I’m curious what percentage of lemmy are in the trades I.e have a trade job plumber electrician mechanic etc vs in the service industry working at a shop in retail vs a business position working from a computer all day in an office.
I’ll put five comments bellow.
Trade
Retail
Office
Study
Unemployed
Up vote what category you fall into
I myself am a crane technician so I am in the trades.
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Something with logistics and data for a big Swedish furniture store.
So retail/office hybrid?
I just kinda assumed we’re all programmers here tbh. Maybe the occasional engineer too.
Manufacturing here.
That’s what I expected to see as the dominant job
Office
Nice try, Zuckerberg
I was hands on, travel-to-site, IT support for a long while. I loved it tbh.
I support 5 humans in all of their eating, cleaning, logistic and clerical needs i’m not sure where this falls in your spectrum but if you consider it ‘unemployed’ i question the value of this poll.
Healthcare adjacent or service provider (massage therapist) not sure that fits anywhere
None of the above, I think? I deal with boaty things. Computery stuff regarding survey boaty things, to be precise.
If I absolutely had to choose, I’d say internal support for a trade, although I think a trade would involve trade school.
Actually, on paper I’m considered office personnel, although my “office” is my bedroom, and 20% of the time I’m on the far side of the world.
Trade
Unemployed
60% work from home “office”, 30% on site at an assembly and test facility, and 10% visiting customers to fix problems. Not sure where that falls. I do a mix of technical and customer service and office work so who knows.
What is “childcare”? Because I’m working on my hands and knees half the time or holding up to ~15kg for hours a day.
None of those, I’m in the restaurant industry.
Study
Service for a trade.
I have a unique job. I do maintenance on the new plastic covers of gas meters.
In the US, your gas meter now has a plastic cover that sends a reading of your meter to the utility. (Its literally reading the analog output of your meter’s dial. Before, someone had to come out and read it manually. You can still opt-in to that, but pay a higher premium). They are battery powered. I replace the batteries.
So, not a typical trade job.
So, if the meter has one of those old displays with all the little dials, it has some kind of a sensor that reads that and transmits it? Convoluted, but probably much reduces the price compared to retrofitting the actual meter itself.
Correct :D
I just had to have our meter replaced while we were replacing the water line to our house. The tech who installed it said that the meter cost $5K to replace. Was very glad I didn’t have to pay for the new meter on top of the main water line.
