I am an IT guy, I have worked in the industry for 15 or so years now.
I have thought about plenty other jobs I would find interesting, here are a few:
Street View driver - I love driving and finding odd roads while listening to audio books, podcasts or music.
Orchard manager - this just seem great, you could even include tech into it, by say making a system to monitor the soil and alert you if you need to take action.
Building photographer - being hired to go out to buildings that needs to be documented before major changes and photgraphing them.
Orchard Manager sounds fucking awesome. Please let me play with autonomous drones, GIS, and data crunching so that I can be a modern day Lorax. I’ll even grow that massive mustache if it helps. I feel like I might get caught between the environment and the corporate interests in the end.
Yeah, I saw a few episodes of Clarkson’s Farm (like him or not, he is a brilliant storyteller) when he tested out some automated farm machines, and the command center he hsd looked quite cool.
Imagine running an orchard you put sensors in the soil by each tree, you get info about rhe moisture, oxygen content, and temp if the soil and can monitor each tree automatically, and make sure they all have what they need. I don’t know if you can put a static detector and monitor the live mineral content of the soil, but that would be bloody brilliant.
Sadly the building photographer role is just an intern or the planner themselves with a phone these days. Very few jobs hire actual photographers anymore.
Source: I’m a professional photographer that finds whatever work I can.
The closest I’ve found is a gig work thing that will pay like $20 for you to photograph billboards for an hour. Once or twice they offered like $80 to photograph a warehouse for a prospective client. Tried it a few times around the COVID era. Those years really sucked for me.
Other than that, there’s still some real estate work out there, but only for very expensive properties.
Hehe, I have seen pictures in digital archives from museums when they documented nuclear powerplants, gasworks and other cool places, I guess I have been romantizising that… (:
iirc street view drivers have a somewhat regulated area they need to cover. It’s sadly not driving around randomly through the country and finding weird roads to cover
I am an IT guy, I have worked in the industry for 15 or so years now.
I have thought about plenty other jobs I would find interesting, here are a few:
Street View driver - I love driving and finding odd roads while listening to audio books, podcasts or music.
Orchard manager - this just seem great, you could even include tech into it, by say making a system to monitor the soil and alert you if you need to take action.
Building photographer - being hired to go out to buildings that needs to be documented before major changes and photgraphing them.
Orchard Manager sounds fucking awesome. Please let me play with autonomous drones, GIS, and data crunching so that I can be a modern day Lorax. I’ll even grow that massive mustache if it helps. I feel like I might get caught between the environment and the corporate interests in the end.
Yeah, I saw a few episodes of Clarkson’s Farm (like him or not, he is a brilliant storyteller) when he tested out some automated farm machines, and the command center he hsd looked quite cool.
Imagine running an orchard you put sensors in the soil by each tree, you get info about rhe moisture, oxygen content, and temp if the soil and can monitor each tree automatically, and make sure they all have what they need. I don’t know if you can put a static detector and monitor the live mineral content of the soil, but that would be bloody brilliant.
Sadly the building photographer role is just an intern or the planner themselves with a phone these days. Very few jobs hire actual photographers anymore.
Source: I’m a professional photographer that finds whatever work I can.
The closest I’ve found is a gig work thing that will pay like $20 for you to photograph billboards for an hour. Once or twice they offered like $80 to photograph a warehouse for a prospective client. Tried it a few times around the COVID era. Those years really sucked for me.
Other than that, there’s still some real estate work out there, but only for very expensive properties.
I mostly do weddings and events and such.
Hehe, I have seen pictures in digital archives from museums when they documented nuclear powerplants, gasworks and other cool places, I guess I have been romantizising that… (:
I want to raise heirloom pork breeds and mushrooms for fancy restaurants, plus a big garden for me and mine.
iirc street view drivers have a somewhat regulated area they need to cover. It’s sadly not driving around randomly through the country and finding weird roads to cover
Those sound like some good opportunities.