Tell me one interesting fact about your job that most people outside wouldn't know

Steel does not contain water.
When you heat steel with a torch, water will form several inches away in all directions from the flame.
This occurs because the gas being burned to produce the flame is a hydrocarbon, which is composed of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon.
When consumed in a chemical reaction such as a flame, the by-products are mainly carbon dioxide and water.
As the hot gases from the flame containing this water get farther away from the flame, the cooler temperatures of the ambient air and steel surface cause the water to condense out of the gases and collect on the surface of the steel plate.
This phenomenon appears to be water coming out of the steel, which we all know is impossible.

Most soldiers don't actually see combat. I usually don't shoot my rifle unless I'm qualifying or doing target practice!

It’s amazing to me how foolish people can be and think they can get away with it.

I’m a risk/loss, fraud, and arson investigator/consultant. People try to avoid me, never return calls or don’t show up to scheduled meetings.

Lie to me, hide things and coverups are just going to make me angry and then I am going to surveil your every move and find everything there is to find out and then you will surely be very upset when I take your business license, your ability to get insurance for seven years at any price.

It’s best not to poke investigator and make my job harder bc I could have been sympathetic had they acted in good faith with me.

That is very interesting. My family, on my dad's side, were bakers going back generations. Everything was made from scratch. There are both chain "bakeries," from Dunkin Donuts, which have their donuts delivered every day, to others that receive prepared dough, like Paneras, to local ones that still make the dough from scratch. The local bagel store has it's bakery behind it, and you actually see bags of high gluten flour they use. The larger supermarkets also bake fresh, again you see their big, industrial mixers.

I am an actuarist who models risk on behalf of a pension fund.

Most people are functionally innumerate and incapable of making rational financial decisions. With declining trust in professional advisors and myriad ways in which to lose large amounts of money quickly on the internet, this makes for turbulence in financial markets 😐

One keystroke can mean the difference in life and death in emergencies.

Two thirds of guitar students give up learning theory when the subject of 'Modes' comes up.
Modes are a natural part of music theory.
No sax or piano players struggle with Modes ..only guitar players.

It’s not glamorous but it’s very interesting to say the least

The pellets we make are actually super safe. Someone even "accidentally" swallowed one with no ill effects or radiation damage.

Office jobs can be exhausting. I used to do manual labor exclusively. Lots of heavy lifting and bending but it was a completely different kind of exertion to sit at a desk all day and have high powered executives micromanaging you all day.

People think Modelling is glamorous and easy. While it is to some extent glamorous it is hard work and physically demanding 🙂

I work part-time as a front desk hotel clerk. We're required to exact hidden charges and to lie about their 'beneficial' nature. The money goes straight to the owner.

There is nothing interesting about finance.

I have The fact that I get to supervise projects all across the world is one of the most exciting aspects of my profession. Among these activities are visits to clients' locations and participation in trade shows and conventions. This can be both thrilling and draining, since it requires me to stay in a variety of hotels and airports to keep tabs on the progress of the various projects I oversee. On the other hand, it helps me expand my knowledge of the fields in which I work and the wants and needs of my target demographic. I've just shared what's on my mind; if you want me to do anything else, give me orders. 😄😄😄

I work in insurance……. Soooooo 🫤

Part of my job is to make visible and explicit what others "know" but as "self evident".

I work less than 40 hours a week.

I lick every hamburger bun before i wrap it up and send it out

Very few people have absolute pitch. The scientific explanation just isn't known. A lecturer at college once asked if anyone present actually had it. Nobody put their hand up including me, because occasionally it seems to temporarily go, especially if one is nervous about making a fool of oneself. But 95% of the time if I hear a certain pitch I can name the key on the piano that will reproduce it. It has to be some kind of freak of memory, possibly connected with my father being a piano tuner although he didn't have it. Its really only of curiosity value. Recently watching something on tv I heard a sound that maintained a certain pitch even though it wasn't a musical instrument. I said "that's Bflat, a 7th. above middle C". My wife checked it on the piano and it was, even though I haven't played the piano for ages.

They start extremely early in the morning. We used to live in a flat above one and it was goodbye sleep. It did have its compensations.

Ehh it's hard without saying something proprietary, but people would be surprised to learn how often basic hardware delays affect aeroengine delivery dates lol

I knew some of the corporate stores did that. I didn’t realize the nice bakeries did it though.

The glamorous on-stage life isn't as nice as Hollywood and the red carpet wants it to seem. This killed my dream to have a career as an actor. It's a ruthless business where the word "too sick to do your job" simply is none existent.

If you work as an actor, there's no mercy, zero. You are sick? Puking? You will deliver, every single person in the team counts on you and so you'll go out on stage, do your thing, hold your shit or puke or blood in, til you are behind stage, where there's a bucket and perhaps a nurse waiting to patch you up.

I had a real bad influensa and fever, my voice felt like knives each time I spoke. I remember pouring a bottle of cough meds like a shot in between the acts. Just to be able use my voice. I have never pushed my body so much before. It was extremely unhealthy. And yet this is nothing compared to actors who are big. Who maybe are told to lose or gain weight for a character or something else extreme.

Let's just say I'm not jealous on any celebrity. And they deserve every penny for the work they go through for our entertainment.

The best way to run a bar, is to not drink.

Aha I knew that. I work in a bakery

the drunker people get, the more like toddlers they become
horny toddlers 😔

Since Covid and Brexit, school places have gone down thousands as people left the city. This means less money for schools. Yet the number of children and families needing fimancial support has increased. Our percentage of children needing financial support has doubled ftom 30 to 60%. We're one of many.

We're contract labor and not treated as employees under state laws.
Americans like this for my class. They're sadistic and selfish.

most of the cakes you get from bakeries come in frozen and prepared = TOTALLY INCORRECT

They are baked the morning before I pick them out after lunch,,,,,,,,,, sometimes I even help remove them from the oven, ice them & package