I just decided to start asking this instead of ‘what do you do?’ when meeting people. Figured I’d try it out on you folks.
jack shit
Submitted 2 days ago by Yondoza@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
I just decided to start asking this instead of ‘what do you do?’ when meeting people. Figured I’d try it out on you folks.
jack shit
As a welder, I create a ton of shit. Today, I created a new handle for a lathe, cut off the old one, and bolted on my part so the lathe functions (mostly).
Lots of poo.
A good bit actually though. I’m disabled, so no job. This means that while I’m on my ass recovering from the necessities of living like cooking and cleaning, I have a shit ton of spare time.
Part of that is spent fucking around on lemmy.
The rest is usually spent on some variety or another of writing fiction. Short stories, a few ongoing novels, that sort of thing. Here and there a poem or song will pop in my head.
Then there’s a bit of panting, occasional drawing, that kind of visual art.
I’ve also been known to run ttrpg sessions here and there, which is its own art form in a way.
Legos
Profit for shareholders.
Waste that I expell in the bathroom.
I create hastily designed lumber creations that are used to organize and store things.
Every couple of years I create a world for friends to play tabletop games in for a shared experience.
Some days I get paid to create written documentation and shared understanding of complex systems used to collect and report data that someone else will hopefully analyze and use for improving the educational opportunities of children.
I love the reframing of the question.
Ive always hated that question. Its usually asked to determine social status.
Disagree. Or at least, that’s just a side effect. I like talking to people about their expertise.
People in manufacturing and r&d quite like the question, I’d reckon. I wouldn’t relate it to social status.
If you are from the same industry then yes.
I definitely didn’t read it that way from the post. I thought it was about your hobbies and creative interests. I guess you could infer social strata by whether the answerer has time and disposable income for hobbies. Some don’t require much investment, but it’s usually more than none.
35mm film with picture negatives on it
I create useless applications for diary use. Now im working on an organizer that reads my work ins and outs times to control my extra hours and eventually cash in free days due to excess working hours.
Various 3d printed items, Last week I sewed some dust covers for my HOTAS peripherals, scripts to help manage my media library, nonsense comments on Lemmy.
Novels and short stories. Also very large children, carved wooden staffs, and random pieces of art.
Memes
programs, music and baby
Resin dice, novels, 3D prints, paintings, video games, wooden furniture, RPG scenarios. I have way too many hobbies and maybe two hours per week to work on them, so in reality I create very little. But making something physical is incredibly helpful for keeping the worst of my depression at bay.
azdle@news.idlestate.org 2 days ago
I organize electrons in ways that make fancy sand organize more electrons.
iii@mander.xyz 2 days ago
(Laser?) Machines for semiconductor fab. Given the time of day, I’d wager ASML, cause there’s not much else happening in that branche in Europe.
azdle@news.idlestate.org 1 day ago
Nothing near that impressive. I don’t make the fancy sand, I just move electrons around with fancy sand that someone else made, aka programming.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 day ago
“AZ” in the username meaning they might work at one of the fabs in Phoenix
konalt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I would’ve assumed just a programming job/hobby. The programming is the organizing of the electrons and the semiconductor fab is the organizer of the fancy sand?