It’s twice as fun when you have both : adhd

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I made cable filler (the stuff in the lines that goes under the ocean) for an Employee Owned Company.

It was the BEST job I ever had. Hit all the markers, AND we were respected as emoloyees being EO.

Left during the pandemic. The company.. tbh, tanked. My payout (not even close to what I could have walked with if I stayed til retirement) would have been 12k (after taxes/fees) the day I left. I had to wait 5 years to get my stock payout due to resigning. Walked with $2k. So.. I left right when the culture shifted, and though pissed at losing 10k, my leaving feels validated.

But I know I wont ever find work like that again. Yes im sad about it.

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

There will be more employee owned companies when we make them.

[–] 3daybanwithdrawl@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Try my life, autism + schizophrenia. That means I'm obsessed with my own schizophrenic hallucinations. Yay!

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Mechanic,

Every day is a new puzzle that at the end of the day fits into the box exactly as it should.

No matter how out there and strange the problem always makes sense at the end. It's so rewarding

Not to mention people are optional. Some of the best mechanics i know don't talk to customers they have a receptionist who deals with that

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

They're typically called Service Managers, not receptionists.

The good ones do a lot more than take info and pass it between the mechanics and customers. They know a lot about troubleshooting and can help give a ballpark estimate on cost and time. They also typically sell the general stuff like tires, brakes, batteries, etc.

Tho in some places they actually make more than the mechanics, cause they're there to upsell, not assist. You want to avoid those places as much as possible.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 points 7 hours ago

Yeah my bad service manager is the better wording.

Though to also play devils advocate as I know people who do it they literally have receptionist to just answer the phone and do nothing else.

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

The great service managers know what questions to ask. Customers say the dumbest things. It's the difference between a mechanic getting"Customer states it makes a womph womph sound sometimes." and "Customer states it makes a Womph Womph sound when they're trying to get on the highway." The first one could be anything the second one points to a transmission problem. The mechanic still needs to diagnose it, that's not the service managers job but they can make it a lot easier.

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Teaching meets all of these criteria. The one it doesn't meet is "make enough money to survive"

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It’s shameful how the US treats its teachers.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 hours ago

It's shameful that teachers are treated wildly differently based on zip code.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Engineer at a tech startup. Extremely fast-paced and nearly everything is resolved in a day. My train commute enforces strict boundaries on my working hours. It's like an episodic procedural TV show, except instead of finding a murderer I'm finding out why these widgets are wrong today.

[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 2 points 7 hours ago

Me too!

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 11 hours ago

This is universal human experience, right? Right??!

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago

Best reality can do is a boring predictable job where the only real variety is when you get bollocked and what for.

[–] python@lemmy.world 40 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

It's software development. You get your stupid little Jira tickets like little quests and you get to solve them however you see fit. And then they get put on the deployment belt and run through all the checking steps in a satisfyingly rigid way. And then you're done with them and you don't have to think about them ever again. It's the perfect cycle.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

It's perfect when you know the application inside and out. A completely different story when you get dropped into a project that uses sixteen frameworks and libraries, including widely employed features that are barely documented. You get to do guesswork on whether this pattern is recognised by that library, while your system is constantly swapping under the weight of dozens of browser tabs with the docs and StackOverflows.

[–] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

You cannot imagine how much must go correctly to end up in such a blessed state. And if the stars do align, enjoy every single one of those ephemeral minutes because inevitably, the PM leaves, there is a re-org, and the PM replacement who never touched jira before and has never delivered software is steering the team one week at a time without spending any time putting in the work to make jira smooth. I hate jira. It is a real skill (read: tolerance for bullshit) to arrange shit so that work is well organized. And it is massively missed when absent.

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You get a JIRA Ticket
“Customer says X doesn’t work”
Try to reproduce the issue
It clearly works
Get to find edge cases and do 10 roundtrips with customer

Many such cases

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Or, JIRA ticket: complete the entire 18 month project

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 1 points 8 hours ago

Honestly I don't mind this one that much. IFF it is well designed, the entire team is in the loop of what's to be done, and you don't get immediate unrealistic time pressure.
I've always preferred working on JIRA tickets that were meatier than having to work on 15 different tickets in one day. The context switch just eats a bit too much energy for me every time.

[–] zout@fedia.io 13 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Your mentioning of Jira alone gives me the shivers. For some project I had to use it, and it sends you like a hundred emails a week.

