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If there's a ok-paying job out there that's basically "the one who fixes everything around here", I'd take it.
I can solder, work with wood, electronics, and leather, I can handle all sorts of paints, fix bicycles, get computers to behave, and many more little things.
If I learn how to weld, I'll be unstoppable
@godoot close enough
@aesthr watch for university science departments with openings like "demonstrations technician" - that's basically what I do
Unfortunately it's very much not a growth field, so openings happen when somebody retires :/
@aesthr This week I replaced the handle on a hand-cranked generator, sealed cracks in wooden molecule models, lubricated a gyroscope (graphite because oil gets tacky over time), hunted down replacement bulbs for 1980s projectors, folded sample paper airplanes, wrote/proofread blogposts (one each), soldered in a new power cable for a spotlight, and cut tiny leather and rubber gaskets to seal a clear plastic piston so students can see how compressing a gas heats it up.
It's a fun job!
@clay that sounds awesome
@aesthr sounds a bit like a University Workshop. Though that's more building and less fixing