• @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    I’m just a bored guy who makes drawings for a living.

    How in the world did you do this? I ask this because that unironically sounds awesome (though it is possible it is not from your perspective).

    • @CADmonkey
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      21 year ago

      There’s a terrible secret: I’m not making art, I am making drawings. I’m a draftsman.

      And even among drafters my job is a bit strange. I work for a place that refurbishes large parts for places like refineries, power plants, water treatment plants, and even rocket launch facilities all over the world. We rebuild parts for plants that cannot shut down, or can’t shut down for long. I’m sort of an emergency draftsman. My job consists of waiting for someone to drop either a scralwed drawing (sometimes literally drawn on a torn off piece of cardboard) or a broken piece of something, at which point I leap into action, and create a 3d model and a 2D drawing of whatever it is, so a replacement can be made in the machine shop.

      This specific job sort of fell in my lap when I was laid off from another drafting job in january. I’m largely self-taught, and I have a couple decades experience as a machinist, fabricator, and mechanic, it helps if the guy making the prints knows how to make the parts himself.