This is beautiful, thanks for sharing
Knickknack
joined 1 year ago
Hey you know what? I saw a post about this yesterday (it was probably you!) and thought it sounded like an incredibly valuable pursuit. I will definitely check it out, thank for the links.
It's good to hear about people giving the industry a try! There is really so much career opportunity, and it's not going anywhere. I've weather multiple recessions, housing crises, economic booms and downturns in this industry and it is just steady, because it is so essential. I hope more people consider it as a career because the field is suffering for lack of licensed professionals.
That's so cool, and thank you. I often think I would have loved to study a chemistry or engineering discipline, if I had been more in touch with my abilities and interests as an 18 year old starting college. I did complete what was a newer degree at the time called environmental technology, and it was geared toward renewal energy technologies with a lot of various science based courses as backbone. But certainly, the industry has changed a lot even in the time I've been involved, starting as a hazardous waste site remediation project manager for an environmental consultant, then got water and wastewater treatment licenses in 2005 when I saw an opportunity to get in on an emerging sector in the company I was working for. Right now the industry is struggling for licensed professionals, even while regulators push ahead in requiring more and more use of the technology. Should be interesting to see how it develops over the coming years. Overall though, I had been very fortunate to truly enjoy my career and the industry I work in.
I'll miss all the "spooky" communities, they are what brought me to Reddit in the first place way (way, way...) back in the day. Nosleep, creepy, aliens, thetruthishere, etc. There's lots of them, of varying quality these days but I regularly enjoyed the discussions and theorizing over the years.
Shout out to unresolved mysteries, that was a long term favorite of mine. At its best it was a respectful and helpful community of true crime researchers working to bring attention to cases. I am truly fascinated in evaluations of cases of misadventure, as well.
I might miss the movie discussions most, though. I love nothing more than picking apart an interesting story and getting under the obvious themes. I would regularly go directly to the official movie discussion threads after watching something I enjoyed, then search posts about it as well. I hope to find others here with the same interest because I'm sure that is something that can continue in the fediverse.
I studied environmental science as a major and am working in hazardous waste site remediation, water and wastewater treatment, and dabble in assisting some civil engineering projects.
Hi everyone! I just arrived here from Reddit, and am looking forward to getting to know Beehaw's communities. I think my discord bio described me best: geriatric millennial, entertainment junkie (books, shows, movies, news, gossip), nature enjoyer. I'm a member of the LGBTQIA community, involved in science fields by trade, and on a perpetual mission to learn new things. Happy to be here.
This is why I'm not sweating it when Reddit didn't immediately implode and die due to the protests and blackouts. It's going to take time, but if they keep going in the direction they are, eventually only the low lifes will want to be there.