From an outsider’s perspective it would be the places that I work - which I am not going to reveal in any detail to avoid doxing myself, but include nationally and internationally important historical and archaeological sites.

From my perspective, although they are certainly interesting and I love working at them, it doesn’t play a particularly prominent role in what I do day-to-day, so it would be the wide range of problem solving involved: I lead a team dealing with maintenance, compliance and health & safety for a national charity.

I get to invoke and tease people about one of thier biggest fears that terrify them and they pay me to do it.

I’ve only had two people back out on me. After they make it through they are always so happy they conquered it, it’s awesome watching the process from start to finish.

I also sometimes remember that my job feels routine to me and I do it without thinking most it the time but it’s a crippling fear for most people and I do it 5 to 15 times a day on a tropical island without a second thought.

My efforts reduce time spent in incidents for on call engineers. I actively allow them to work less, and they usually fight me on it, hahaha.

I’m an automation engineer working for a large cloud operator.

For people at large, nothing. I’m a data engineer. Eyes immediately gloss over when I tell them. I do have a tool that is a one stop shop potential violation of PII rules.

well, I’m still in the training process, but I’ll be drawing blood. I think that’s interesting as hell!

I work in IT and we have truly self steering teams without formal hierarchy. Not everyone is used to it and IT people can be interesting characters, so it’s quite a process to get the team to perform well.

I’m a software dev, but I also do all the design architecture and infrastructure work. I like that there are new problems to aolve every day so it doesnt get so boring.

That we ingest several petabyte of data from our customers every month.

Not a job but a internship that recently ended.

Helping Ex-entrepreneurs with getting their administration right and filling taxes for them (with them). The unfortunate thing is that they’re usually heavily in debt, varies between 15k to 80k.

After we help them, they can go into an official project - to help them pay the debt for 3 years and the rest will be waived.

However the interesting part is majority of these people refuse to actually participate well. Often not coming to appointments, refusing to pick up calls or text back. Even though what we do is free. They don’t have to pay anything for our help.

The amazing thing is whenever we actually manage to help people, some of them really show gratitude. Such as baking stuff for us, purchase cake and such. One time, a woman even cried out of gratitude and another time told me his life story which was wild (as in nearly died but stayed alive).

It was an stressful but very interesting internship.

I get to have perks cuz no one can get any work done nowadays withough an IT department.

Mine is that I don’t have it.

That i get to travel Australia to all these remote places.

And i get to go on container ships sometimes and always get lost

I get to play with pills

I design lots of things that go to space

Just how ungodly unstable almost every towns infrastructure is. Water mains failing at alarming rates, massive sewer backups, people in charge of this shit have no idea what they’re doing and the ones who do, won’t spend the money until something catastrophic happens.