Ask Lemmy

I'm an IT purchaser for a public health system. Get rid of me and my colleagues and the system would keep ticking over for years in some form.

But I'm a small part of something very important.

Yeah, although I admit that I thought biotech was the most interesting and important thing I wanted to do back when I chose it over 20 years ago, but knowing what I do now, I wish I had gone into machine learning instead.

My job is unimportant. I manage a bakery that I do not own. But I can’t do it poorly. Like even though I literally do not care if the building burns to the ground, I still act like Customer Service Barbie as soon as I’m clocked in.

Indirectly important. I help make the tools others use to do important things. Or rather I'm learning to. I'd say that what I do is as much art as precise science. The pay is a bit knaff but it's interesting work.

No, but yes. I was laid off. But, it was because my employer was a federal contractor in the USA who suffered at the hands of DOGE. We were doing good stuff, actively helping others, so I was quite proud of it. It was also important, important enough that people could literally be dying -- other than the fact that the people who managed to stay behind and are now doing the job of 3 or more folks are managing to barely keep things going.

I work in a slaughterhouse so I'd say my job is important till all of humanity goes vegetarian (which I don't think even the most diehard vegetarian or vegan believes will happen in my lifetime). Am I proud of it? No, but I'm not proud of anything I do.

My job is important but I feel that either I'm not equipped enough for it or that my users don't get value out of it.

Without getting too specific, I'm a data engineer that is doing ETL work for maintenance data. So it could allow the business users to optimize the business and potentially lower a large carbon footprint while also saving the company millions.

I have a devops background so I really just need to git gud at databases and data engineering

I started a new role this week and I feel like my job is too important. A lot of self-doubt this week.

I have faith that I'll handle things, though.

However, I am concerned that my job is morphing into something less than what I care for. It feels like we're moving to a low-code solution, but personally, I want to get technical.

I definitely do. The companies' key product for the last decade was developed by me.

I don't think my job is particularly inportant, but I'm definitely proud to do it. I work in repair at a small model train electronics producer. I fix the electronics for customers and also do a bit of customer support.

Unlike a lot of companies where you just get crappy outsourced call center support and if your thing's broken you just get a new one (with all your settings reset of course), my company actually fixes people's stuff. I love that I get to do that, and individually help people. It's also stimulating because customers manage the weirdest things sometimes, and I get to figure out what, why, and how.