this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2024
393 points (99.0% liked)

Science Memes

11440 readers
916 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.

Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
393
How I explain my job (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
25 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17405393

Its just easier

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As a modern software engineer, I believe the second panel is also sufficient to explain my job to congress.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The internet is just a series of pipes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Stuff goes in. Stuff goes out. You can't explain that!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I've always struggled to succinctly describe my job to people outside of it, it's muddy because I often fill gaps and there's often a lack of clear r&r, I'm on paper a Data Engineer & Architect, I just say I design and build backend stuff and handle infrastructure.

Had the same issue when I did Equipment Reliability Engineering, technical roles are often really hard to explain to people I've found.