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I'm a wedding photographer. My dad was a wedding dj and I grew up around the wedding industry. I went to school for art and photography was my focus. Wedding photographer just made sense. I love what I do and I can't imagine anything else.

State government paper pusher

I'm an endlessly adjuncting philosophy professor. Going back to law school in the fall at age 38.

I'm a professional Bastard

Power ranger (erectrician)

Prep school teacher for international middle school kids hoping to go to an English-speaking high school.

Teach all the basic intro classes in an accelerated high school curriculum the semester before they attend high school so that when they get there the language barrier, new facts and different educational style doesn't crush them mercilessly.

Electrical Designer - HVAC switchboards & systems primarily

I work 400 hours a month in order to feed people that think I'm trying to kill them.

Correspondence delivery profesional

(postal worker)

Drive people to the hospital.

Statistician.

But the Simpsons lied to me. I have not been offered the opportunity to go to space.

Conference & Event Services for a local college.

(I didn't know what that meant until I started here, but essentially, we are the campus party planners)

I do customer service for a shipping company. Alot of my calls are just people complaining about how much this company sucks ( they are not wrong ) but work from home and put very little effort in my job and spend a lot of time gaming at work . I also have a morning job delivering news papers and amazon packages which I actually kind of like but does not have full time opportunities.

Construction carpenter. I do a majority of the tasks for building most structures. From rough structure to final touches I do a lot.

I helped design large-ish electrical grids. 30-100k cables

Without the actual calculation bits, unfortunately.

Not very interesting. Bad software. Management didn't really care about the problem. I was there so the problem was "managed" from their point of view.

Currently as intern at a municipality as financial advisor. Hoping to get a job from within the municipality.

I’m an engineer in a manufacturing environment

I work at a shipyard servicing and rebuilding engines.

I used to fix radios, does that count as IT? I would mostly just swap cards since everything's digitized now but every now and then I would get something old and have to jury rig it because the parts haven't been manufactured in over ten years.

Before that I worked at Target, before that I was in theatre, and I'm currently back in school.

Manufacturing

Law

Intermediate CS teacher

Does consulting for energy utilities helping them improve their mapping systems (GIS) count as IT? I do manage cloud infrastructure but also assist with all the various pieces and parts that go into digital maps and integrations.

Quality Director for a multinational manufacturing company