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[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 2 points 44 minutes ago

That because I'm punk and a mosher I must be aggressive and do lots of drugs. i'm only aggressive to shit people who deserve it lol

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Did I know how printers work and can fix their printer.

Look, I have a computer science degree (utterly pointless qualification folks don't get one) and I work in cyber security. I haven't got a clue how those fuckers work, I don't know get a brother or something they seem to be fine.

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

Printers are so cheap nowadays that the solution to every problem is to buy a new one. Paper jam? Out of ink? Random pages coming out with grayscale pictures of demonic forces? Lost the power cable? Buy a new one

[–] halloween_spookster@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Software engineering.

Most people don't have a clue what we do. Especially management. Most people think we're code factory workers, just writing code all day. In reality, it is closer to being an artist than it is a factory worker. There's a ton of thinking, discussion, design, and unfortunately politicking.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 hours ago

Hey collegue!

Fully agree with you. People think anything can be done with Software. But often not really and we just create a work around. Its always funny to see people think developing is easy and then get shattered by reality. Sometimes you just sit there, screaming for why it doesnt work!...then you see you set the wrong variable.

Sometimes you are an artist, sometimes a high mathematician, sometimes a wizard and sometimes you want to get an axe and hack your computer

[–] 6stringringer@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 hours ago

I actually do enjoy human interaction (to a reasonable degree).

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

People assume programmers know all about hacking. Because we "know about computers."

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Can you hack Roblox?

[–] JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

"Accountants spend most of their time preparing tax"

No, hardly any time is spent on tax. Management accountants and auditors don't do tax work at all.

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 14 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

User end hands on IT for the elderly.

that it's hard. "Oh I could never do your job"

It's literally a customer service job with tech paint. Reboot the device. Don't yell at the decrepit person doing their best in a digital world. Collect check and praise.

The amount of times I've been called a genius for relogging into someone's email is greater than 7.

Yeah. Real hard.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Don't yell at the decrepit person doing their best in a digital world.

I think this is the part some people might struggle with

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Every time it gets difficult I imagine cleaning week old fry grease out of the fryer with a coat hanger because it was so clogged. I was making less then.

I love context. It helps so much.

Honestly it's only bad when they come at it like they know more than you do. 1 out of 100 in my very lucky experience.

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Lol, I was the computer genius in my office job because I knew how to change the paper size on the printer from Letter to A4. Soak up the praise!

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 7 hours ago

It's one of those things I'd probably have to Google because how many times do you do that, but yeah think most people just give up when they hit a technical problem and stop thinking.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 20 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

People are always amazed at how physically active embroidery is at an industrial scale. Everybody thinks it's just sitting around with an oldschool hoop, but I'm up and down the length of an 8ft machine all day, embroidering the same design on 6 garments at once.

I think the most I ever did was 300 garments in an 8 hour workday, but I put 17k steps on my fitbit and was dead tired afterwards.

Edit:oh heck it was more steps than that

[–] MadBabs@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

What do you use? Our shop has a Tajima T-MAR

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 hours ago

We're running with the Barudan BEKY, but they run .dst files too.

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 16 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

People praise me up for "saving the bees". Honey bees don't need saving. It's the other bees that do, the hundreds of species of bumblebees, mining bees, solitary bees etc etc. Bees that are outcompeted in some areas due to the number of hobbyist beekeepers and commercial bee farms. I'm one of the baddies.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I have a wildlife garden with lots of wild plants and insects and stuff. I thought I was helping the bees but I mean just helping some body make artisanal honey to sell to me at the craft fair?

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

No, you're helping all the other pollinators too! Keep a corner of your garden nice and rough, with tumbled bricks or rocks, twigs, dead leaves etc to make a wee nesting spot for bumblebees.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 7 points 21 hours ago

I have red-belted bumblebees living inside the wall of my house. We need to fix the broken light fixture they're using to gain access, but I dun wanna kick them out, haha.

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I've always been interested in the business side of beekeeping, do you rent out for pollination and is it worth doing?

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 57 minutes ago

We get free use of a spot next to an apple orchard, so I guess pollination is our "rent", plus some honey. I don't know what arrangement commercial beekeepers have - near us they move 60+ hives in when the oilseed rape (canola) is flowering, then move them again when it's finished. A guy I was talking to said they reckon they can break even with 300 hives, because one person can deal with that many. More than that they have to employ someone else, and bang go the profits. Sounds like a nightmare. I struggle to cope with 7 hives!

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago

I'm working with computers => I can fix their windows problems.

Nope. If I work on windows, and it eats itself for no reason, I call IT. I don't waste my time on that crap software.

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That I spend all day coding, I spend most my day reading. Code usually but still

That's so fucking true. If I'm honest its usually trying to figure out how the fuck something actually is supposed to work. Its either by searching stuff online or changing single lines of code until it finally works.

[–] auginator@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m in engineering. If I tell someone I work for the phone company they think I work on phones. Not sure what my mom thinks I do.

[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

I'm in school for electrical engineering. Everyone I tell that to then says they are going to hire me to fix the electrical issues at their house.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Software dev and game dev: Being lazy, it not being a real job, not much effort, it being easy, everyone is a super genius, AI will replace us

[–] essell@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Therapists are not "always analysing" you.

Seriously, you gotta pay me before I'll spend the energy to do that

[–] cokeslutgarbage@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

My ex girlfriend is a therapist, and she was CONSTANTLY "analyzing" me, even when I begged her to turn that shit off and just be my girlfriend.

[–] essell@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Count Dracula doesn't like in a castle because he's a vampire.

He lives in a castle because he's a count

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like even after paying therapists don't do much

[–] essell@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Sucks that you've not found them helpful.

Therapy can be great, a place to get stuff that's hard to find in the day to day life.

But it's not the only place to get that stuff. So I hope whatever it is you need, you find a place that works for you.

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