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What's the coolest place your job has taken you? (self.engineering)
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Have you worked in remote areas, restricted sites, or just unusual places that most people don't get to see? What was it like?

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[–] LucyLastic 2 points 1 year ago

My work has been a bit varied, so places I've been (professionally) that might count as unusual include the bottom of a canal, the "cemetery" of a steel works, various test tracks, a ballistic armour plate testing facility, sled impact testing facilities, a restricted government facility, the basement of a haunted Victorian manor house, a slaughterhouse, inside the front of a ship that had been cut off and was sideways, and behind the wheel of most hypercars currently on sale.

How it felt was never as surreal as it sounds to other people when I'm talking about it, because I was working. I often felt that I'd like to just poke around and have a play, but that's never really happened and not being able to take personal photos really puts a dampener on things.