[–] fraksken@infosec.pub 17 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

That's easy, just filter them away in a separate folder and never look at them

[–] zout@fedia.io 6 points 15 hours ago

Yeah I know, but why do I have to jump through a hoop to get a normal user experience?

[–] Walop@sopuli.xyz 9 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I wish it was like this. But instead were getting tickets with barely a title. Or there's a report that the application misbehaves ones or twice per month with no reproduction steps, fix it. Or the delivery schedule is set, but there are no feature roadmap or milestones to track what is yet to be done and if we are on track. Or the project manager has got their position because they sucked at coding and the company couldn't figure out what else to do with them and you have to keep explaining basic technical decisions over and over to them. And everything will come back haunting you as long as you are in the company. One ticket keeps being resurrected for you because client keeps changing their mind on how it should work or keeps finding more esoteric edge cases. Or you're roped in to some legacy project over and over again, because you managed to do a minor fix for it two years ago and you're the only one left who has ever touched it.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I'm a manager with an engineering background, and this is exactly what good managers should solve for you. I love Jira but I know it sucks to configure correctly. Your problems are not because of Jira, but managers fucking up the process. But more than Jira (love it or hate it), this is about organization: People don't know how to do their jobs correctly, decisions not being made by the right people or the right time (or not at all), too much planning and not enough execution or vice versa, people not empowered to say no, all that stuff. Everybody always hates on management but it's a thankless and tough job to keep the whole operation running smoothly. It's like that old IT joke "everything is working already, what do I pay you for? vs nothing is working, what do I pay you for?"

[–] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

The curse of competence

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

So, it's an adventurer's life from your typical isekai. I see. Makes sense now. Only that the things asked are never clear, change midway, the finish conditions keep being altered, the validation at the end keeps being enforced differently or that 3 weeks later someone will ask about the thing done and you have zero memories of that place. Or that because you did it one time now it will always be pushed onto you, even when you don't want it anymore. All of this while slowly killing you on the inside. Yep. Perfect.

[–] Beth@piefed.social 3 points 9 hours ago

For my son it was working in the library. Quiet organizing, different every day.

[–] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 9 points 12 hours ago

And one which doesn't involve using a phone

[–] SparrowHawk@feddit.it 6 points 11 hours ago

Mail delivery honestly does it for me

[–] NecroticEuphoria@lemmy.ml 5 points 12 hours ago

Night shifts for me please!

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I think I’d like something that doesn’t make me wanna kill kyself.

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[–] nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 12 hours ago

I would take anything that I am able to do that doesn't make me want to die

[–] Sturgist@piefed.ca 6 points 14 hours ago

This is how I ended up sticking with stone masonry for like almost 20 years now.

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 18 hours ago

Cybersecurity was great for that before the AI-pocalypse.

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Try being a handyman, nearly perfect for getting new problems to solve, flexible, the project is usually done the same day if that's the scope of work you want, or take some bigger things if you want a project for a month.

Honestly pretty rewarding fixing things up, I'll never not get dopamine when I manage to get something ticking, or make a wall look nice, or whatever it is I'm trying to mend.

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[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 26 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Software testing checks all those boxes

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 13 points 19 hours ago (8 children)

so does accounting, oddly enough

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[–] taygaloocat@leminal.space 3 points 13 hours ago

Being a Security Technician has been pretty interesting. New places every day, different puzzles to solve, and mostly 7-3

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I've had a few solid options for my audhd ass.

video game QA testing
union organizing
dry lab genetic research

I seem to subconsciously know what to look for, because I've only had 1 job where I hated the work. Grocery retail wasn't bad, but pales in comparison to these. Granted union organizing has a lot of bad surprises, but the ideological bent more than compensates

[–] Caption_Mo@reddthat.com 10 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

I think I have this kind of job, and yet I want everything to just stop. Everything. And I am not autistic nor have ADHD. And I can't even ask anyone for help, because I am not supposed to. I did try asking for help. I was either ignored or was told that I shouldn't ask for help.

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[–] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

My job. Chef at a lunch buffet. Different menu every day, but some things are the same every day. Definate rules so you don't kill people, but creative freedom within that.

[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 12 hours ago

Wow, we have totally opposite experiences of AuDHD. Meal planning and cooking are two of the least pleasant times I have in my routine.

[–] curiousaur@reddthat.com 6 points 17 hours ago

This post just made me deeply appreciate my job.

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