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.

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      Ain’t that how all professional service are nowadays.

      Doctors is the last gig and it is getting gutted as we speak.

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        Facts. I was talking to my doctor who is moving to Denver for another job soon. He was telling me how bad it was getting.

        The hospital+clinics are forcing them to spend less time with patients,overbooking their schedules, and ordering tests that aren’t medically necessary to get the most out of a patient.

        He’s leaving for a private practice job that’ll allow him to have more say so, it’s sad those who have been with him for the last 10+ years won’t benefit from him being around anymore.

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      I disagree, I’m an engineer and I prefer it over not engineering positions. My only ragret is not keeping up with coding since it was my favorite subject in college

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        Do you feel like you could use coding in your daily business or is it just an interest you would like to pursue?

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        Maybe it’s my job, but I feel like I haven’t had a job in the last decade that I really enjoyed. I might just be getting older and jaded.

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      That’s why I went backwards from SE back to IT. I enjoy working with people directly and helping them. It’s also a hell of a lot easier in terms of hours and crunches (we have no crunches).

      Basically, I had to decide whether I wanted the money and “glamour” of working on a well-known hot project or to be generally happy with my life. I’m a lot happier now.

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    Wastewater-based epidemiology. Basically we track infectious diseases in wastewater, and the results guide public health decisions.

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      As someone who is doing disaster response consulting for healthcare and public health: I fucking love you guys. You make my job sooo much easier.

      Seriously.

      The surveillance you folks do is pretty much indisputable and far more incorruptible compared to everything else we do, in healthcare especially.

      Very often you are my “discussion ending gun” when decision makers endlessly want me to prove their (flawed) point of view. A “nope, here are validated wastewater based numbers, you are wrong” is extremely satisfying sometimes.

      Thanks folks!

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        Love to hear it! 2 years ago I had no idea that I’d be working with wastewater but here I am now!

        Anyone out here reading this, write to your senator about increasing funding to public health!

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        Actually COVID is one of the most used tests they do, at least around here. But you can do things like drug use, cancer epidemiology (for some cancers), etc. as well - and that is incredibly helpful from a public health point of view.

        Because it’s just like with Covid - we can’t get proper data from patient sided tests because we can’t test everyone. And even if we could,not everyone would.

        But everybody poops/pees. And guys like OP interpolate from that.

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        As Philpo said, we mainly do covid, but we can do Norovirus, which is a common GI virus that can give you the shits.

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      Nice! I’m a trim carpenter and I work in historic preservation. I’m a project manager now but I worked my way up from laborer.

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    When people work with hazardous materials, they hire me to make sure they do it safely or legally. I mostly work in waste handling, soil remediations and laboratories.

    It’s pretty fun and interesting, but it’s been very bad for my enjoyment of homegrown food, swimming outdoors or going downwind of any industrial sites.

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        Did anyone else notice that every single one of those business cards had “acquisitions” spelled incorrectly?

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          And it doesn’t have a watermark, or most of the other stuff described. Bateman and everyone else at that table are a bunch of idiots who have no clue what they are talking about.

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    OP clearly just wanted an excuse to show off their vast collection of response images…

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    I used to work at a place that made envelopes and printed forms.

    Fascinating seeing 12 foot tall stacks of rolls of paper.

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        Me too, right when the digital age was taking over. I was young so they had me help design display ads in illustrator. We’d print out the ads with the articles on a laser printer. Cut them and arrange on a page that was then photographed. It was the future back then lol.

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    Im an electrician, it’s pretty sweet if you ask me. Not necessarily the job itself, but the money you can earn doing side-jobs

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        Heh. I have an electrician friend who likes to say the biggest hazard in his line of work is other electricians’ work.

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          It’s my experience in technical professions that many people consider their improvised solutions to be clever and thoughtful, and other peoples’ to be shoddy and dangerous.

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      Are these side jobs under the table or things you actually have to get permits for? I’ve known a few people who do the former and it can be really lucrative

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        Depends really, some you just kind of go in and do, get paid, and head out. Some you have to properly sit down and get it inspected.

        Keep in mind though that I am a baby electrician, I’ve only got like 6-7 months experience, so I might not be the best person to ask about this.

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    I’m a therapist, and I train other therapists. And I supervise some therapists and I train other therapists to supervise other therapists. And I manage a team of therapists who train other therapists and who train other therapists to supervise other therapists.

    Kind “in it” at this stage.

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      Wow you’re pretty high up there. So that sounds like you are yourself a supervisor and supervisor educator and supervisor educators’ supervisor? Like some kind of a consulting group where my supervisors probably got trained? I don’t actually know who does the licensing for supervisor status - I’m guessing it’s just like the entry level where you have to get hours from anywhere that the state board vetted and stamped off on? It’s so interesting to me how state licensure has such a long relationship with private entities.

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        I’m in the UK so it’s a different structure than the US, and the role is different too, less overlap with the medical approach.

        Most of what we so is training counsellors, the training of qualified counsellors in how to provide clinical supervision is a small part of it.

        We’re a private training company, doing counselling, legal, medical and accounting. I work for the counselling part of course.

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          Very cool! Wish there were more of us on here. r/therapists is still one of the main reasons I use Reddit. Well, uh, I guess you and I could talk? But at that point, with you as a super-super and me as a first-year post-grad, it would just sound like shoddy anonymous online supervision!

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            I’m up for that!

            I doubt I could get to know you the way a supervisor would, doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be worthwhile for both of us.

            Talking with colleagues is always a joy. I’m leaving today for a long weekend, hanging out with a dozen counsellors for a person centred encounter group.

            Hopefully very restful being in an environment saturated in the core conditions 😁

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              I love that idea too! We just gotta create a space for it, I guess. Boy do I have things to say… my facility’s CEO took his life this weekend and it’s been a mad scramble. Only in In-patient!