Just Curious - What's Everyone's Profession Here???

Maintenance engineer for a major window manufacturer.

Previously I worked in Healthcare in various different roles.

Hey I’m a billionaire space cowboy. We probably know the same guys. Do you Bob, from accounting? He’s a putz.

For one thing, the pay is shit. For another, it's at a gas station/convenenience store (corner shop) so I indirectly work for the fossil fuel industry. The fossil fuel industry sure makes the world a worse place.

Basically land use. You?

That you, Maurice?

Super interesting! Do you work for a government entity? Would that be the place to start looking at opportunities?

Schools have gone the same way. Admin only cares about how much we can bill Medicaid - none of the $ trickles down to us and there's little/no concern for kids who are struggling.

Mechanical Engineer. 14 years in automotive interiors. I design tooling for instrument panel toppers, door uppers, arm rests, etc.

Primarily, the type of tooling I specialize in is known as edge wrapping or edge folding. Basically, you have the plastic "substrate" and the leather or vinyl "skin" that is either vacuum formed or press laminated to it. Extra material is left around the edges, and that is heated, wrapped, and glued around the back of the part with a number of metal fingers. I do the wrapping tooling, as well as the lamination tooling.

The most complicated tool I ever designed was for a large, flat component behind the back seat of a car, by the rear window. Let me walk you through the sequence for it.

Operator loads plastic substrate in tool upper
Operator loads flat skin pattern in the lower on skin pins, and a clamp in the rear
The infrared heating shuttle moves in and the upper closes to the heating position, where the skin and substrate are blasted with tens of thousands of watts of IR heat to activate the glue
The IR shuttle retracts, and the tool fully closes to the lamination position, and the skin pins all retract. In the case of this tool, it had (I think) 0.25mm of compression a-side of the part.
Seven slides extend to laminated areas that were either undercut in tool draw, or protruded in a way that prohibited skin loading.
Three 200C hot air heaters extend down from the upper to heat the back edge of the part, and around the two speaker openings.
Once those retracts, 25 edgefolding pieces wipe the skin around the back, and up through the speaker openings (that's the coolest part)
The edgefolders retract in the reverse sequence of which they extended
The slides retracts
The tool opens, and the skin pins extend
* the Operator can now step in the light curtain to remove the part, then return with the new substrate and skin.

So far, I would say it is the pinnacle of my career. But car parts are getting more complicated all the time. My design focuses lately have been focused on simplicity over that level of complexity. Where can we use a guided cylinder where we used to use linear rails? Can this detail be made in multiple pieces to reduce waste material? What components can be 3D printed? It's great fun, really. I do love my job.

OK, respect for taking responsibility, but I don't consider cashier at a gas station to be a job responsible for climate change. At a certain point we all have to participate in the system to not starve. That is by design. So again: don't beat yourself up too much about it. Vote, demonstrate, but cashier is not a job I see one should be ashamed for.

Opened a consulting business a couple years ago, a solo thing. Before that 15 years in energy tech product.

I'm herding electrons. AKA I design chips for isosychronous low-latency networks.

Software developer

I thought there'd be more of us...

interesting how long did you go from coding bootcamp to getting a job in digital accessibility?

nothing wrong with that, one of the chain "bougie eco grocery stores" chronically have cashiers understaff, recently heard they cutting the budget and rotating through employee like paper. just to put you at ease, there are people that dont have jobs now and constantly complaining about finances for some reason(they refuse to take any jobs, aka cherry picking). alot of stories/posts about this on other platforms.

hey there is a french guy on youtube that makes a living of whipping and performing various acts, in a medieval type setting.

you want more devs go to devrant

it's a nice little community similar to lemmy.