Urban design.

Technically I’m an architect, studied in Delft, but I rolled into urban design during my career so far. From crude sketch to detailed technical drawing. I work at a municipality mostly on streets, pedestrian areas and green spaces, but have worked at a studio prior to this. Quite a prestigious one actually. Urban design here is something different from architecture. Broadly stated architecture is about buildings, and urban design is about public space. My work has a big overlap with landscape-architecture. To broadly explain that, a landscape architect thinks about “what” we’re going to do, and I think about “how” were going to do it.

Urban design is actually not really the correct term for my current job specifically, but I struggle to come up with a better one. This is because designing the environment here in the Netherlands has culturally become quite an elaborate field with many different professions and a variety of expertise. I guess that’s why there’s the saying “God created the Earth but the Dutch created The Netherlands.”

Anyway, chauvinism aside, yeah, I like what I do a lot. But then again what’s not to like about imagining how things should look!

Others see the efforts of the Dutch as well:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/

https://what-if.xkcd.com/54/

I mostly work as Data Scientist in a non-profit institute. In practice most of our clients are big private companies hiring us to do R&D projects

I'd say my work is 40% designing and training machine learning models, 30% writing data pipelines to provide information to my models and 30% deploying infrastructure and applications to make use of my models

That’s funny, but also an interesting little read.

Biochemist. I currently work in a company that creates GM crops for pest control. Most days I'm either designing new proteins, or expressing and testing proteins I designed before. Lately I've changed methodology to test as many proteins as possible as quickly as I can which has been very fun on my end. Moving from testing 20-30 a week to 800-900. Rest of my time is meetings to talk about the various projects that are going on.

I'm very happy that I managed to get a job in protein engineering/design. Was a dream in grad school that required quite a bit of extra training to accomplish.

It's her, yup! We got hitched last year.

We're playing Split Fiction together now, as per the Mehr recommendation.

That's awesome! Congrats! Obviously my recommendation sealed the deal, but no need to thank me. ;)

To me there is a good and bad side to your job.

Good side, if I ever come under a Zombie attack I can turn to you to bioengineer me some plants for a real life Plants vs Zombies.

Bad side, those GM beanstalks you sold me for my dairy herd (inflation) that you designed to grow extra large and extra quick end up with me being chased by an angry giant yelling fee fi fo thumb.

Me a project officer