[Closed] What do you do?

Official advice from my government employer is to not reveal my occupation on social media. 🤷‍♂️

Sometimes i ask myself the same question

Official advice from my government employer is to not reveal my occupation on social media.

I have been a cheese inventor. I have been a mouse wrangler. I once worked with radiation and chemicals and exotic, dangerous stuff. I now sit in front of a computer for most of the day.

Consultant/Design Engineer - Electrical building services (all the electrical guff that makes buildings work lol)

Take people on holiday.

I work for a building society that is, in many ways, nationwide.

IT, specifically Open Banking, FTW

I used to be a pusher of a pen and a shuffler of paper, but now I mainly just move a mouse around a pad and push a button occasionally.

Materials engineer at a car company. Used to make jewellery and bits for jet engines.

(Not the real HR) :/

Apparently you don't have to grow up. You can spend your life playing with felt tips 😀

I deliver/collect blood, stem cells and hospital samples.

Exotic chancer.

Lab manager for a gas production platform with a heavy focus on environmental sampling and compliance.

I'm also a GasSafe heating engineer/plumber when the fancy takes me.

IT consultant*, not that that narrows it down much. I think everyone imagines a different think when they hear this.

* part time, don't tell my employers...

I work for a building society that is, in many ways, nationwide.

IT, specifically Open Banking, FTW

I have been on your site, I may have even met you.

I'm a Project Manager for an Engineering/Manufacturing Multinational.
The bit I work for designs and builds cooling systems and refrigeration plant for Naval Ships and Submarines.
70% of the role involves playing with Spreadsheets/project plans/dull documentation - whereas the other 30% involves getting involved with building/testing - this is a the bit i enjoy the most, and the reason i'm not really interested in a promotion.

This thread demonstrates the opening point of the other thread. Most people have incredibly boring jobs!

I repair broken things in a plasterboard manufacturing plant.

Ex pawnbroker, insurance analyst and neuro rehab coach.

I used to be a part time Lowell George impersonator, but my hair fell out.

I have been on your site, I may have even met you.

I believe you were there at the time of The Great Coconut Water Giveaway.

Do you work for the, er big blue, consultancy? I've worked with a lot of them.

This thread demonstrates the opening point of the other thread. Most people have incredibly boring jobs!

As a fella once said to me when I were a young whippersnapper complaining about something I'd been asked to do - nearly all jobs are boring, if they were fun they wouldn't have to pay you.

I drive a neenaa, look after people who drive neenaas, watch on a screen where neenas are, help people needing a neenaa get one quicker and occasional tell people they don’t need a neenaa and to use their car.

My official job title is ‘Reader’.

Also in Open Banking 😳 Thinking of starting a mountain biking forum for IT people in open banking now.

Microbiology lab technician - NHS. Spent this morning prepping toe nails, will spend this afternoon identifying fungi.

Currently full time house elf who gets out for walks and rides once he's fulfilled his duties.

Until recently Outdoor Access Officer, previously Primary Teacher, previous to that Public Rights of Way Officer.

Play with chainsaws and dig holes in the woods

I develop new medicines for lots of nasty diseases (including COVID). In my spare time I also advise on COVID to some people you will have heard of. I also provide expert witness to athletes accused of doping (some of whom you may have heard of - one rides a bike and another is off to Wembley later this month).

nearly all jobs are boring

This is true (sometimes). I've read about five summaries of must-have-exciting new drug opportunities today. They all start to look the same after a while!

My company welcomes identification on Social Media: disclaimer, all opinions are my own not those of GlaxoSmithKline.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Howard_(wrestler)

When I’m not pretending to be a wrestler, I do sales support for a corporate window cleaning and building maintenance company.

Official advice from my government employer is to not reveal my occupation on social media.

Used to have that (before the internet) as we were working on MoD stuff and the site could become an IRA target if anyone knew what we really did.

I now design Telecoms networks or rather I design and write SW which does it for me (and others) and now mainly support the tools I developed which made my primary role redundant....

For those who care mainly VBA and bash. The VBA bit is a classic example of scope creep where a few 20 line macros written 15 years ago have morphed into a 200k+ line monster from my id which won't die.....

Originally trained as a mechanic, then college/uni for Electronic/Mechanical engineering degree, worked at gates power transmissions for a while, rode my bike for a few years then worked as a chocolatier for 10 years, don't work anymore due to spms so I guess i'm a professional Internet forum bum living on benefits.

