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Those of you with lesser-known types of jobs...what do you do? (lemmy.world)

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Also, how did you get into it, and what sort of education or certifications (if any) did you need?

And if you were to get into the same niche today, would you? (And in some cases--COULD you, or has the door closed?)

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[-] moistclump@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I basically failed out of engineering. It turns out I care more about people and systems, so I have a job at a City doing something called Asset Management. Which means I coordinate all the different ways the different departments take care of their infrastructure, and plan for the City to keep doing what they do for 50, 100 years out.

It’s a bit of people, relationships, organization work, finance, engineering, operations, data analytics, planning, risk mitigation, public consultation, blah blah blah. I’ve moved up in the industry to the point where I’m helping other city’s do similar work.

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