Most of the regular users here, when you talk to, you'll get the knowledge that they have been in the IT industry for quite some time. Or at least, in some other form of the tech industry.
Are there regular users here who hail from a different profession: like a medical officer, a non-technical engineer, a mechanic of sorts, athlete, cook, entrepreneur, social influencer, etc?
previously known as Discrete_BOB_058
I started in IT and switched to genomics after a few years. My job still involves a lot of computer work, but my work focuses on studying biological questions.
I'm also a member of a clandestine organization that fights crime and supervillains, but I can't say much about that for obvious reasons.
I'm a nuclear engineer and health physicist. I specifically didn't get into IT as a profession because I didn't want to lose my love of it as drudgery day job.
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I had initially worked in tech support, then moved on to system administration in a DTV specific context, then back to support, but this time in a more specific context with corporate customers.
Always worked in IT, but the field has changed quite dramatically. I started out in general system admin support, before moving in to database admin, middleware development and then infrastructure design. I currently focus on high performance and scientific computing - supporting scientists and research across engineering, science and medical disciplines.
My collection database and technical wiki:
https://www.target-earth.net
I got an advanced science degree and wasted it, at the time I emerged from my pupal stage ready to spread my wings, it was all "big science" with no funding elsewhere and they were just looking for obedient little drones. No fun. I was avoiding getting roped into defence industry either, we had plenty good enough ways of killing ppl already tyvm. So I bounced around a bit, making high quality switches here, building hydrant sized valves there, bounced over to Canada, found my degree wasn't even looked at here, more odd jobs. I have deliberately avoided going into IT, though somehow made money off computers several times in different ways, tangentially and otherwise. Always wanted to get my own thing going, but felt like the BB in a pinball machine for years, lots of family and situational drama that was a time sink. Wife is earning okay money now and I'm more or less medically retired. Strangely, I have apparently inspired ppl to take up IT by showing them how to build and fix computers. I have had a bit of a weird fragmented life really, every time I jumped ship for another one that was heading in the direction I wanted to go, it basically did a 90 degree turn and dropped me off somewhere else.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.
Ensign Nemo wrote on 2024-04-19, 20:19:I started in IT and switched to genomics after a few years. My job still involves a lot of computer work, but my work focuses on studying biological questions.
I'm also a member of a clandestine organization that fights crime and supervillains, but I can't say much about that for obvious reasons.
Don't believe him he works for the Gray aliens.
Shagittarius wrote on 2024-04-19, 23:29:Ensign Nemo wrote on 2024-04-19, 20:19:I started in IT and switched to genomics after a few years. My job still involves a lot of computer work, but my work focuses on studying biological questions.
I'm also a member of a clandestine organization that fights crime and supervillains, but I can't say much about that for obvious reasons.
Don't believe him he works for the Gray aliens.
Look what you've done! You've blown open the whole conspiracy! Now all the "chosen few", echo chamber educated, gullible morons on social media might never stop worshipping you.
Shagittarius wrote on 2024-04-19, 23:29:Ensign Nemo wrote on 2024-04-19, 20:19:I started in IT and switched to genomics after a few years. My job still involves a lot of computer work, but my work focuses on studying biological questions.
I'm also a member of a clandestine organization that fights crime and supervillains, but I can't say much about that for obvious reasons.
Don't believe him he works for the Gray aliens.
Since you blew my cover, I told my Gray friends that lube won't be needed during your scheduled probing!
Ensign Nemo wrote on 2024-04-20, 00:52:Shagittarius wrote on 2024-04-19, 23:29:Ensign Nemo wrote on 2024-04-19, 20:19:I started in IT and switched to genomics after a few years. My job still involves a lot of computer work, but my work focuses on studying biological questions.
I'm also a member of a clandestine organization that fights crime and supervillains, but I can't say much about that for obvious reasons.
Don't believe him he works for the Gray aliens.
Since you blew my cover, I told my Gray friends that lube won't be needed during your scheduled probing!
I lived through the DOS, non PNP, pre-memmaker days, I'm not afraid of a little rough trade.
Ensign Nemo wrote on 2024-04-20, 00:52:Shagittarius wrote on 2024-04-19, 23:29:Ensign Nemo wrote on 2024-04-19, 20:19:I started in IT and switched to genomics after a few years. My job still involves a lot of computer work, but my work focuses on studying biological questions.
I'm also a member of a clandestine organization that fights crime and supervillains, but I can't say much about that for obvious reasons.
Don't believe him he works for the Gray aliens.
Since you blew my cover, I told my Gray friends that lube won't be needed during your scheduled probing!
I dare not speculate about the speculum.
On a more serious and relevant note to this topic, I once did seriously consider a degree in anthropology.
Shagittarius wrote on 2024-04-20, 00:57:Ensign Nemo wrote on 2024-04-20, 00:52:Shagittarius wrote on 2024-04-19, 23:29:Don't believe him he works for the Gray aliens.
Since you blew my cover, I told my Gray friends that lube won't be needed during your scheduled probing!
I lived through the DOS, non PNP, pre-memmaker days, I'm not afraid of a little rough trade.
Let's keep it civil, please. Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate.
On a more serious and on-topic note is anybody here experienced enough to have actually used punched cards in a professional context, whether while working in IT or otherwise ?
Locomotive Engineer.
I "drive" trains for a living basically. Always been a buff so it's a very enjoyable career for me.
See now that's a normal kind of job to have 'coz that's what my Father did 🤣 .... no seriously, he did, but switching engines/shunters on a large industrial complex, private lines, I think 25 miles was about the furthest he could go. Shoving around, ore, coal, slag etc. filling and tipping, marshalling outgoing stuff into trains for the mainline. So I thought he was the coolest Dad ever when I was 7. Unfortunately the place closed down when I wasn't much older, I think he would have got me in for a footplate ride if I'd been a bit older.
edit: Coincidentally, I later had a summer job in a place that occupied a chunk of the leveled site, and I drove a truck up and down the track bed where he would have driven his locomotive a few times.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.
I work in bulk heavy materials handling so essentially drive haul packs and loaders for a living, not little ones either. Not a bad job honestly and pays a lot more than any IT job where I currently live. Before this current job I worked in Non destructive testing at a lab, doing mostly gamma radiography and ultrasonic testing, honestly glad I gave that job up as the stress of it tends to cause burn out pretty quickly, also nice to be away from radioactive sources too.
Have I ever worked in IT . .yes as a repair guy and the one people yell and scream at when they forgot to plug their PC in causing ID10T/PEBKAC issues.
So fucking glad I dont have to deal with IT support shit anymore .. I now have very little tolerance for stupid because of that job.
I earned my money in a brickworks and as a warehouse worker. I taught myself about computers. By trial and error, which of course cost me a lot of money.
Im computer programmer, but I work as construction worker here in spain because is better paid
I just came to this website looking for drivers.
Got back into old computers looking to play old games. ( Dos/Win3x/95/98/XP )
So Like LGR I Started building my own Ultimate Retro computers but I don’t create video content. I just do it for old game play.
Philscomputerlab and LGR and Other YouTubers taught me allot about Audio and Configurations.
It’s just a Hobby I do with my free time.
But Now they have allot of Arcade consoles available for Cheap loaded with thousands of games so I see the Retro computer build
Community not being so popular in the future.
I work in marketing, never had a tech job. Also had a decidedly non-tech education (majored in history and literature, essentially)