This thread demonstrates the opening point of the other thread. Most people have incredibly boring jobs!

Boring jobs? None could be as exciting, enthralling and captivating as my job in Strategic Network Design for Sewers.  I am a hit at dinner parties.

I encourage people to jump off cliffs.

Like Molegrips IT consultant*, but from memory in a very different way (it's meaningless really).

Specifically I advise on Cyber Security, mostly by convincing people to buy our Managed Service. I also consult on hardware, networking kit etc. In a more honest world I'd be called Technical Sales or something, but specifically in the UK people hear the word "sales" and assume "con man". I've got very many industry qualifications for the Security side of things, but I'm so often shouted down by IT hobbyists, I will almost never get involved in IT stuff on here, that and it's boring.

Formally I was a Relationship Manager, Underwriter and Fraud Prevention person for RBS, again, apart from the fact I've not bothered to a keep up to date on it since I left, I have an understanding of UK banking rules and more than a laymen's understanding of Economics.

Combined I have a better than average understanding of bank security, but it's not really my field.

My official job title is ‘Reader’.

Lecturer at Oxbridge?

In a more honest world I’d be called Technical Sales or something,

Yep, done a lot of that in various roles - fitting the product to the customer's need / application on a case by case basis.

My official job title is ‘Reader’.

Lecturer at Oxbridge?

Nah, meters 😉

Recruitment, in financial services and insurance.

Vaguely interesting to a small few, suitably dull for everyone else.

Nah, meters 😉

Very good!

must-have-exciting new drug opportunities today.

I think the most overused, and inaccurately used, word in the work environment is 'exciting'.

I train lawyers on how to make their computers work.

Operations Manager for a Composite Company.

Mostly making carbon fibre panels/components for premium road cars, motorsport, aerospace and occasionally high end furniture.

Rocket surgeon...

I design/project engineer commercial, industrial & high end residential boiler, chp & generator exhausts and the last thing I want to talk about at parties is why your poxy wood burner doesn't draw properly.

my job in Strategic Network Design for Sewers. I am a hit at dinner parties.

I'll bet that gets the waters flowing.

Boring here. Reviewing performance of LA services to give an indication of how poorly they're performing, while pretending to know a few things about spreadsheets.

Gusset inspector

I just say "IT Sales" and the conversation quickly moves on.

Brain Scientist. Test pilot at the weekend.

I used to wear a lot of green and lob artillery shells about, then ran around with an odd shaped ball being a big man trying to fit through a small gap... now i investigate road traffic accident insurance fraud, which sounds like it could be vaguely exciting... but isn't.

I'm retired from what I once did.

I have a life-long skill in a specialist area that means I'm occasionally asked to train or mentor novices needing to gain experience in that skill/specialism/hobby.

Every so often that skill can mean I'm called on to do a bit of contract work which makes it a paying hobby I suppose.

I spend most of my ordinary day either recording song parts for members of a choir who don't read music to rehearse/learn their parts, or learning my parts for that and another couple of choirs, or learning the bass and guitar.

sounds like it could be vaguely exciting

Nope! 😀

I don't know..but money arrives in my account each month.

I’m a ‘repetitive artist’, I keep drawing my pension.

Professional Services Consultant - which looking at it in isolation means absolutely nothing. I implement ERP software for a company that sells ERP software among other things.

I encourage people to jump off cliffs.

Base jumping / paragliding instructor?

Coasteering?

I used to mess around with mud and rocks (and water). I know sit behind a computer describing what is likely to happen when other people mess with mud and rocks, (and water). Great !

I tell pilots where to fly their planes whilst not letting them get too close to each other. And let them use my airport.

I actually quite enjoy it, I’d rather not have to work but I can’t think of anything (realistically) that I’d rather be doing 🙂

Technical sales for a global sensor company.

My name is Ethel and I’m an Aardvark

Read and write about bikes on the internet.

No really.

his thread demonstrates the opening point of the other thread. Most people have incredibly boring jobs!

Isn't pretty much everyone else's job boring to people who are doing different jobs?

The problem I have is that it's challenging to explain technical roles in a bite-sized manner to non-technical people. My stock answer for the last three decades has been "I work with computers" and then either the person asking is a programmer or something so asks a follow-up question, or they're a plumber and they either change the subject or tell me theirs is really slow. Over the years that catch-all has covered everything from front-line technical support to IT consultant to infrastructure engineer to technical manager to a few others.

