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What the actual fuck... I need to find someone who is deeply familiar with the types of jobs a person could have.
If you told me "chocolate technology specialist" was a thing, I'd have probably gone to college for it. Instead I'm stuck in a factory, just dreaming about chocolate... And then going home and eating it lol
I know someone who did go into food science to get into a chocolate production factory - they were done eating chocolate for good after their first 6 months.
Turns out all you can eat samples is a great way to get food fatigued real fast.
The best way to hate something you love is to make it your job.
That's no fucking joke. I started with a passion for learning about computers. I love what I do now because I'm a one man company and answer only to myself and my contracts, but I didn't turn on a computer outside of work for fucking years because of the burnout.
I was once at some children party thingy where they had free cotton candy. My friend and I ate so much that we completely swore off of the stuff for all eternity.
Then I went and got married to a gal with a cotton candy machine...
Not if you work at a brewery.
Only if you are an alcoholic.
My favorite local non alcoholic beer exists because one of the owners drank so hard he got health issues and his doctor told him he had to stop.
My brother in law did similar…worked in a chicken factory, not in production, for a while…put him off chicken for a year or so.
I'm a system integrator, and though I don't do it right now, I'd consider myself an expert in dairy. I could see someone specializing in chocolate similarly.
The reason people don't know about these jobs is because they aren't advertised very well. My MS in mechanical engineering barely touched on it and I sort of fell into it on accident by knowing someone in the industry.
Edit: thinking about it for a moment, I actually did some work for a European chocolate producer about a decade ago
How does one find about these jobs? I think my dream job will be something obscure like this but I don't know what to pick for university because I don't know what obscure job it'll be.
It depends what you want to do. System integration is sort of the broad name for people in my field. Its a software stack sort of like how networking layers work. Controls->scada->MES->janky messaging connector->SAP with other random stuff sprinkled in. The Wikipedia article has an OK introduction to it.
If your interested take a controls class that actually uses Rockwell or Siemens PLCs, not the theoretical stuff. There is also open source stuff that runs on arduino or other controllers.
Or see if you like programming. Python is used for inductive automations Ignition SCADA and visual basic/C# is AVEVAs wonder ware. Their are others out there, these are the ones I've used.
You can wind up in some pretty weird jobs just by putting in the right terms off your resume into job boards. When I was looking for jobs a few years ago, "bilingual supervisor" on indeed landed me a two year stint as the supervisor for the night shift in a pharmaceutical plant. I managed to get that despite not simply lacking a degree in a relevant field, but a college degree at all (working on it now), but simply because I was masochistic enough use SAP at work for 5 years and apply for another job that needed someone who could make sense of it, and I could speak Spanish.
If you have a degree, I'm sure there are more options that would open up for you, but you might only find them searching for things in pretty vague terms and seeing if anything pops up as being interesting. The downside is, you'll probably see a lot of irrelevant stuff, but you also come across some wild stuff. After I got laid off from that job and had sent out applications from normal searching of job boards, I took a look at some less specific searches and came across some weird stuff, like a company that was hiring a production supervisor for their facility making probiotic dog yogurt.