I’m curious what percentage of lemmy are in the trades I.e have a trade job plumber electrician mechanic etc vs in the service industry working at a shop in retail vs a business position working from a computer all day in an office.

I’ll put five comments bellow.

Trade

Retail

Office

Study

Unemployed

Up vote what category you fall into

I myself am a crane technician so I am in the trades.

Mods can remove if this isn’t allowed

  • Oka@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    12 hours ago

    I have a unique job. I do maintenance on the new plastic covers of gas meters.

    In the US, your gas meter now has a plastic cover that sends a reading of your meter to the utility. (Its literally reading the analog output of your meter’s dial. Before, someone had to come out and read it manually. You can still opt-in to that, but pay a higher premium). They are battery powered. I replace the batteries.

    So, not a typical trade job.

    • Zonetrooper@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 hours ago

      So, if the meter has one of those old displays with all the little dials, it has some kind of a sensor that reads that and transmits it? Convoluted, but probably much reduces the price compared to retrofitting the actual meter itself.

      • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        8 hours ago

        I just had to have our meter replaced while we were replacing the water line to our house. The tech who installed it said that the meter cost $5K to replace. Was very glad I didn’t have to pay for the new meter on top of the main water line.