A little late to the post but I’m an apprentice electrician. Inside wireman so mostly commercial, office, and industrial buildings.
Never too late. Is that mostly installation or repair, or are they the same?
Most companies in our union do both. The two main groups of work are Service and New Construction. Repair would fall under service work as well as installing things in finished buildings, preventative maintenance, etc. Right now I’m doing new construction. I hope to get to do service work at some point, though we always have a lot of new construction in this area. I get assigned to a new company every year while I’m an apprentice so there is a chance I’ll get to.
Currently graduating from my computer science degree, searching for a job in backend. :}
Update: Just got one! Junior dev role. Weeee~
Just saw the update, Congrats.
We got another one in the system. >:}
Thank you!
I’m an artist, aka unemployed with a hobby.
Im currently in uni studying software engineering
I work in niche corporate software that basically has me do full-stack programming in addition to a ton of proprietary server configuration. It’s wide as an ocean but deep as a puddle, so it’s really difficult to learn everything but the day-to-day is super chill. Pays by the truckload compared to normal programming jobs, and I probably realistically work ~3 hours per day, most of which is directing my team. Unfortunately there’s basically no overlap in my job skills to my hobby skills/special interests as everything is super proprietary (even most of the programming languages), so I really only do it for the money and not because I like it.
I’d like to do a more Linux-centric or interesting job in the future but I’m not sure if I’ll enjoy it more because ultimately it will still be work and will probably pay much less. As-is I’m brute forcing my way to early retirement in the next handful of years, and I’m not sure if I want to punch out when I hit my number or transition to something more “fun”.
I’m an apprentice bench jeweler!
Sounds interesting. All I have in response to that is I sometimes like watching wristwatch revival on youtube. I feel like I could get some relaxation out of that.
My grandpa was a proper watchmaker, he started the business 50 years ago this year actually!
Cool! Here’s to 50 more.
Watchmaking is the kind of thing I can’t decide if I would like or despise. The way Marshall presents it, there is a lot of precision and focus needed, but after a while I would think a service is a service and just becomes routine.
The appealing thing to me about watch repair is the intrinsic order of it all. Every watch (or clock) is a precision instrument with exactly ONE correct way to function. Not a lot of room for subjectivity on the part of the customer or the one doing the repair!
I can see the appeal. It doesn’t hurt the internals are so cool looking too. I work with electronics and code. There is usually only correct operation, but often many different ways to get there; and many of the problems are self inflicted and usually fun to hunt down.
