For example, the other day I found out about sewer divers who’s job is to dive through shit in the pitch black, and either fix or unblock things. Totally important, but somebody making sure what’s left of my dinner goes where it’s supposed to, is not something I ever put thought into.
Oh, and if anybody says recruitment, I’m going to lose my rag.
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Watch repairers.
The people who dress up in suits made of silver and grab hold of live 400,000 volt cables while dangling from a helicopter.
Playground equipment inspectors.
I have a brilliant new opportunity in a fast paced environment regarding shit diving if you’re interested.
When someone says “recruitment” and people lose their rag, I go round the country to find them, to be recycled back into the economy. You could say I’m a rag and moan man
I build the lasers that make genome sequencers work.
Not my job but that of a family friend- he is a computer engineer whose sole reason for having a job is to keep various pieces of legacy technology running in a hospital. Among these are the pager systems (80s), the records computer software (80s).
I plan cranes to be delivered across the UK. From little ones on the back of 2-axle lorries to the gigantic telescopic 9-axle ones that crawl along the motorway at 20mph.
Also do tower cranes too that you seen on building sites and skyscrapers.
It’s fun (:
I used to clean and sterilise surgical equipment so it can be used on a new patient. A lot of people seem to think it’s new equipment for every operation.
Wasn’t my job but I feel they are absolutely worth mentioning.
an engineering firm I worked for had road, rail, environmental etc, their water department had clean and dirty water.
Dirty used to call themselves Poo/shit modellers/sculptors (delete as appropriate)
basically they’d inspect sewers with little cam cars, actually get suited up and go down there, and actively planned out new systems and drainage for areas based on projected growth and usage using modelling software to feed into existing systems or directly to the plants.
was how I learned a lot of our sewer systems are still made of bricks and are egg shaped in cross section.
What about the people who climb towers, buildings etc to replace the warning light at the top?
We have a guy at work whose job is to crash the robots to teach them not to crash into people. They are pretty useful moving stock around a warehouse to deliver to a posh supermarket and department store
Nothing major important in the grand scheme of things, but I used to run the EMEA PC build lab for a largish multi-national company (10,000+ seats). I set up the lab from scratch and was the only one who knew the passwords to and how to start the PXE boot server and which images to drop onto a PC or laptop for which region. Nobody got a new PC in the region without it going through my lab first. My line-manager was a bit of cunt and threw me under the bus when he fucked around with a business-critical server delivery I’d organised. I got fired and he got left with a lab no-one but me knew how to use.
A job I nearly had but was scrapped before I started… Non destructive tester…
Using radiation to inspect critical components for damage/fatigue.
The office Interviewed at was a tiny unmarked building on a business park but they had parts for aircraft engines, nuclear power stations, aerospace and defense all in for testing.
Locksmiths and the guys in Timpsons – they are key workers.
I inspect and monitor reservoirs to make sure they don’t fail and cause hundreds of deaths and hundreds of millions of pounds of damage that would then lead to civil disruption and widespread disease.
Anyone in the waste water industry!! Do you know how long it would take for this country to be overrun by poo without some person fixing some shit covered pump and another person shovelling out the poo. (Not withstanding the awful people at the top of these companies signing off on pollution issues I’m talking people on the ground the stinky stinky ground)
And edit to say I never once heard the water industry called front line workers during covid but every single ground worker was in work every day!
My current job is keeping all the clinical policies and treatment guidelines for our hospital up to date and making sure that the most current evidence and national guidelines are included.
Not the most exciting or glamorous, no one knows I’m here, but it means that you are being treated in your local hospital using good research from all over the world.
Actually it’s quite boring and I can’t wait to recover and get back to being a midwife.
Not so much a job that people don’t know exist because I’m sure many are aware but commercial archaeology is a lot more important than people realise. The law in the UK means that few projects can be carried out without the requisite archaeology done first. Quarrying, construction and infrastructure all require archaeological planning. Even putting in a new water pipe in a major city often requires an archaeologist watching the work to keep an eye out for potential archaeology. The old joke is that it takes 5 workers to dig a hole – one to dig and the other 4 to watch him dig it. What many people don’t realise is that one of those watchers is an archaeologist making sure he doesn’t destroy something potentially important.
Lab techs in schools, colleges and universities. They’re the Chuck Norris of the science world, they often know more than the teachers, lecturers and professors, but are often rarely seen.
Not my job but I met a lady the other day who takes a Harris hawk on to roof tops in London (especially offices and restaurants) to stop seagulls and other birds landing and nesting, some biological pest control most people have no idea happens.
People who work in IT taking credit here is crazy
I used to work on ships making sure the ship was in PRECISELY the right place for installing all sorts of subsea infrastructure. Things like electric cables between the turbines in offshore wind farms, inter connector cables from the UK to other countries. Also lots of oil and gas infrastructure in the North Sea.
Was an interesting job for a while but not a great deal of progression.
NHS scientists. People seem to think that they send a blood/urine/poop sample to the doctor and it magically gets done, not that there’s a team of very hard working and knowledgeable scientists performing all sorts of tests on the sample, and advising the doctors on the results.
You know when you open a fresh packet of sliced ham and it smells like someone farted inside? Need I say any more ?
I used to work answering community alarms, which are alarms in old/vulnerable/disabled peoples homes they can use if they need help. I’ve helped save many lives after falls, heart attacks and strokes and been alerted to several house fires.
My mate paints oil rigs in the North Sea, with a special paint so that they dont corrode and basically collapse into the sea. Literally his 9-5 consists of him abseiling off of the rigs above the sea to paint them. Fuck that.