arch.
>>937781
Try substitute teaching.
>>937591
I make these. I wish I was dead.
>>940582
CNC Laser operator, mostly do high precision laser cutting of various materials such as s
SS, copper, aluminium, titanium and sometimes even gold. The machine I operate is "only" 400W so can only go up to about 2mm in thickness with reasonably reliable and consistent results. I also sometimes use it for welding without adding any material.
>>937591
Grocery department manager.
I work night shifts making sure people in my town don't starve to death and get yelled at for not having incredibly specific foods an individual wanting to buy them once a year. Also still live with my parents.
I need space to do a real DIY, or something. Years of studying advanced material manufacturing has given me many insane idea. Although realistically I probably won't use most of my knowledge, I really don't want to deal with things like Hexavalent Chromium and others for cost, legal and safety reasons.
>>940574
This
Anytime I wear supportive shoes of any kind my feet ache at the end of the day
When I spend my days off running around barefoot I hardly notice anything.
Also when I ditch my shoes for a while my callouses go away
started laying the new track today
the wood they sent us is all fucked up its supposed to be 1 1/2 inches square strips but only a quarter of the wood they sent is that dimension most was off a quarter inch or more
Pipeline Laborer
>>940223
Shit, I feel ya senpai.
I used to work as an LPN at a couple of nursing homes until I became an RN and moved to a general practice.
I thought about staying in the nursing home, since they offered a better wage than the GP, and hearing all the old folks' stories always brightened my day, but I couldn't handle my favorite residents dying all the time.
USAF Munitions
Vet tech.
Lots of cleaning. Cleaning blood, poop,pee,snot. Mopping vacuuming, dealing with people. It's an awesome job though. When the animals are nice they are really nice and when they are mean I judge their owners.
OP why don't you start a business where you repair wooden roller coasters AND vacuum impregnate wood with epoxy resin so it never rots and wears MUCH more slowly?
:)
Epoxy resin turns wood to steel if it impregnates it and sets.
>>940574
>>940786
>conventional wisdom and standardized practices doesnt apply to me, there is an orthopedic conspiracy!
Just like every other physical therapy, its going to hurt more before it gets better.
You arent the first, and you wont be the last to feel this way, but you will regret it when you start to feel real debilitating pain of spurs and fasciitis.
>>941496
>conventional wisdom
Not that guy, but conventional wisdom for hundreds of years was to drain the ill humours from the body i.e. slice a vein and let all the good shit flow.
>>941495
because then he'd destroy his wooden rollercoaster business
>>940599
I use those. I'm glad you're alive.
Im an Entomological Taxidermist, so when im not filling spreadsheets i poke Insects with needles
>>941503
Dont get too caught up on semantics, its modern medicine in the same league as the ones building custom orthotics for amputees and wreck victims. Not only can ignoring it cause severe foot problems it can over time cause knee,hip, and lower back damage.
Its like the people who work on computers saying that it feels better to have bad posture. Maybe not now, maybe not next year, but you WILL eventually have neck and back problems, nerve problems.
It is literally bad posture at every point starting from your foot all the way to your spine, holding the whole weight of your body.
Walking barefoot and doing a few dinky exercises doesnt fix what is pretty much a medical condition.
>>940599
I use all of those things regularly. I wish you were dead.
>>938317
>citation needed
I'm a natural gas mechanic.
For most of the year I either change meters, build now mains or check if they are leaking. It's just as interesting as it sounds.
Commercial flooring.
>>941737
That's a neat mantis, what's her name?
>>941737
neato, im in a similar line of work, Kil bugs in peoples house
Electronics repair. From Christmas lights to million dollar industrial gear.
For some reason, it's really, really common for people to hose out the electrics cabinets of sky lifts while they're plugged in. I don't claim to understand why.
>>937591
Auto tech.
> protip: do not auto tech.
I work for the government trying to make >>937594's clients pay more tax.
I'm a structural engineer and I manage a steel fabrication workshop.
I design and supply any kind of structural steel. I used to fabricate in the workshop myself, but I don't have much chance to nowadays.
> Just got my Journeyman ticket
> No jobs anywhere
Thanks, whoever convinced me to be a welder.
>>938104
>Now I'm 25 and still live with my parents.
>MFW same boat
Everyone keeps telling me how smart I am, but I'm not sure how smart I could possibly be if I can't even figure out how to leverage my skills into something that isn't a part-time job that pays $10.50/hour.
>>937591
Im a paratrooper. Artillery branch.
>>938533
>>942161
In 25, still at home, didnt graduate high school.