Today I work in Cyber Security (which is a hateful bloody term). I've experimented answering the question with "hacker" but that rarely garners a positive reaction 😁. My official job title is Subject Matter Expert, which is meaningless to anyone outside of SecOps.

STW seemingly has an expert on everything and any question asked usually gets an answer from someone who works in that specific field, however obscure.

Is this referencing the extractor fan thread?

I'm a regional manager for a group of Children's homes looking after children with severe trauma and behaviour issues. That gets exciting sometimes, but a lot of my job is behind a computer, as most are! The higher you go the further away from what you wanted to do and were good at you get!

Time served electrician mostly industrial and commercial installs initially.

Then moved into the exciting world of mobile telecoms, mainly installs. Was also trained up to do some climbing and rigging work

Got headhunted for my electrical skills by the nations' favourite landline provider, to work on a mobile contract they had 'won'.

Still work for them but I'm now a switch engineer sub-contracted to Branson's telecoms company!

Looking forward to them eventually removing the TDM switches and see what awaits me after that.

My official job title is Subject Matter Expert, which is meaningless to anyone outside of SecOps

I would've thought it would be meaningless to anyone who doesn't know what the subject matter is.

Stcolin do you do pressure sensors for hydrogen?

I try to tell people how to make more robots. This should involve robots making robots, but it's not actually that exciting.

I used to make big bubbles in the ocean and listen to their echoes.

I also used to see how much the water companies had diluted the poo before pumping it into a river near you.

Senior occupational therapist with the NHS; specialised in rehabilitation within forensic mental health (My patients are detained under the Mental Health Act and also by the Ministry of Justice.

Currently signed off with burnout/work-related stress/depression... make of that what you will!

I also used to see how much the water companies had diluted the poo before pumping it into a river near you.

I used to fill up bottles of diluted poo from sewage works, for the EA.

Then I used to fix databases showing what was in the bottles.

I tell pilots where to fly their planes whilst not letting them get too close to each other. And let them use my airport.

I got as far as an assessment day for that, probably failed when too many of the arrows on my screen flew into each other. It was possibly a job I wasn't suited for.

Stcolin do you do pressure sensors for hydrogen?

Unfortunately not. We do have process automation products, but not pressure. I'm involved in factory automation, so inductive, photoelectric, ultrasonic etc.

Been doing this over 20 years now, and often found wondering if I can get away from sales and more involved in something more technical.

semi-retired freelance technical artist, I knock out shit in c++ to do shit like this...

I used to fill up bottles of diluted poo from sewage works, for the EA.

Yup

Then I used to fix databases showing what was in the bottles.

Above my paygrade at the time

Freelance magazine editor / designer.

Ad designer and production manager for a group of 3 local newspapers in which I have share. Plus researching areas for new titles.

SERCO zero hour contractee working in fringe roles relating to COVID. I could tell you more but then I’d have to cough on you.

Oh, and technically I’m retired.

Software developer for a company that makes doors.

And part-time drummer

I teach people to do things in building automation which is dull. I also teach people how to ski, which is ace.

TMy official job title is Subject Matter Expert, which is meaningless to anyone outside of SecOps

I would’ve thought it would be meaningless to anyone who doesn’t know what the subject matter is.

It's "Systems."

I used to fill up bottles of diluted poo from sewage works, for the EA.

They'll sell anything for micropayments.

Coasteering?

That. And canoe and bike guiding and instructing. But the cliff bit is the most fun!

Business Consultant (mostly IT)

[i]I work for a building society that is, in many ways, nationwide.
IT, specifically Open Banking, FTW

I have been on your site, I may have even met you.[/i]

I met IHN when working on his site. I started a thread on STW to see if anyone was in the area who could lead me on a ride and it turned out he was sat on the desk behind me. Hi There 🙂 !

I also worked at GSK R&D so might have seen/been seen by TIRed if based in Stevenage

Software engineer and AWS architect/support for the research and statistics department at Liverpool Football Club.... we decide who to buy, who to sell, and analyse football matches in ridiculous detail 🙂

Test & Validation Engineer on automotive in-wheel electric motors.

Previously worldwide Service & Calibration tech on large-scale ultrasonic C-scan systems, mostly within the aviation industry.

I'm a Delivery Relationship Lead.

You work it out (and let me know).