Not really a "job" so to speak (since it has a -$15,000 /year salary), but I'm an undergraduate in engineering physics, and anyone who says that online classes are "better" must own stock in Zoom.
It's significantly more work, significantly more time, twice as fatiguing. I've found that forcing myself to do homework in somewhere other than my desk helps, since sitting in the same room for ~15 hours a day, 6 days a week is not sustainable even in the short term.
Most of my professors have been very understanding and helpful, recording all of their lectures, holding generous office hours and giving extensions to anyone who needs them. The physics professors especially have been incredibly helpful, even offering to postpone exams by several days for those who needed it because of family challenges or what not.
It's significantly more work, significantly more time, twice as fatiguing. I've found that forcing myself to do homework in somewhere other than my desk helps, since sitting in the same room for ~15 hours a day, 6 days a week is not sustainable even in the short term.
Most of my professors have been very understanding and helpful, recording all of their lectures, holding generous office hours and giving extensions to anyone who needs them. The physics professors especially have been incredibly helpful, even offering to postpone exams by several days for those who needed it because of family challenges or what not.
I "retired" in 2018 but as I cannot survive on my state pension, I still have to work !!
My day job is as a gravity/magnetometer engineer and also a MMO/PAM operator in the offshore seismic industry.
I am just at the end of 2 weeks isolation/quarantine after my last job off west Africa was cancelled 2 weeks in. It took a further 3 weeks to arrive at Las Palmas in the Canaries before travel via Barcelona to the UK.
Working from home is impossible and there is no work in the offing for the next 4-5 months.
Andy
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My day job is as a gravity/magnetometer engineer and also a MMO/PAM operator in the offshore seismic industry.
I am just at the end of 2 weeks isolation/quarantine after my last job off west Africa was cancelled 2 weeks in. It took a further 3 weeks to arrive at Las Palmas in the Canaries before travel via Barcelona to the UK.
Working from home is impossible and there is no work in the offing for the next 4-5 months.
Andy
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I currently do what work I can from home, documentation for projects, but a big part of my work is on-site QC during new building projects or renovations to existing buildings. I am an IT Specialist at the University of Pretoria, and specialise in cabling (UTP and Fibre,) the related infrastucture and network rooms, cabinets and the network equipment and peripherals. Using this time to go over standards, update documentation and prepare for the anticipated catch-up once the lock-down is lifted.
Kevin
P.S. Also using this time do start soldering up some PCBs.
Kevin
P.S. Also using this time do start soldering up some PCBs.
Software Test Engineer working from home. We recently worked overtime to implement changes for COVID-19 that were critical to our customers since our software is used by EMS, Fire, Hospital, and State repositories. We're learning a good deal about the pandemic.
I am a systems administrator doing operations with a financial services company. I have been working from home since Mar 6 I think, though I just worked from home that Friday to save the commute. It became mandatory on Mar 9. So I am in my 7th consecutive week working from home full time.
I will add that my company has tens of thousands of employees all over the world, and right now 96% of us are working from home. There was initial concern about whether the infra could handle it, but it's been fine (though I did notice one day I was routed through servers in London to get to my virtual desktop in New York (I'm in Montreal), but the latency wasn't bad. I am impressed that we scaled up so well. The phone systems not so much.
I will add that my company has tens of thousands of employees all over the world, and right now 96% of us are working from home. There was initial concern about whether the infra could handle it, but it's been fine (though I did notice one day I was routed through servers in London to get to my virtual desktop in New York (I'm in Montreal), but the latency wasn't bad. I am impressed that we scaled up so well. The phone systems not so much.
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I'm 55, pre-retired from the Portuguese State Bank. (They had to release some employees to obey the EU with help funds. In Our case 4 Thousand Million €).
Last weeks of National Emergency status, I've spent refurbishing / repairing my old Pioneer 40 Year old Stereo System, Still awaiting for a broken part for the turntable I've ordered from an Ebay USA seller, probably awaiting a plane to Europe because of this Chinese disease. I've learned electronics at high school, and after that in the Internet / Books etc, so I did it always as hobby.
