• BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I dated a girl in uni and she asked what my career goals were, and I said House Husband. She ended the relationship claiming I had no ambition.

    Fast forward to now, I have a career, but also I work from home so I do all the cooking, laundry cycles, some decorating, while also wokring on car engine rebuilds on the weekend. My wife handles the finances, and shouting at crackheads or assholes when they are causing trouble in the neighbourhood.

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      2 months ago

      You’re living my dream and I seethe with jealousy. I should have picked a career where I could work from home. Unfortunately I work in healthcare, so I didn’t even get to temporarily live the dream when everyone else was staying home during COVID.

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        2 months ago

        i work as “essential employee” so i never stayed home, alot of people got COVID by the way, even with safety protocols. what a surprise, as soon as the lockdowns lifted, increased pressure to layoffs mounted for many industries. i heard from a friend who works in health as a technician(not directly with health related) but they held on to these employees and worked them to the bone.

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        2 months ago

        Dude that sucks.

        My WFH has been for about 15 years. I used to work in an enginerring office and quit to move across country, they told me to lug my PC with me and work remotely. WTH this was an option the whole time??

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          2 months ago

          Still seething over here. I’ve heard this a couple different times from people, where they put in their two weeks and the company is just “well why didn’t you tell us, of course you can work from home”. Seems to be the only time people can get a raise or get permits to wfh nowadays is if they threaten to quit.

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              2 months ago

              Nah, I see patients both in an out-patient clinic and patients who have been admitted into the trauma ward at the hospital. All my specialty does face to face is really hands on, so no virtual visits.

              The other half of my job involves custom fabrication, so we have to have access to some pretty specialized heavy machinery. I basically have the least wfh job possible. The upside is there really isn’t a possibility for my job to be automated any time in the foreseeable future, so I guess I have that going for me.

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                  2 months ago

                  I work in orthotics and prosthetics, I build and fit people for artificial limbs and custom orthopedic braces. It’s a little specialty branch working under orthopedics and rehabilitation. Kinda merges medicine and fabrication using plaster, metal, thermoplastic, composites, leather and fabrics.

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                    2 months ago

                    Very cool. I have been doing some of that work for 3D printed prosthesis parts. We get scans of the limb and build out from there. I have no clinician skills, we just get direction from somebody in your position and make the models in CAD and then print them.