What's Your Job IRL?

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  1. FallingObjects

    FallingObjects Pay It Forward

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    Grahad2 Red eyes from too much anime

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    Well if you cross over to AI or ML you get more math and more programming! Hopefully your students are using something like a Raspberry Pi and OpenCV.
     
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    I'm a process operator with a background in engineering, currently commissioning a new potash plant which I will work at permanently upon completion.

    I enjoy operations/production but I also really enjoy instrumentation and controls as well, I like the nitty gritty details.
     
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    I make automotive and travel-related commercials and tv. If anyone's interested in some car porn, here's the company demo reel we just put out
     
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    gixxerwimp Professional tricycle rider

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    Love Chris Harris videos, despite his wanton destruction of perfectly good tires.
     
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    i fxied stone in people's backyard, sometimes havta creat a little pool for little fishes
     
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    Software Architect, retired after 25 years at Adobe (mainly FrameMaker, PDF and CQ, but there's also some of my stuff in Photoshop and In Design).
     
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    Metrologist, did it for 8 years in the Air Force before moving to emergency management. Now I'm in the civilian calibration world.
     
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    Boeing 767 captain for a DHL/Amazon Prime Air contractor, with a few passenger charter aircraft as well. I use a telex headset at work, the 850 that uses power from the mic jack for ANR. I tried using the Bose QC15 with a mic for awhile but something about it makes voices on VHF radio a little bit harder to understand. I need as much vocal clarity as possible when trying to decipher foreign air traffic control accents. Also since the 767 doesn't have a hot mic interphone system we genereally wear headsets with the inboard earcup behind the ear so we can speak to the other pilot, which is a lot easier with a telex than a bose QC15.
     
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    Air traffic controller in CYAV. Given that our longest runway is 3000 feet, I don't expect a 767 to be landing anytime soon. You speak of foreign ATC accents, my challenge is the Indian, Chinese and Korean students learning how to fly and how to speak english at the same time. Fun stuff!
     
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    I have a difficult time understanding female Korean and Japanese ATC particularly. Of course their English is much better than my Korean or Japanese, but they have a tendency to pronounce everything in a sing-song way, and that combined with the high pitch of the voices just makes it tough unless I concentrate carefully. Luckily, years of operating in and out of that part of the world allows your expectation bias to provide clues for deciphering, but that can lead to its own set of pitfalls. Canadian ATC is awesome though. ADS established and I'm good to go, well, at least back in my 747 days; the 767's at my operator are not so generously equipped.
     
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    Expectation bias can most certainly get both of us into trouble. "I could swear he/she said such and such...". No doubt you would have spoken with Winnipeg Centre. I live about 2NM straight west of that place. As for ADS, have you heard of the company https://aireon.com/ ? They've been putting up satellites and in 2018 they are set to go live with global ADS-B coverage. Pretty exciting times for aircraft surveillance.
     
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    Industrial/Product Designer but doing data viz work nowadays in a new job (learning Tableau/GIS/R right now!). I do use Illustrator/Photoshop/InDesign quite a bit so if anyone has questions I'd be happy to answer them if I can. I also used Solidworks/Keyshot a bit before but not often nowadays.
     
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    Sure! I've spoken with Winnipeg Centre a bit. In my 747 days, which I flew as an F/O from 2011-2015, Anchorage to Cincinnati or Chicago was something we did a lot. So, many hours on ADS with Edmonton and Winnipeg.

    In fact, I spent a US Thanksgiving in Winnipeg about 5 years ago. We flew a load of about 200 cows from Winnipeg to Astana, Kazakhstan in a 747 freighter (with a refueling stop in Keflavik, Iceland). The Kazakhs love Canadian livestock, and the japanese love to eat your horses; my company regularly flies horses from Canada to be slaughtered in Japan!
     
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    I can't remember if I responded to this thread previously so I guess my job isn't remembering things.

    I'm an agricultural economist. I mainly provide research to projects that aim to improve agriculture and livelihoods for farmers in developing countries in Africa and Asia. It's cool because I mix bouncing along dirt roads and talking with farmers around the world with sitting at my laptop looking at data, writing and listening to music (and stressing that it could sound better). Downside is it's not always obvious how much impact you may be having, even though ostensibly that's what I'm being paid to do.
     
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    gixxerwimp Professional tricycle rider

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    So that's where the meat in the bbq horse on a stick that I ate in Kyushu came from.
     
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    I'm working at a poorly run "startup", so I do all the photography, videography, graphic design, tech support and some marketing. Usually, I just tell people I'm a one-man art dept or ad agency. Just finished one of those full-stack bootcamp courses in an effort to get out of my current job.
     
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    Lead Backend Software Engineer at a health informatics startup. Quitting at the end of the month because the start up is very poorly run, and I'm not sure why I should bother being so stressed out for minimal pay.

    Probably will pick up a stable senior Java developer job for the next year or so until we move to the states.
     

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