I work in IT and we have truly self steering teams without formal hierarchy. Not everyone is used to it and IT people can be interesting characters, so it’s quite a process to get the team to perform well.
I work at a small MSP. Things work pretty well considering how little long term planning happens. We’re good at ignoring embers, but great at putting out fires.
Not a job but a internship that recently ended.
Helping Ex-entrepreneurs with getting their administration right and filling taxes for them (with them). The unfortunate thing is that they’re usually heavily in debt, varies between 15k to 80k.
After we help them, they can go into an official project - to help them pay the debt for 3 years and the rest will be waived.
However the interesting part is majority of these people refuse to actually participate well. Often not coming to appointments, refusing to pick up calls or text back. Even though what we do is free. They don’t have to pay anything for our help.
The amazing thing is whenever we actually manage to help people, some of them really show gratitude. Such as baking stuff for us, purchase cake and such. One time, a woman even cried out of gratitude and another time told me his life story which was wild (as in nearly died but stayed alive).
It was an stressful but very interesting internship.
well, I’m still in the training process, but I’ll be drawing blood. I think that’s interesting as hell!
Sounds cool but I draw like a preschooler.
Professional vampire. Noice
Seeing how the banking industry runs on the inside. I work in ATM rigging. Banks operate in a state of complete chaos if you were wondering. I’ve never seen an industry where money wasted/lost just doesnt matter to them. Join a credit union. Seriously.
That i get to travel Australia to all these remote places.
And i get to go on container ships sometimes and always get lost
The online training videos at my workplace use the same artificial lady voice as the tutorial lady voice in the game Hypnospace Outlaw.
For people at large, nothing. I’m a data engineer. Eyes immediately gloss over when I tell them. I do have a tool that is a one stop shop potential violation of PII rules.
What’s PII?
Personally identifying information.
From an outsider’s perspective it would be the places that I work - which I am not going to reveal in any detail to avoid doxing myself, but include nationally and internationally important historical and archaeological sites.
From my perspective, although they are certainly interesting and I love working at them, it doesn’t play a particularly prominent role in what I do day-to-day, so it would be the wide range of problem solving involved: I lead a team dealing with maintenance, compliance and health & safety for a national charity.
My efforts reduce time spent in incidents for on call engineers. I actively allow them to work less, and they usually fight me on it, hahaha.
I’m an automation engineer working for a large cloud operator.
I’m a software engineer on a team that is known around the org to have the worst on-call load out of anyone else. You are definitely underappreciated if your work saves them lots of time!
I get to have perks cuz no one can get any work done nowadays withough an IT department.
I design lots of things that go to space
Do I need one or two of my ADD pills to make this shit bearable
I film blind people for a living. Hearing their stories is always so inspiring.
I also film puppies, so could be worse!
I get to play with pills
I’m a software dev, but I also do all the design architecture and infrastructure work. I like that there are new problems to aolve every day so it doesnt get so boring.
