Canada: Contract Geologist Canada/Africa: Project Manager/Contract Geologist Africa: Contract Geologist Canada: Chief Geophysicist

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For example: I had to customize a plastic part for some geophysical equipment -- and find a plastic machinist willing to make it for me. That was the first time I've had to do that since starting my own business. It's been three years and I still sometimes catch myself wondering: "isn't there someone I'm supposed to be asking for approval from before I take decisions?"

Copy of post I made to r/geologycareers -- for posterity

Speaking unofficially: I'm a mod and long time user of r/geologycareers. It's one of my favourite corners on Reddit. I love this community, and have nothing but the utmost regard for my fellow mods.

If this reddit protest, and reddit's response are bumming you out and you're thinking of bailing, may I gently suggest one of the federated networks. Kbin.social, Mastadon, Lemmy, or similar.

I've personally set up on lemmy.ca and initiated geoscience communities there. They're about as quiet as you'd expect -- the equivalent of a brand new subreddit. But, if you'd like to grow a similar community feel on another network, come find me. Either directly on lemmy.ca, or from any of the federated networks.

lemmy.ca/c/geology -- !geology@lemmy.ca lemmy.ca/c/geophysics -- !geophysics@lemmy.ca lemmy.ca/c/mining -- !mining@lemmy.ca lemmy.ca/c/geologycareers -- !geologycareers@lemmy.ca

I've been through this before. Dialup BBS->Usenet->Slashdot->Digg->Reddit. Each time you transition a community, it takes a while to rebuild the feel.

In the meantime, I'll still do my mod duties here. After all, the community is why I'm here. Just inflating a lifeboat. :)

I've been a moderator of r/geologycareers for a long time. However, with reddit potentially in a death rattle at the moment, I decided to spin this up as an alternative. I do this independently of my other reddit mods, however am inviting them to join. r/geologycareers has always been a bright spot within reddit, and it would be a shame if it were to die without a viable alternative landing spot being available.

This community was spun up on lemmy.ca, however it should be available on all Lemmy servers. It is not exclusively Canadian content.

Feel free to post a lot for now, just to make the community feel alive and welcoming here. When everything blows over, maybe reddit survives and this was wholly unnecessary from a community perspective. But maybe it was necessary.