If you don't work IT, retail, or food service what do you do for work?

SSTF@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 290 points –

Sometimes on Lemmy these seem like the only jobs that actually exist, but I'm sure there's a lot of people here with different and unusual lines of work.

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Thanks for helping make sure I don't shit myself to death. I assume you help with that.

Actually COVID is one of the most used tests they do, at least around here. But you can do things like drug use, cancer epidemiology (for some cancers), etc. as well - and that is incredibly helpful from a public health point of view.

Because it's just like with Covid - we can't get proper data from patient sided tests because we can't test everyone. And even if we could,not everyone would.

But everybody poops/pees. And guys like OP interpolate from that.

The government is stealing our poop!1!!1

As Philpo said, we mainly do covid, but we can do Norovirus, which is a common GI virus that can give you the shits.