Cybersecurity
Basically, everything involving IT
Idk. A lot of shitty infrastructure that works can go by unnoticed for a long time. So not everything in IT. Just when it breaks or isnt maintained.
Yes, you’re absolutely right. I was thinking more about maintenance, so that the infrastructure doesn’t break down in the first place, which would definitely be noticeable.
Basic personal hygiene
Disease prevention.
Everyone hates on disease prevention when it works (“Why should we wear masks?!?”) but wants to know what went wrong when it doesn’t work (“10,000 people died from a disease that was preventable. Why didn’t you tell us to wear masks?!?”).
epidemiology of diseases, yea when china hid both news and data of sars 1 and 2 something was wrong when it was showing up magically in many countries at once.
Schooling, common public services.
Road asphalt/concrete/whatever the fuck it is these days.
You might notice it immediately after a stretch has been repaved/freshly paved, but once you’re driving over it daily, you tend to not notice it.
However… if it’s badly done with bumps or dips or mounds, it’s definitely noticeable.
Finally, if it’s not done at all and the road is a mess of potholes is impossible to not notice.
Government.
Sterile processing - department that cleans and sterilizes surgical instruments. The OR loves to bitch up a storm when we find a trace of blood or something from a previous surgery left over in an instrument set. And it is a big deal - that splotch of blood can carry viable pathogens even after going through a sterilizer, which can cause a nasty or even fatal infection; so that set and every part of the sterile field it touched needs to be replaced, which is timely and expensive.
But… SPD is an extremely monotonous, uncomfortable, high stress (they know what’s at stake) job that absolutely melts your brain, and we like to forget that they aren’t perfect little robots.
Check your sets before bringing the damn patient into the room, preferably on an isolated mayo stand so if the set is fucked you don’t contaminate the entire field - fix it and move on!
SPD are friends, not food!
autoclaving, i remember i was watching someon yt how they worked in a hospital and they had to destroy surgical instruments of PRION- disease patients, rather than cleaning it
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. I’ve run into that a single time in the ~decade I’ve been a surgical tech. Yeah once an instrument is used on a CJD patient, it becomes trash.
In the case I was in, we knew it was coming ahead of time, so we coordinated with SPD to basically peel pack every instrument of every set that would normally be used in that case. So, instead of one sterile toolbox full of instruments, we had like 200 individual peel packs. Also a lot of single use disposables. We opened the bare minimum to get started, and waited on everything else until the surgeon specifically asked for it. All of the garbage from that case - instruments, drapes, peel packs, even the sharps iirc - was isolated and sent for some heightened tier of destruction compared to normal medical trash.
That was a weird day.
Painting cars is the ultimate job of invisibility. Your biggest triumphs as a painter are jobs that go entirely unnoticed.
radio access network (cell coverage)
Plasterboard joins.
Wiping.
Dishes
Data backups.
Makeup and plastic surgery
Unironically steak.