Last weeks of National Emergency status, I've spent refurbishing / repairing my old Pioneer 40 Year old Stereo System, Still awaiting for a broken part for the turntable I've ordered from an Ebay USA seller, probably awaiting a plane to Europe because of this Chinese disease. I've learned electronics at high school, and after that in the Internet / Books etc, so I did it always as hobby.
I am web designer and developer, I do photos for photo stock agencies and I stopped doing computer support due to the covid. Actually I have 5 new web dev deals because of covid. One will be eshop. Now I'm busy more than before on the other hand, I will always find some time for soldering 🙂 I work from home last 10 years. I'm happy I forgot what is morning alarm clock 😀
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Nope. No work at all. My job depends completely on public gatherings of more than 10 people. All that stopped on the Ides of March. No work and no possibility of working from home.
Business as usual, orders for the next two-three months, full speed running in the office. Though returns of broken equipment are less then usual. And that's good news: now I've spare time to tidy my bench, because it does not even remotely resembles #1. And I have double-plus that space on my own filled with boxes (opened and unopened), things, piles, stocks (white, gray and very black), quotation-approvals, rma's, what not. And paperwork covering the keyboards of the three computers (7, 10 and a recent osx). Reminds me to select and order parts tomorrow. What is covid?
I'm an IT manager, with a tour operator. I'm working 3 days out of 5 from home. (We're on work share).
I've been working on the side developing a website myself (it's kind of audio-related), hopefully, I can get some online sales. (but I need to find something to sell first).
I've been working on the side developing a website myself (it's kind of audio-related), hopefully, I can get some online sales. (but I need to find something to sell first).
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I work from hone anyway so no change there.
Sell on ebay mostly so as long post system is working I can make some money.
Much of my sales is downloads anyway.
Sell on ebay mostly so as long post system is working I can make some money.
Much of my sales is downloads anyway.
Technical support and inside sales for ABB-Baldor motors.
I'm working from home. I'm just glad to be working.
I'm working from home. I'm just glad to be working.
I design and manufacture Guitar amps, including in-house made speakers, transformers, boards, chassis, cabinets, etc. and moved long ago from a posh neighbourhood appartment with a separate rented workplace to an all-in-one live-and-work huge 19 room home in the Buenos Aires Port area (60 meters away from the actual River and Port) where I work and live, so closing the door to everybody, including Family and Customers didn´t change much everyday routine. Always buy stuff in bulk , such as Electronics components by the closed case straight from Importer, Tolex by the full rolls, packs of 3 or 10 whole MDF boards, adhesives by the 18 to 24 kg can and so on, so have kept working almost as normal, only at reduced speed because sales have plummeted to 10% normal , I have to get a special City "circulation permit" (valid for just 1 day) to go anywhere, etc.
But this is non-perishable stuff, so shelves full of wound transformers, populated but unmounted boards, cut-bent-punched-painted-silkscreened (but empty) chassis and so on will *someday* be used ... I hope.
It could be worse, much worse.
I have tons of young adult customers living with wife and 2 too active kids in a 2 room appartment, usually bearable because everybody is outside most of the day (school-work-shopping-visiting friends-whatever) so they only are there to dine and sleep ... and now looking at each other´s faces all day long, 24/7, doing nothing.
Tensions QUICKLY flare up.
Sorry for them.
But this is non-perishable stuff, so shelves full of wound transformers, populated but unmounted boards, cut-bent-punched-painted-silkscreened (but empty) chassis and so on will *someday* be used ... I hope.
It could be worse, much worse.
I have tons of young adult customers living with wife and 2 too active kids in a 2 room appartment, usually bearable because everybody is outside most of the day (school-work-shopping-visiting friends-whatever) so they only are there to dine and sleep ... and now looking at each other´s faces all day long, 24/7, doing nothing.
Tensions QUICKLY flare up.
Sorry for them.
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Manager at high tech firm, open and running with production coming in, everyone else working from home.
I go in once a week, listen to employees, otherwise I work full-time at home on the kitchen table. Lots of zoom, phone calls, emails etc. I also have both kids at home, so in addition to the day job I shop, cook, clean, repair. Kids aren’t super happy about the lock down and I can safely say the high speed internet connection is earning it’s fee. No time for recreation or hobbies, but that’s been normal for some before the lock down so no adjustment needed.
