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If you don't work IT, retail, or food service what do you do for work? (lemmy.world)

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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.

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[-] it_depends_man@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

I helped design large-ish electrical grids. 30-100k cables

Without the actual calculation bits, unfortunately.

Not very interesting. Bad software. Management didn't really care about the problem. I was there so the problem was "managed" from their point of view.

[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Which partif the grid?

[-] it_depends_man@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

The boring part. Making sure that there are holes in the walls for sockets, enough capacity in the cable trays. Planning the routing, but I didn't have access to algorithm of the software.

Collecting the ever changing inputs from people who want devices with cables in rooms and spaces. :)

[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Oh, okay, interesting. I do physical substation design, so there's a lot of overlap there. Just right now I'm slogging through conduit details, lol

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