My parents rent so we move every couple years, and I have a special needs sister who I pretty much take care of.
My 2 brothers moved out and got on with their lives years ago, now I feel a sense of obligation to this trap because I know my sister will never live on her own. Its like I adopted a teenage kid against my will, and when my parents croak ill be stuck on the hook taking care of her. And I wont even get a house or any asset of money from them
It weighs heavily on me because like I said, as a dropout I have no real easy outs into a career. Having a bad back cuts most manual labor out too.
But hey fuck it, things always turn out in the end.
>>941503
That works, though. It's the placebo effect. Why do you think people cut themselves? It's a physiological response to let the cutter and others around the cutter know they are infected.
Look at animals that get parasites. They do strange shit.
There are some parasites humans get that I don't think we know about because it's probably kept under wraps.
Being able to have a bunch of mind controlled parasitic zombie humans is probably something some people approve of.
>>937591
i finish high school and im studying to be an accountant,in my country the best university it's free but its really really hard but i hope to end the career and move to another country
>>942163
18th?
If so, y'all at least used to have one of the best Difacs on Bragg. Does Psyop/CA AIT still use it?
>>942161
You're only smart to be living back at home if you're saving for a down payment on your house. Living at home because of your limited financial circumstances doesn't really scream "I figured it out!"
I'm a Mechanical engineer. I design cranes and passerelles for mega yachts.. (Play toys for billionaires)
Before this gig I was in the aerospace industry and designed parts for lots of Missles and smart weapon systems for Boeing, Ratheon, Lockheed Martin.
>research assistant at EEE department
I conduct the C programming and microcontrollers labs. Fuck debugging those rat's nests our students call circuits.
>>937591
that's a cool job buddy! Have you ever gotten laid for the simple fact that you're a "roller coaster builder"?
>>941932
Literally Google race identification by genetics you retarded fuck.
It's the same reason DNA can differentiate between a pit bull and a golden retriever and tell you what breeds are mixed into a mutt. Dogs are the same species but different races essentially within the species. Just like different races exist in the human species. It doesn't mean one race is necessarily better than another just as one dog breed is not better than another but you're retarded to think race is not a genetic certainty that is related to health and behavior.
Apprentice Lineman, on track to be a journeyman. I fix, build, and maintain power lines and utility poles. Good pay, good benefits, fun job. Only downsides are the hours can be pretty brutal and the work is dangerous as hell considering you're working around live power lines.
Considering saving money for a plot of land and then building my own house, but while my finances are perfectly capable of funding that, my work hours are prohibitive.
>>942634
I'm not him, but there are differences in DNA within the same race just as significant as the differences between different races, are there not?
Race is indeed a social construct because if you and community of your race(let's say you're white) lived in the African Sahara for thousands of years, even without mixing with the locals you would mostly be indistinguishable from them to the naked eye.
>>942721
Yes, but no.
An individual's genotype may place him well outside the average for his race.
That doesn't mean his race doesn't have an average. --Yao Ming is a tall Chinese guy. That doesn't mean the average Chinese heigh is 7'6".
This matters when bleeding hearts look at racial aggregates in society and decide they need to fix something. The race is there. Yes, any individual can be an outlier of the race. But the race is still there as an average, and that is how they get counted in all the crime, education, and poverty numbers.
>>940786
If your longest toe isn't a finger's width from the edge of the shoe, it's too small. Jamming your feet in a shoe that's two sizes to small will cause your feet to ache and cause callouses.
>>940574
Yes, let your foot which naturally spreads flat, flatten out. Yes, pronate and cause strain on the knees, hips and lower back who are desperately trying to align your body to correct your bullshit. Don't worry because it's natural. You obviously never worked with someone who had an actual medical condition.
Also, the majority of people always fit themselves too small and too narrow in supportive shoes because they think the know more than anybody, but they end up fucking their own feet up even more.
Take someone's advice since your obviously have no idea what you're doing.
>>941496
This, I see this all day, every day. Arrogant morons who tried to take care of their own feet and ended up with fucked feet. They come in and refuse to listen to experience because it doesn't agree in their minds. "I don't feel anything now, so I never will."
They come crawling back.
>>942763
I'm getting callouses on the top of the distal joint of my third toe.
Fug. I guess I probably need to buy bigger toe boxes? Fug. I need lineman boots for work and this pair is only two years old.
>>942807
Wider the width, deeper the toe box.
Sounds like the shoe is too short though.
Easiest way to tell, make sure your longest toe is a index finger's width from edge of the shoe. If it's not, the shoe's too short and not matter the width you're always going to rub callouses if you're jammed in the shoe.