The 3 of us are luckier than many. I feel bad for millions of families that have lost their income. And thousands more that have lost loved one’s. It’s tough, we gotta look out for each other a bit more than we’ve been doing so far.
I go in once a week, listen to employees, otherwise I work full-time at home on the kitchen table. Lots of zoom, phone calls, emails etc. I also have both kids at home, so in addition to the day job I shop, cook, clean, repair. Kids aren’t super happy about the lock down and I can safely say the high speed internet connection is earning it’s fee. No time for recreation or hobbies, but that’s been normal for some before the lock down so no adjustment needed.
The 3 of us are luckier than many. I feel bad for millions of families that have lost their income. And thousands more that have lost loved one’s. It’s tough, we gotta look out for each other a bit more than we’ve been doing so far.
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I work in the healthcare industry and we are quite busy as usual. I run a plant where we process all the medical waste from hospitals, dentistry, veterinary, lab research, fisheries and oceans, wildlife etc etc. So Biomedical, Cytotoxic, Pharmacological, and Anatomical waste etc.
Very thankful to be working as an essential part of the cycle of things.
Where I am in NB we have only 118 confirmed cases of Covid 19 and no deaths thankfully.
Unfortunately our new multi million dollar plant in Quebec is overdue by almost 2 months now, so our plant has been taking on much of their work. Quebec has 22,616 Covid 19 cases and 1340 deaths.
Can't wait till there plant gets up and running but glad we can do our part to help them out ..
Very thankful to be working as an essential part of the cycle of things.
Where I am in NB we have only 118 confirmed cases of Covid 19 and no deaths thankfully.
Unfortunately our new multi million dollar plant in Quebec is overdue by almost 2 months now, so our plant has been taking on much of their work. Quebec has 22,616 Covid 19 cases and 1340 deaths.
Can't wait till there plant gets up and running but glad we can do our part to help them out ..
Retired, been about a year since prostate removal surgery which left me in a weakened state I can still feel. Keeping myself busy creating PPE from stuff you can still buy on ebay.
One design involves a hood, another a modified full face swim mask idea I copied. Both are pressurized with filtered air, using centrifugal pumps originally meant for inflation or rack server cooling.
I've been playing with creating an airflow measurement device; a 6" tube crammed with plastic drinking straws to create a laminar flow element. The back-pressure this imparts to airflows I'm trying to measure is so small I cant measure it with any pressure sensor I have on hand - until I walk to the mailbox to get my +/- 0.8" WC sensor I bought from ebay and connect it up. Calibration will be the next problem...
Personally, I think both-way fully isolating PPE is the only way to go in order to "open things back up". I know they'll eventually do it anyway and people will go about business as usual completely unprotected - or minimally so. I've found it's actually pretty easy to create something (that's a lot better than nothing) which can serve to protect both ways - breathing in and out.
Now if I can only figure out how to make it so you can drink a beer while wearing one of these things...
One design involves a hood, another a modified full face swim mask idea I copied. Both are pressurized with filtered air, using centrifugal pumps originally meant for inflation or rack server cooling.
I've been playing with creating an airflow measurement device; a 6" tube crammed with plastic drinking straws to create a laminar flow element. The back-pressure this imparts to airflows I'm trying to measure is so small I cant measure it with any pressure sensor I have on hand - until I walk to the mailbox to get my +/- 0.8" WC sensor I bought from ebay and connect it up. Calibration will be the next problem...
Personally, I think both-way fully isolating PPE is the only way to go in order to "open things back up". I know they'll eventually do it anyway and people will go about business as usual completely unprotected - or minimally so. I've found it's actually pretty easy to create something (that's a lot better than nothing) which can serve to protect both ways - breathing in and out.
Now if I can only figure out how to make it so you can drink a beer while wearing one of these things...
I work in the Merchant Marine and live on property in rural Georgia. Other than my once a month 660 mile drive to work becoming exponentially easier my life has changed very little.
Actually not all true, after not leaving home in my two weeks off I have realized how much I spend on fuel and eating out. I have a new found appreciation for cooking, I haven’t cooked this much since I was a deckhand.
Actually not all true, after not leaving home in my two weeks off I have realized how much I spend on fuel and eating out. I have a new found appreciation for cooking, I haven’t cooked this much since I was a deckhand.