If you don't work IT, retail, or food service what do you do for work?
Sometimes on Lemmy these seem like the only jobs that actually exist, but I'm sure there's a lot of people here with different and unusual lines of work.
I'm a museum curator based in Europe (very different from the Americas). It's a wonderful job of travel, being close to history and bringing some goodness into the world, if you don't mind the salary of working for a charity.
Same here! Nice to see another tradesman on this site - we're definitely outnumbered. How often do you find yourself doing minor tasks from other trades - like wiring an outlet or plumbing a sink?
I do occasionally touch on others trades, and it's usually because I work on scattered sites where I and my one partner are in a house together alone. Requesting someone to stop what they are doing and come out to where I am to (usually) remove something that's in the way of my progress is a waste of both our times. I will take stuff out, but it's up to them to put it back, and I always let them know ahead of time to get the all clear and somehow still get talked to about it later.
Mathematics Lecturer (just teaching foundation mind).
It's far more fun than people think, but with next to no real holidays (summer is actually quite busy). Also it sucked being on temporary contract, because you had no idea if you'd have work in 12 months no matter how good you were.
I'm a linehaul driver, pic from my first day at this job. I pull a set of double-trailers back and forth between two company terminals overnight. Same route each time, home every day. Pretty chill and easy work, I just listen to audiobooks and podcasts all night as I try not to slap anyone with my back trailer. any recommendations for something new to listen to I'd love to hear it
I highly recommend Science Vs, 99% Invisible, and Cautionary Tales. Pretty good if you're into nerdy stuff. I also recommend Endless Thread if you're interested in stories about the internet. What audiobooks have you enjoyed recently?
Machine maintenance / Macgyver. We make air filters and I have to make sure the machines that make them are running.
I also do any other random jobs. Currently I'm creating a simple webpage to submit machine issues that get sent to a Google sheet and an email sent out.
I also machine metal replacement parts. Of course I make any personal projects I want to as well.
Audio engineer and composer. I do music for a lot of little indie games and short films, etc. and then I also mix music, and edit audio for corporate earnings calls.
So, your first thought might be for enhancing clarity using techniques like compression and limiting to give the calls a consistent volume and avoid spikes that might bust an ear drum.
This is partially true; I run all these calls through a compressor and limiter for that reason, though I am not encouraged by my employer to be obsessed with making the calls pristine...after all they are done on regular phone lines over regular phones (viz., not on nice microphone) and as such you can't exactly get Hollywood sound; you actually rarely useful data below 175 hrz and what is audible above 2500 us usually very useful when boosted (it becomes very essy, harsh, and hissy)
As a second consideration, many publicly traded companies, needing to carefully word their situations to their shareholders, will record two versions of their call and which one gets aired is dependent on news or other factors that come between the call and the airing of the call (could be a matter of hours, or a matter of days). This is also true to an extent and happens from time to time.
A third consideration you might have is, throat clearing, coughing, rummaging of papers. I'll tell you....the MFS have the driest mouths and lip smack louder than a firecracker. They also don't seem to realize if they shuffle papers next to the phone it will pick it up.
But no, even that is not the main reason.
The main reason they need to pre-record is because they can't read. They can't read simple sentences. I've picked a sentence out at random, and knowing nothing about their insane vernacular (we had fantastic EBITDA margins that gross outstanding for the coming tailwinds that outshine our core foundation pillars and drivers of growth) I was able to read them without messing up.
And yet they....will frequently have to read the same sentence 2-10 times. I'm not kidding. Most of these CEOs are fucking imbeciles and mean ones at that. They can barely read a sentence without fucking up. It sometimes takes me an hour to edit together a 15 min call.
On rare occasions it's because they care. I'm under NDA but I'll just say I have worked with a certain publicly traded meat-alternative company that has a lot of re-recording and edits but it's because their CEO (seems to me) very passionate about what he's doing and agonizes over the right word choices even up until the moment of recording. Props to him. He's taking pride in what he does and can actually read a full sentence.
Other people on the other side of the spectrum can't even be bothered to read their script before they show up and don't know how to pronounce their own product names.
TL;DR: I am mostly there to make sure I have a clear pronunciation of every line of the script, take notes on where there are errors, and edit the script together to make a coherent whole at the end without any gross factual error. I do a little bit of processing to get rid of throat clearing, make the volume consistent.
You can block the vast majority of harmful welding radiation with a long sleeve tee shirt. Throw on some sunscreen if you're paranoid about it. I generally wear a lab coat and that's plenty.
If you want something to worry about, worry about gas exposure. You can't see it, generally can't smell it, and if you can feel it, you're probably already fucked. Argon asphyxiation is particularly insidious. Close ur eyes for a little snooze on the job and wake up to meet God.