Working with feet everyday, so many problem stem from short and narrow shoes.
>>942823
>narrow
Has always been my problem.
I've got fucking sasquatch feet, only a size 12 boot in length, but almost always have to wear 13 or 14 wides. They just don't make 12 extra wide.
So now I've got hammer toes up the ass on both feet, really bad on the 4th and 5th toes, mild on the middle toes.
>>940625
>high precision
Can You put that in numbers?
>>942154
I don't know how it works for you guys exactly, but isn't the journeyman thing mainly for construction? The way I understand it is there aren't many welding jobs in construction anywhere in the first world, but there's a moderate to huge shortage of welders in fabrication shops.
At least that's how it is here in quebeckistan.
Project Coordinator for large commercial HVAC projects in Wash DC.
I model all of the ductwork, and then the design team and I work out the clashes between trades prior to fabrication so the men installing in the field don't have to use their brains.
After all the duct is clash free, I upload the ductwork file to a Vulcan machine that cuts all the metal from large sheets.
I then either start a new project if one is on the books, or I head out into the field and install the shit I drew.
Underwater welding/salvage diver
>>942067
You two should date
>>942955
Why date when they can just meet up at one of the capitol hill gloryholes.
>>937591
>those tie off points
Ehhhhh
>>942893
I would hazard to guess at least a dozen pipefitters are working steady in the 15 largest refineries in the US. I work in one of them and have worked in a couple others and they're always there somewhere, between 15 and 40 usually depending on the job. Seems they only do SMAW. This place is old as hell and while some of it is new construction a lot is replacing lines that are rusted through and about to blow out. welders are also out there building platforms on New equipment and redoing stairs and such. They just replaced all the platforms around a massive steam generator at one plant, the structure is four levels with 2 sides, about 150 ft tall and 400ft wide, took about 2 months.
>>942161
Tbh this is more like mfw living with my parents at 25
But again I'm pretty lucky with my parents, they don't charge me anything or ask for it. Only my mother says "anon, try to get a job or go study something, also get a gf" but rarely and in a pretty relaxed way.
I have some monies, car, paid internet, sometimes I get to travel and see other countries. Of course I would like to have some more money that would allow me to buy a piece of land and build my on little house, otherwise life's good.
>>942169
Sorry to hear about your sis man, I hope everything turns out better in the future.
>>938872
I repair eyeglass frames and occasionally grind lenses
Avionics tech.
Working on planes is fun and theres so much spare time to work on projects plus the benefit of free components, state of the art tools, and chemicals means i can build anything i want for free pretty much.
Already built a few rockets and rc planes from scratch with the guys from work all for free
I make these for you toothless fucks
>>937591
You know those guys on /g/ who want to be network technicians or sysadmins or whatever and get jobs fixing people's shit?
Well, I fix their fuckups for like $30/hr
>>943144
>>942161
>>938104
>>938115
>>938080
get dexamphetamine.
I am in the same boat. finished highschool though. problem was that I have a learning disability caused by a brain injury. slow processing speed/ADD. I am diagnosed NOW. but back then I was going to psychologists trying to find out what the problem was. this is a true story. the school counsellor told me that she faked the results of my IQ testing that I requested. I knew something was wrong. but she just assessed me as average intelligence because she thought i just wanted to prove how intelligent I was and it'd just give me a big head. I heard lazy a lot. when I went back to get a copy of the results, "anon-kun I just faked those results because I thought it was the best thing for you." so I took a long time trying to work through it. flunked out of university. got a dead end job for 18 months working at a computer store. even fucked that up. mostly because I had issues with their returns methodology. also couldnt concentrate for shit. I had no time at all for anything while working full time. THAT was stagnation. just having a job doesnt mean you are "making it."
anyway fastforward, meet a girl on tinder. have awkward date, no sex.
>she quit university because alure of mcdonalds pay was too much
>she has completely stagnated
>no appreciation for anything cultural
>little awareness of culture
>she's been working for 7 years as fry cook for McDonalds
>she says that she finds her job fulfilling because its something new each day
>McDonalds is well known for treating their workers as automatons
>mfw I already escaped this trap
>have been absorbing the western canon
>well versed in art, literature, culture
>have learnt many skills like rebuilding engines, construction, design, materials, shitposting, electronics repair, furniture building, mycology
>her life stagnated the day she took her job
>working her ass off, claiming her job is fun and interesting when she wears a wrist support splint for carpal
>>943333
cont.
