Sysadmin for one of the oldest remaining independent local newspapers in Germany.
I commute to work by bicycle, have a 7 hour work day, and we regularly have foosball tournaments and Nerf gun battles during work hours.
Other than that, it’s pretty standard sysadmin work, made more interesting by the specialized software we deploy, the extremely high security and resiliency standards, and the special characters who work at a local newspaper in 2024.
The team and my boss are really chill. It’s low stress, unionized, with really decent pay, flexible schedules, right to work-from-home and 42 days of paid vacation (plus 13 national holidays and unlimited sick days).

I’ll work this job until the newspaper goes bankrupt, when (not if) the entire sector of print journalism disappears.

I work as a software developer, making 3d, Virtual- and Augmented Reality applications for industrial and commercial customers. For example I make trainings where you learn how to operate certain machines in VR or tourism apps where you can explore the history of a place through phone AR. Basically, I do the same thing as a game developer, often using game engines like Unreal and Unity, but not making actual games.

I work from home, so a typical day is just me sitting in front of my computer for 8 hours a day. Sometimes I have to visit a customer or a trade show for a few days, so I’ll take the train and stay at a hotel somewhere. It’s generally a pretty interesting job where I get to use a lot of different tools and hardware. It’s also not very stressful, in contrast to actual game development.

Devops, working with aws infrastructure and networking, terraform, ansible etc. A lot of Linux!

It’s fun and pays well. Recommend it for anyone who gets excited about new open source things and Linux features. I’ve been known to change terminals and editors a lot, and constantly change my neovim plugins and themes, even switching to tiling window managers occasionally.

I’m just having fun and getting paid for it.

Monkey wrangler. I wrangle monkeys.

Facilities manager for a wildlife and heritage charity. I lead a small team looking after health & safety, compliance and building maintenance and repairs.

Ninety percent of my time is spent at the keyboard, but since I am peripatetic and move around the properties that I cover, I have a different, and usually beautiful, view out of the window each day of the week. When I am not sat behind a desk, I will be crawling through an attic or have my head down a sewer or something.

My time is spent arranging contractors for routine servicing or repair projects, reviewing fire risk assessments and dealing with outstanding actions, writing client briefs for renewable energy projects, chasing people to do workplace inspections, advising on risk assessments, updating our compliance tracker, arranging asbestos surveys, ensuring that everyone who needs training has it up to date, proving to utility companies that their meters are wildly inaccurate and need to be replaced, working out why the biomass boiler/sewage treatment plant/water heater/automatic gate/car park machine/phone system/greywater pump/security alarm/whatever isn’t working and getting it fixed and so on.

I work at a RV production facility. Our plant produces luxury fifth-wheels, the type of RVs that are towed using a special hitch that goes into the bed of a large pickup truck. My specific job is trim, and I run a miter saw. My day is spent rolling through several schedules of trim that go to various areas around the plant: flat-cut black pieces for trimming out the windows; little wood pieces for the square lights that go in slideouts; and all assortment of different colors of deco, crown, quarter round, door casing, etc for the guys in my own station.

It’s a job that is complicated and simple at the same time. I’ve gotten to be very good at this job and can pretty much cut everything I need to while I’m sleeping, and I don’t typically need to consult measurements in my book for much anymore. At the same time, sometimes you get a weird cabinet with bad proportions and you have to make very special trim pieces to make it look great again. I spend most of my shifts listening to audiobooks and crime documentaries on YouTube.

I typically work from 5 AM — 11:30-12:00, so I seldom work more than 35 hours, and I have a lot of free time in the afternoons. I’m grateful for my job. Depending on the time of year, I spend my days studying botany, browsing Lemmy, doing activities with my kid, working on my car, etc.

I Climb and trim trees for a living. I’m studying to take the arborist exam, too. I normally drive straight to the first job at about 8 after dropping my son off at daycare. Everything last that varies wildly sometimes the trees don’t need climbed so I work on the ground all day. Some days I set my rope right away and climb trees all day. I’m on light duty atm cause I took a log directly to the kneecap. No tears, just some stretched/sprained ligaments that heal slowly. Don’t fuck around with spring wood.

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