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Everyone with your exact job title in your industry vanishes, how long until awful things happen? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by ericbomb@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I'm a support engineer for dental software. So difficult issues won't get immediate resolutions, and instead development will actually have to fix things because offices will be crying at them for a fix instead of at me.

But the world won't end.

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[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I could best be described as an "emergency draftsman". And potential damage could be far reaching in scale.

I work for a company that, among other things, makes replacement parts for things like power plants, chemical plants, any large industrial installation. In many cases, the thing that breaks is a one of a kind part, or something last manufactured in the 1960's, or some other thing that you aren't going to be able to just go buy a replacement. So what happens is someone will occasionally drop a broken something or other on my desk, and I have to figure out what it used to look like, then make a 3d model and a drawing of the part so it can be reproduced.

[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Ahh so you're who is keeping all thr cold war stuff running!

[-] Hanabie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

That actually sounds like a fun job.

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's not bad, but it can be boring.

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