>literally has repetitive strain injury from a shit tier repetitive job
>calls it refreshing and interesting
so the conclusion I made was that obviously working at maccas is a shit tier job and the worst possible thing to ever happen to her.
do what makes you happy. follow your dreams.
all too often miserable faggots will spout mystical non-sequiturs trying to justify their life choice of knocking up some girl right after highschool as some kind of wisdom. I call this logical fallacy ecce homo. "behold the man." faggots will try to stop you from finding happiness, being so deluded by their own need to convince themselves that they have made the right choice by chanting this.
>but anon you must get job
>have children
>raise children
>then you will be happy
>take place in circle of life anon
>adulthood is defined this way anon
it will turn you into a hollow shell of yourself.
first learn to express yourself in whatever way you can. for me I am learning to just stop and write down all the crazy fantasies and ideas that I have instead of just forgetting them. THEN work on a way to translate that creativity into money. otherwise you will end up in dream killing electronics store.
>>942877
Look around, invest in a wider width or buy a depth stretcher and a width stretcher for shoes and Cadillac shoe stretch.
Leave them on the stretcher for a week and you'll have plenty of room.
Trying to tough through is only going to irritate them even more.
i am a business analyst for a 3PL.
former fork lift driver
I make less now, because I am salaried management.
but the upside is i dont work 80 hr a week
Hvac tech, union. I like it.
>>943333
Anon. You said you were smart and you've had jobs literally so boring that you couldn't perform them.
Imagine being dumb. Imagine being dumb enough that being a fry cook is challenging some days. That is very likely the limit of her intelligence if she's been there for seven years.
>>943355
she finished highschool, got into university but quit after a semester and she reads for leisure. I took her on a tour of public art after dinner and she was clued in when I was explaining stuff to her, caught on quick. I dont think she is stupid.
I dated/fucked an actual girl with a severe intellectual disability once. the sex was fantastic but anything too complex went completely over her head and she just smiled and sucked my cock to avoid conversation and to make me happy.
dead end jobs are a trap.
>>943358
>dead end jobs are a trap.
Only a trap if you think so. Or never spend any extra effort to expand or leave.
>>943372
I did.
but its a hard choice. there are many jobs where there is no chance for upward mobility. once you get used to making money it's very hard to quit your job and move on, get retrained. especially if you need to pay rent and bills.
Labouring/Carpenter
UK
>>937812
Take your life in your hands and do what you want
>>938456
Where are you, UK bro here
Did security for 3 years, clubs, pubs, venues..
Studying carpentry/joinery in college and currently a labourer lugging shit and cleaning shit doing everyones dirty work in return for experience with their individual trades
Get your CSCS card if UK
If American hang yourself
Chemist (Not a pharmacist) with a minor in chemical engineering. Working as a research chemist at an innovation institute.
>>943333
>dexamphetamine
Thanks but I'm fine, I'm not a Stephen Hawking but I can learn pretty quick. During my high school time I also went to the psychologist a couple of times to helping me choosing what I should follow as a career, and during the IQ and capacity tests I scored slightly above average results, something like 120 IIRC. My only problem is the laziness and accepting orders from others, I just like doing things in my own way, which crashes with the working market.
I'll just give it couple more months and then decide what to really do with my life. I either go back study and at least finish high school in some manual trade course or pack up my shit and go travel a year or so with the money that I have. No worries.
IT stuff and electronics.
At the moment I call myself 'senior project manager'. Or 'Consultant' or 'trainer/instructor' or 'team lead' or 'service unit lead' with additional 'senior' or 'principal' or whatever is needed.
Basically I'm a story teller and therapist to ensure that two or more departments/teams/persons understand each other in IT projects.
the track being installed with some of the first layer with the finished sanded smooth
also saw some historical stuff like the elevator cable for the Eiffel tower that some guy on a graduation night climbed on top of the elevator and rode it to the top and got crushed and was tangled up in the cable. the cable is just laying in the woods next to the brake line for the beast.
>>941495
we do use that kind of wood for the top layer of the track. its a bitch to work with you have to pre drill every nail because you would never drive one in without one. the son of the beast had a lot of that kind of wood. fun fact they bought the interior grade wood and it swelled like a mother fucker
Fire captain. Going on 14 years as a firefighter. Just got promoted to captain last spring though.
>>940206
TAYLOR?
>>937866
Good luck, you sound like a really decent guy and I hope this works out for you bro
Chemical engineer for a company that upgrades byproducts of paper mills.
I bend hockey sticks into the right shape and also have small business making wrought iron buttocks
>>940154
Give apprentice please
>>943333
>dexamphetamine
so baby ritalin?
>>937811
LabVIEW?
