#jobs in the sector

[mapsontheweb]

Energy sector jobs in the US

by u/USAFacts

[ofcowardiceandkings]

i get it guys but did you REALLY have to spray Stonehenge orange to protest fossil fuels ...

[loki-zen]

I have noticed btw that more often than not these days when I meet new people and they ask what I do for work, I don't say "I'm a librarian" and instead say something like "I work in medical research and evidence" or "I'm in NHS evidence and knowledge services" or something like that... I guess I don't really imagine that those sentences really help people picture my job much either, since it's just not a role people are aware of, but I guess there are levels on which I have always preferred honest bafflement to being identified with a concept that people think they understand (in ways that lead them to make assumptions that don't feel right about me).

anyway librarians of tumblr feel free to tell me im letting down the sisterhood or whatever

[kalamity-jayne]

In case you were wondering where things are at in the film and television industry here's how post-production folks (editors, VFX, Colorists, etc) are doing. These screenshots are from The Blue Collar Post Collective's FB page (they are an International professional network for folks working in post).

This one is from a few months ago...

These are all from the past few days (from 2 separate Anon posts re "where to find jobs")...

My former post-supervisor really fucked me over and I've been unemployed for months. At this point I'm applying to jobs in grocery stores cause it's just dead dead dead out there. Winter is always the time of year you don't want to be without a film or series to work on but this just abysmal.

[enchantedlandcoffee]

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[tangibletechnomancy]

The shitty thing about the AI voice acting "agreement", beyond the fact that it was done without the input of the majority of people who would be affected, is that a lot of people have exactly WHY it's such a raw deal exactly backwards. It's not labor being eliminated to cut costs; it's labor being CHEAPENED even when there may very well be more of it involved.

There are lots of claims going around that AI voices are TOTALLY different from other voice synthesis we've had before because they let you just plug in a script and get the perfect read out, and that's just...not true, at all, unless you're really, really lucky. Sure, it's smoother and more intuitive work (generally) and more natural-sounding results than older iterations of voice synthesis, but there's still a LOT of specification and tweaking involved in getting it to consistently sound more like a person than a computer, let alone actually sound like a decent director might want.

In fact, one of the most effective ways to get an affect more dynamic than slightly-better-than-TikTok-TTS, is to.........have an actual human person perform it and use the synthesizer to follow along with it in a different voice!

In other words, in order for this to actually be a thing, you still need a voice actor who can give a convincing performance. And you need them to be willing to work for peanuts because their voice won't be in the final product. You need them to be willing to be denied credit because their voice won't REALLY be in the final product. But you also need them to be competent and give a good performance, because the synthesizer will follow along with them, whether they do it right or wrong. The only thing they can skimp on is things like vocal technique - you know, the way you do action scene after action scene without losing your voice by the time you're 45?

In order for this to be cheaper than just hiring a fucking actor, people in the process necessarily have to be criminally underpaid.

And yet, somehow, it's been given the go-ahead anyway!? Genuinely, fuck that.

[moleshow]

i'm not even a board certified obama defender but bro is cooking nothing here. bullshit or not, legislation which will put millions of people out of their jobs will never pass. this is not an Obama Thee Liberal problem, it's a legitimate policy question. this is clear to legislators but apparently not so much to people who post online for a living

[reasonsforhope]

Crowdsourcing a question

Okay totally personal post here because, now that search engines suck, my research is failing me. So I'm crowdsourcing my question about the residential care work industry!

Hoping at least some of my followers have experience in/with the industry and some intel on this:

Actual question: How common is it for jobs in residential care work (residential centers, btw, not home care) to actually have two people on the night shift? vs. just saying they always have two people on the night shift in interviews and their official policies, and actually it's not true?

Because my current job was, it turns out, apparently totally lying about "you'll never be on shift alone with clients" at orientation (when it comes to the night shift, anyway). Which, holy fucking safety issues, Batman!

Suffice to say this was a very fun thing to find out like three days before my first regular shift

So, I'm thinking realllll hard about switching companies, and I'm trying to figure out if I could expect to actually have a coworker at a different company, or if it's like an open secret in the field that actually, basically all the night shifts end up being solo shifts, because the industry is so chronically understaffed or w/e

[hemaris]

soooooo annoying how a year ago i was like hahaaaa leaving the legal sector FOREVER & now i'm like being a public prosecutor would pay really well though 🥺🥺🥺

[mariacallous]

My supervisor and I had a good conversation and review of our portfolio and work in prep for meetings and planning and she complimented me on how productive I was today, which I think seemed like more than it actually was. And just feeling good about upcoming stuff and our organization which was nice.

Almost made me regret planning on leaving and trying to go elsewhere both within the agency and in general. Almost.

[manns-cape]

the new 20-somethings of this website write such amazing posts

[palominocorn]

Y'all do realize you can express your dislike of the new dashboard, Tumblr Live, and whatever else you hate about this site WITHOUT resorting to death and suicide threats? Right?

Would you threaten to slit your own throat in Starbucks because the barista put too much cream in your coffee?

Would you tell a mechanic who tried to upsell you that you would strangle them?

Or do you recognize that making violent threats at service workers is bad, in which case, why do you think it's okay to do to service workers online?

I honestly don't know what's going on with y'all: either you think that making graphic, violent threats at strangers is perfectly acceptable behavior, or you're legitimately so distressed about change that it makes you violent/suicidal.

I'm really hoping it's the former and that y'all just need to relearn your dang manners.

Stop making violent and suicidal threats at people.

[parkeryangs]

me, dragging a bed up from the basement sleep lab:

random nurse: where are u going

??? idk maybe. the room you transferred a pt from. that has no bed in it. bc you transferred the pt. ????

[smoothoperador]

oh job applications ... how i missed you job applications

[pynkhues]

FINALLY sent off this suite of policy documents to a client, and I can feel already that she's going to have an issue with one of them.

[ivy-saurs]

i find it wild when i hear about the perks that come with some corporate jobs… free gym memberships?? private healthcare coverage??