Sometimes on Lemmy these seem like the only jobs that actually exist, but I’m sure there’s a lot of people here with different and unusual lines of work.

  • arthurpizza@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I used to be a Janitor, and now I’m a web designer. I still go to trash businesses and make them all pretty.

  • Bilbo_Haggins@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Environmental engineer. I clean up chemical messes like oil spills, and make sure that the resulting land is safe enough for people to live on it.

    It’s fun and challenging, if somewhat depressing at times. Some things take a LONG time to clean up. On the plus side, I have great job security.

  • Vandals_handle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    After a long and lucrative IT career I got a certificate in Ecological Restoration. I now do land stewardship, monitoring and maintaining habitats. Literally outstanding in my field, or marsh, or scrubland…

  • FrowingFostek@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Sound and communications technician. I put cables in the walls, floors or ceilings for structured cabling projects.

    Not glamorous work but, I get to be in large buildings and, most of the time I work in climate controlled occupied space.

  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Customer Service Rep is my title

    CSR/AR/AP/Billing/IT is a lot closer to my actual workload

    Before that I worked in the yard doing propane repair, and my name starts with Ha- so if I ever make Assistant Manager, well, I’ll truly have become my childhood hero by complete fuckin accident.

    Oh, I also used to be the guy responsible for keeping the people living up in the hills near Redding, CA with power after the fires 2 years ago. During the 6 rivers lightning complex fire in 2022 I was within a few hundred feet of the fire break crews while I was 4x4ing up mountainsides to keep generators full of fuel.