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.
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That I spend all day coding, I spend most my day reading. Code usually but still
Work - that I do math and science and stuff all the time. Reality - I do that some times. The rest of the time is investigating why an operator put toilet paper into the gear box or other oddities. People are weird.
Hobby - that 3d printing can make anything and it's better bc it's printed. Reality - it's just another tool, does some things well, others not. 3d printed houses are, in general, stupid PR stunts.
Oh man, I can and do make a lot of wild things on my printer, but I can't count the number of times I've had to talk people out of this as a hobby. I've had my box for 7 years, I've completely redesigned the print head, the fan assembly, the extruders, the feed method, the bed, basically everything but the body of the printer. You are not going to drop $200 on marketplace and start printing miniatures this weekend. You are not going to replace all the hardware in your house with printed parts. You are not going to print an armory of ghost guns.
This isn't sci-fi replicators, this is at best goblin artifice.
Idk I have a $300 printer upstairs and you totally can just print stuff on it immediately. The days of super expensive (money and/or time) printers is past.
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
AI can do it - translator.
Example of Google lens fail:
I make good money. I have a masters in sound engineering and I work in IT. I enjoy both a lot and probably that’s why I make little out of them or im just shit lol
Therapists are not "always analysing" you.
Seriously, you gotta pay me before I'll spend the energy to do that
- unless they are autistic. Then they analyse every little twitch
Just because I am in IT doesn't mean I can hack your taxes away, and if I could, I wouldn't because I like my freedom
Oh man.. Just because I am in IT, that doesn’t mean I can get that app to work on your phone or figure out why you can’t get your alarm clock to work…
Your business degree does not make you an industrial engineer, you don't even fucking understand why I keep crusading against variance!
I had the reverse experience. I was in school for finance and I had a roommate that recently graduated with an engineering undergrad. They decided to do a masters in finance because they thought it would be easy. They dropped out after 1 week and said "I have no idea what they're talking about" like no shit buddy lol
I’m a general contractor, and I think a lot of my customers assume I know everything about construction work - that whenever I’m doing something, it’s something I’ve done dozens of times before. But quite often, that’s not the case. Sometimes, all I know about the task at hand comes from a YouTube video I watched the night before, or I’m just following the manufacturer’s instructions step by step.
People don’t realize how often I’m just winging it and hoping it turns out fine. The fact that someone hires me usually means they know even less about the job than I do, which creates the illusion of much greater expertise. But in reality, the main difference between me and them often just boils down to the fact that I'm not afraid to try.
And that you have the experience of trying
In many cases, yes - but my work also involves a lot of things that I’m doing for the very first time.
And that you have the time to figure out how to do it right. (Because they pay you for that time).
Well, not quite. I don't (obviously) charge my customers for learning on the job. If it's something that takes longer for me to do due to lack of experience then I charge less.
That management and leadership are smart, visionary, people without whom everything would fall apart.
It doesn't matter what my line of work is. Management is mostly out of touch idiots everywhere.
"We need to redesign the web page to be more modern! Get me a big hero image and an image carousel!"
"Customers are complaining about how they can't save their search settings. Maybe we should do something about that?"
"No that's not a priority"
I swear I spend more time prioritising and decising when to release my fixes than actually making them
I'm a physical substation designer, and people ask me if I can do electrician stuff.
No, I can't, and don't ask me anything about electricity, thanks.
I just had to google what a substation was. My initial guess was that you made subways lol.
That I can make the band suck less. Sure, there’s something to be said about polishing a shit... But ultimately, it’s shit in>shit out. Your guitar doesn’t sound like ass because of the EQ; it sounds like ass because the guitarist had nine beers before he even walked on stage, and he can’t stay on beat to save his goddamned life.
Psychoacoustics is a fascinating subject. Just like placebo, people will fool themselves into thinking that something sounds good or bad, simply because they want it to. I always keep a DFA fader on my console, for when random people walk up and have suggestions. I make an adjustment to the DFA fader, they smile and nod to themselves, and then walk away. DFA means “Does Fuck All”. It’s literally a fader that isn’t doing anything at all. It’s not in the mix, it’s not in the monitors. It’s just a spare fader. But by adjusting the DFA, audience members will feel like I took them seriously, and they’ll placebo themselves into thinking that I took their advice.
To be clear, not all audience advice is bad advice. But for every “it’s too loud” complaint, you’ll inevitably get an equal and opposite “it’s too quiet”. There’s a reason music festivals have their audio console fenced off with a very wide perimeter. It’s specifically so drunken audience members can’t just saunter up and start yelling suggestions. That shit is distracting and 99% of the time is entirely unproductive.
That I smoke all day, everyday. I don't. I read reports, I check environmental variable, I take readings from and make adjustments to tanks, I instruct people on how to prune and I sob over the new room of completely bare ones because nobody fucking listens to me.
I'm a game designer. Most people have a very hard time understanding what I do
depending on the size of the team I could see "game designer" encompassing a large range of scopes.
What I've learned from this thread is you can fix my laptop
People always assume I want to turn my hobby into a job. I love to bake - it helps me de-stress from my job. If I made it my job, I wouldn't have something to help me de-stress anymore. I make enough money; I don't need to extract the joy from everything in my life for the sake of making more money.
Hussle culture is damned annoying
I'm an antenna engineer and anyone who vaguely knows what that means asks if I'm a ham radio operator. Nope.
Someone glimpses Dark Theme enabled Outlook with custom rules to auto sort email and suddenly you're Neo and can undo longstanding problems caused by nepo IT hires even though you're a plant operator like them with the same user privileges.
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