Hey! I was just curious what everyone here does for a living/majors in.
I teach English as an additional language/lingua franca. I have a background in Letras, the Brazilian equivalent of a Linguistics + Literature major (plus a bit of Latin and Greek). In Brazil you can study Portuguese + an additional language or just Portuguese, in which case you focus much more on Brazilian, European Portuguese and African Portuguese Literatures. I chose to study Portuguese and English and fell in love with Linguistics. Literature for me is for pleasure, not studying, although I enjoy using Literature as a means to teach English. My main areas of interest are English as a lingua franca, additional language acquisition and materials design, and hopefully Iāll start teaching Portuguese as an additional language next year.
Senior Engineer in the gaming industry. I am slowly transitioning into a manager role though.
I majored in electronics engineering for my bachelors. As long as I am doing something with electronics or gaming, I am content with the job. I might take up a PMP certification down the line eventually even if my next position doesnāt really require.
Cool! Management is not an area I think I would succeed in and I admire the people who have the skills. My sister is also in education and she managed a school for many years. Being responsible for a team is no easy job.
I have two professional degrees, seamstress and sterile processing technician.
Havenāt used either of them to get a job and have instead worked in retail the past 10 years.
Iām a network engineer at a small ISP (think city-sized) and datacenter! Also called digital plumber heh
Specifically i deal with routing aka moving packets to and from the internet, monitor routes and make sure weāre using the best ones, set up new peerings with other ISPs, plan and conduct maintenance windows at night and help troubleshooting when shit hits the fan
Iāve been working in offices. Trained as a secretary originally but have been doing different office jobs though.
Iāve also been working in elementary schools teaching kids how to use a PC, mostly for school purposes (using the internet for research, using word-processing programs and stuff like this) because lots of teachers didnāt even know themselves so they wouldnāt know how to teach this to the kids (itās hilarious and embarrassing but gives a pretty good impression on how behind the school system in Germany is). But that was just on some volunteering level.
Then Iāve been undergoing some additional training as a medical typist because I wanted to work in offices still but not as a secretary, instead mainly focussing on typing. Did work in this field for a short period of time until my mental health got in the way (again).
By now Iām on RECP for a few years. If I ever get out of it again it most likely will be a typist job again but who knows.
I think itās less about being cool and more that manual labour is usually not paid well - at least where I live you can barely get around as most of these jobs are slightly above minimum wage (and our country has high taxes on everything). So itās usually a job poor foreigners or immigrants do.
Personally I work in graphics design as well. I am not exceptionally good at it, but I have a job with decent pay (considering that I work part-time and can get around finde each month) I am however thinking about learning programming and changing to a job in IT - there are way more jobs (and better pay) in a computer and tech job than design. Plus I am a bit tired of layouting the same stuff over and over.
Sure it isnāt. But think something like 30 years ahead. Whoās gonna grow food or sew clothes if everybody goes to work in high tech? Unfortunately itās not the type of thing thatās prioritized by the government of a ādevelopedā country (unless itās some zany plankton or seaweed farm enterprise).
Iām a student studying Audio Production. I work in my schoolās electronic music lab as an assistant. Literally just sit at a desk for 4 hours and sign people in, occasionally try to help them with their work if they need it.
But I guess I got the overall idea