EE here.
>>937591
https://encipher.it?DHvQ
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>>938254
cocksucker
>>943971
The programming I do is C/Assembly at the firmware level.
IMHO Labview is never used outside of university lab projects. That's the only place I've ever seen it used and I've done a little of everything in my career.
>>941737
Wicked..... cool
Industrial Designer.
Kind of fell into that nomenclature, as it pretty much means I make anything and everything, or at the very least project manage.
I just started a CNC fab/industrial design business with a friend, we are looking at it as more of a branding lab, where we can make all sorts of whatever we want. Looking to break into the public sculpture game soon.
My background is in carpentry, finish and structure, steel/welding structural and aesthetic.
Just built a parklett but the client was too much of a cheap ass to get it powdercoated..... I tried to clear coat but it rusted anyways,(like I expected, its El nina year) no other option but to use a rust reformer then paint lol.....
Teaming up with a buddy who has a pretty good sized laser cutter to share a shop, should have some sweet shit out soon.
Production machinist~specializing in precision gears
>>937591
I'm a commercial Glazier.
>>944183
>forgot pic
This was taken in the Cincinnati area OP, right outside Hyde park.
Habitat technician here. The company I work for take abandoned agricultural land or streams wrecked by development and turn it into God tier fish/wildlife habitat. Lots of fun. Would recommend
Arcade game technician.
I started off with zero education in the field, and it was a tough adjustment when I got started. Had to relearn troubleshooting basics, mostly because I was self-taught and needed to understand parts and tools better. There were a lot of times when I didn't know what a tool was called or what it was actually for, only what I had been able to use it for in the past. Thankfully, the guys I worked with were willing to teach my little by little, so long as I worked hard to improve.
It's an interesting job; the industry has all different types of people to meet. The actual maintenance of the games isn't the difficult part, it's everything else that gets in the way of that. I've only been doing this for 3 years and these days I'm much more concerned with budget constraints and scheduling conflicts than actually fixing things. Shit, if all I had to do was come to work and fix things I would be a lot less stressed out.
Overall it's a nice job for someone who isn't educated in the field, but I don't want to do this for much longer. Need to get back in school, ASAP.
Service electrician for 3 years, I've seen some shit.
Those burnt fuses is from some apprentice deciding to take out the rail under the fuses while the main fuse is turned on. All on his own initiative... His face was black with soot and he was screaming while crawling away from the fusebox. It was a 500A fuse that went.
The pleb apprentice is the one to the left in the couch. Also a lot of other weirder things have happened but I don't take a picture of everything.
>>944246
darn, won't let me upload webm with sound. so you can't see the apprentice ;_;
>>944246
Jesus fucking Christ
Data analyst for a laundry company.
Not a small laundry, we do ~12T of laundry daily, and I'm supposed to bring us up from 98% deliveries on full and on time to 100%
Cool job though, light on data analysis, heavy on programming. Seems I'm now supposed to be some kind of plant support person, programming the folding machines to handle multiple types of different items is next on my to do list. Currently working on streamlining the production process from the washers to the ironers to ensure zero machine down time.
Studied maths, turns out I ended up using the practical skills that I learned while studying a lot more than anything else. Seriously, if you are reading this and are 18, learn to program a computer, even if it's just basic macros in excel you'd be surprised how useful it could be.
Pic semi related, we have two similar continuous batch washers
>>944189
>>944226
Fucking cool
>>943374
They really are, I spent three years going nowhere when I was 21. Fucking hell I wish I could have that time back. But I got comfortable, and used to doing my shit job. Completely my fault, really regret it.
>>944247
you have to remove the sound
theres tools to do it that are free
What qualifications do you need? Does it pay well?
>>937608
Mason, Ohio fag reporting in. Thanks for fixing my park anon.
>>943155
I do this. Work in a glasses retail shop. My last day is Thursday.
>>943681
Can confirm that that cable is there. I've snuck into the park a number of times from the back. Fun times.
>>937802
Elevators are super interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHf1vD5_b5I
How hard is it to become a TIG welder? I want to weld in Alaska to pay my way through college.
Also what is the general risk of losing a finger? My hands are really valuable for me (going to major in music) so I don't want to lose any.
>>944761
the only ways you really loose fingers as a welder is if you dont lotto, have an accident with a grinder or chop saw or putting your fingers in a pinch point
>>944761
TIG in Alaska? Wut? Do stick and get certified for pipe. TIG is used mainly in controlled environments, like manufacturing. The work in Alaska that PAYS is all outside where your shielding gas just gets blown away.
Stick and get certified.
