Ask Lemmy

Former machine learning researcher. Worked on image search, then language modeling for general search. But then VC started throwing money at it and the landscape just kinda' changed. The research was still great in academia, but a bunch of dipshits took a useful technology and decided to use it as a way to funnel money from everyone into their own coffers.

Now I build stuff to monitor power lines and prevent wildfires.

One thing people don't usually expect: machine learning isn't magic. The computer doesn't just "do the work for you". There's a lot of planning, theory, and experimentation around seeing if and why something works.

Was a wage slave all my life until I retired. The best I could do in life is sell my time for money. I didn't care who I sold it to.

I was a special education teacher in an inner city school district for 11 years. I started in high school my first year and then went to elementary the last 10. It was to weird being 22 teaching 17 year olds.

Anyways, did 3-4 for a couple years, then 5-6 a couple years, finished in k-1. I was diagnosed with kidney failure a few years ago and retired early because I'm on dialysis. I invested very well so I'm good financially, but I miss working with kids, not so much getting fucked over by the school district, but that's a wother thing.

I studied bioinformatics, got into IT, got pushed into sales, got out cause I hated that. Now I'm a barkeeper. Not yet sure what I'll do next. Maybe IT again, if I find a company that sucks less.

Also the sysadmin for a small non-profit, which is a lot more fun than any corporate job I had.

Stay at home dad 😊

Cybersecurity (AppSec), was a software engineer for many years before that.

One day there was an incident and I tended to the recovery…

Junior researcher in food microbiology, with a background in general food technology.

Figuring out cheaper ways to enrich foods using microbial producers.

Railway signal maintainer.

I take care of crossing warning devices, switch machines, signals, track circuits, and wayside hazard detectors.

Nice try, FBI.

I'm a professional pedant, but it's only seasonal part time work.

I'm in education. It's pretty alright. The kids aren't alright, though.

City bus driver. It's not the most exciting job I've ever had, but it's a union shop(which really kicks ass!!!), has steady hours, pension, vacation/sick days, and healthcare.

It can be infuriating dealing with people who definitely do not have their shit in a pile. But it also feels really good being there for the community. I'll probably stick with it for a bit.

I'm a software engineer and it feels gross to say for some reason

I'm just a poser though, because I have no thigh-highs

I am a master of the custodial arts.

I’ve been in the animation industry for 15yrs. Mostly in the commercial space, so nothing for movies.

automated machine design. mostly automotive crap.

sure does pay the bills what with the always available overtime, but it also has a shit effect on hobbies because (1) there's only so many hours a week you can spend using a kb/m and at a desk, and more work cuts into gaming, (2) there's only so many hours you can spend staring at a screen, so more work cuts into gaming or other media, and (3) when your day job is designing machines and solving problems, more of that cuts into playing Minecraft or Factorio or something because hey that's like the exact same type of thinking.

there's a reason so many engineers are into climbing, cycling, camping, woodworking etc

Pseudo-pilot/simulator operator for the Norwegian air navigation safety provider, Avinor. It's a quiet life, but the hours are humane and it doesn't require a medical certificate (which I lost after having a li'l stroke some 15 months ago).

Full stack developer. Our stack is soggy cheese.

Freelance artist. Make 2D and 3D digital art.

Commissions are mostly furry. Because of course. But I'm working on a sci-fi universe, and I practice a lot of 3D modelling with Bionicles.

Software Engineer

Marketing. Sorry about all the emails and texts.

In the middle running away from tech (10+ years) to join the circus.

911 call-taker

Used to be cop.

Went into a completely unrelated line of work purely because it was remote, promoted from there.