“Accountants spend most of their time preparing tax”
No, hardly any time is spent on tax. Management accountants and auditors don’t do tax work at all.
People assume programmers know all about hacking. Because we “know about computers.”
Software engineering.
Most people don’t have a clue what we do. Especially management. Most people think we’re code factory workers, just writing code all day. In reality, it is closer to being an artist than it is a factory worker. There’s a ton of thinking, discussion, design, and unfortunately politicking.
User end hands on IT for the elderly.
that it’s hard. “Oh I could never do your job”
It’s literally a customer service job with tech paint. Reboot the device. Don’t yell at the decrepit person doing their best in a digital world. Collect check and praise.
The amount of times I’ve been called a genius for relogging into someone’s email is greater than 7.
Yeah. Real hard.
Lol, I was the computer genius in my office job because I knew how to change the paper size on the printer from Letter to A4. Soak up the praise!
People praise me up for “saving the bees”. Honey bees don’t need saving. It’s the other bees that do, the hundreds of species of bumblebees, mining bees, solitary bees etc etc. Bees that are outcompeted in some areas due to the number of hobbyist beekeepers and commercial bee farms. I’m one of the baddies.
I’ve always been interested in the business side of beekeeping, do you rent out for pollination and is it worth doing?
I’m working with computers => I can fix their windows problems.
Nope. If I work on windows, and it eats itself for no reason, I call IT. I don’t waste my time on that crap software.
That I spend all day coding, I spend most my day reading. Code usually but still
I’m in engineering. If I tell someone I work for the phone company they think I work on phones. Not sure what my mom thinks I do.
Software dev and game dev: Being lazy, it not being a real job, not much effort, it being easy, everyone is a super genius, AI will replace us
Therapists are not “always analysing” you.
Seriously, you gotta pay me before I’ll spend the energy to do that
- unless they are autistic. Then they analyse every little twitch
Work - that I do math and science and stuff all the time. Reality - I do that some times. The rest of the time is investigating why an operator put toilet paper into the gear box or other oddities. People are weird.
Hobby - that 3d printing can make anything and it’s better bc it’s printed. Reality - it’s just another tool, does some things well, others not. 3d printed houses are, in general, stupid PR stunts.
Oh man, I can and do make a lot of wild things on my printer, but I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to talk people out of this as a hobby. I’ve had my box for 7 years, I’ve completely redesigned the print head, the fan assembly, the extruders, the feed method, the bed, basically everything but the body of the printer. You are not going to drop $200 on marketplace and start printing miniatures this weekend. You are not going to replace all the hardware in your house with printed parts. You are not going to print an armory of ghost guns.
This isn’t sci-fi replicators, this is at best goblin artifice.
Idk I have a $300 printer upstairs and you totally can just print stuff on it immediately. The days of super expensive (money and/or time) printers is past.
Oh yeah, you can get printing immediately, even make some really good stuff, but I’m taking about the people who think they can pick up some bunk diy thing and bag of pla and get professional resin detail on their first go.
Oh, yeah, it’s gonna be a little rough around the edges. I don’t really mind layer lines, but if you want a perfect product you’re going to have to put in some design work to get it to that level and have a good printer for it.
I actually love layer lines, it’s such a distinctive look and feel that few other things have. I keep a second profile for my printer that prints at 0.4/0.2 just for that feel.
I’m still amazed you can draw something on your computer and physically print it into reality. I do agree that layer lines can look pretty cool.
AI can do it - translator.
Example of Google lens fail:
I make good money. I have a masters in sound engineering and I work in IT. I enjoy both a lot and probably that’s why I make little out of them or im just shit lol
I have a masters in an academic field, but my profession is sound engineer. I learned the trade like an apprentice, but my academic background really helps my main job as a production manager — lots of organizing and communication to handle on the business side.
I think a common misconception of (live) sound engineers is that we’re always partying, but this shit is work, especially if you find yourself on the road.
Just because I am in IT doesn’t mean I can hack your taxes away, and if I could, I wouldn’t because I like my freedom
Oh man… Just because I am in IT, that doesn’t mean I can get that app to work on your phone or figure out why you can’t get your alarm clock to work…
I’m a general contractor, and I think a lot of my customers assume I know everything about construction work - that whenever I’m doing something, it’s something I’ve done dozens of times before. But quite often, that’s not the case. Sometimes, all I know about the task at hand comes from a YouTube video I watched the night before, or I’m just following the manufacturer’s instructions step by step.
People don’t realize how often I’m just winging it and hoping it turns out fine. The fact that someone hires me usually means they know even less about the job than I do, which creates the illusion of much greater expertise. But in reality, the main difference between me and them often just boils down to the fact that I’m not afraid to try.
And that you have the experience of trying
In many cases, yes - but my work also involves a lot of things that I’m doing for the very first time.
