I've been meaning to find a reason to post it here, because it didn't feel “epic” enough to bother posting, but now that it's on Reddit I figured I might as well, save someone else stealing my life story. In r/ask there was a post asking people who actually enjoy their jobs, what it is they do. This was my (verbatim) reply.
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in a sentence: not a damn thing! 😀
We make HVAC units (air-con, air handlers, etc.) and my job is quality control (sort of). I used to have to measure all the performance characteristics manually. I tweaked the controller code to measure and output these things for me, and a RaspberryPi reads the data and automatically uploads it to a Google Sheet for me.
From there I copy & paste the graph from last time, update the data range to reflect the new test, and voi-la 😀 for 24 minutes I'm on reddit/discord, and for 3 minutes I'm doing what used to be the easiest part of the job. I've been wanting to put this in r/antiwork but it's not a perfect job, because I can't work from home 🙁
My place still uses cards that you have to pick up & slide through the machine for it to print your start/lunch/end times on, and the book keeper still has to enter those manually into the computer. There are a lot of inefficiencies here (lul) but if that's the only bad thing about the job, I consider myself pretty lucky to be doing something easy & enjoyable 🙂