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My profession is in programming. Initially, my dad tried to teach me Javascript. It was a struggle and couldn't get it.

A few years later, I took up computer science in college and that's where it all clicked: I can imagine the end result. It's a matter of being curious and finding (or I daresay... hacking) my way to that conclusion. Programming languages have a very funny way of allowing you to do just that. In studying computer science, I discovered the art of engineering all kinds of software-based solutions.

Because my way of solving problems is more deductive than inductive, I have to consciously build foundational knowledge and routines. Constant learning and insatiable curiosity is required for me to identify when my hunches are wrong and discard them accordingly.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm a datacenter administrator and professional photographer as side hustle. I love my work so much that it barely even feels like work

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I get to cut up human organs for a living. Whenever something is removed during surgery, it comes to me. It can be mundane but there are fun and interesting things too. The job is very hands on.

No, I'm not a surgeon. You wouldn't want me to attempt to perform surgery on you. I'm not a physician of any kind.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Environmental Scientist. As my username suggests, my passion is studying bivalves. My day job involves studying nutrient cycling in San Francisco Bay (where clams come up quite a bit)! Through my work, I have also grown fascinated by phytoplankton

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Freelance fehdreyer

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I work in travel insurance claims. I'm in a third party administrator for underwriters. When you're on a trip and you get hurt or get sick, you give us a call and we get a claim started for you.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

College teacher/academia in music and techology.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Back-office college financial aid at a larger state college. Financial aid mostly disburses by batch process, so my job is to audit that. Some things, like external scholarships, are manual and require a quick reassessment of the financial aid package to ensure the student is still eligible for everything (if anything, loans need reduced sometimes per regulations). Some things require "professional judgement," like when a student is not yet 24 but claims to be independent due to unusual circumstances. There's more, but it's really just an accumulation of batch work, queues, and audits which require a reasonably good working knowledge of regulations.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Professional retiree for like 3 decades now ๐Ÿ˜ But I also worked a bit here and there and it was as IT-admin or freelancer or both.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am a jack of all trades, master of none. I'm a nobody, who likes to have fun. I'm easily distracted and lose focus a ton.

I am an amateur scientist, a cook, an author of unwritten books, I can't solve your problems but I'll still take a look.

I've been a toy soldier, a quick thinker, a recycling inventer and a useless tinker, who was once known as a legendary drinker.

I'm naturally shy but occasionally I'm bolder and i see beauty beyond the eye of the beholder as a student or mentor to both younger and older.

A person "who" cares, doesn't matter about "what", "when" I'm needed, "where" ever that may be, and sometimes "why". z.

I've walked a mile in your shoes and I ran so far away just to be the man who walked a 1000 miles to fall down at your door.

I never give up, never surrender, never gonna let you down, never gonna turn around, bright eyes, every now and then i fall apart.

A party of one, a party of five, a party of me, oh, ah, ah, ah, ah, staying alive, staying alive. As long as I know how to love I know I'll be alive, I will survive.

I want it all or maybe just a little bit off more than I can chew on that it's a piece of cake and eat it too rich for my blood is thicker than water you talking about?

Chances are, the odds are even, shirts versus skins. don't stop believin' that as far as I'm concerned, everybody wins or was kung fu fighting, thunderbolts and lightning, please.

Online I go by Lattrommi, the first and foremost, last but not least, mostly a man, still part beast, from the state of ohio in the united states of north america on this planet earth within the sol system somewhere along an arm of the milky way galaxy.

If you read all this, I hope you have a nice day.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Electronics Technician and self taught programmer. My career has been building equipment to test locomotive traction motors and alternators. Lots SQL and PLC programming, electrical drawings, web programming for reports.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm a Microsoft 365 admin. It's the easiest job I've ever had and it pays 6 figures. I don't even have a bachelor's, but no techie person likes Microsoft 365 so they avoid it like the plague, which I saw as an opportunity.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Software developer, trained in this from the start. As the years have passed, I've realized just how little coding is happening and how much of the job is waiting, speaking with people, and struggling against the everpresent bureaucracy and processes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Have a bachelor's in Radio/Television/Film. Worked as a Reports Analyst for over a decade writing SQL code to pull data from databases to create reports in spreadsheets. Now for the last sixteen years I've been a hairdresser.

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well sir, I step in front of cars and sue the drivers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Doing my BSC in Informatics atm but I am already working as a student intern network engineer for the state railway working on the internal train network and the train-to-land connection but also on stuff like the announcements and dashboards. Wherever I am needed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Storyboard/3D generalist. I work at a small animation studio from home. The good thing about this is that I basically work whatever hours I want as long as I get my work done. That means 11 or 12 start times and I also get a chance to work on my personal projects when it's a slow time. The pay could be better but that's my only complaint.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sweet man! Is there anywhere I can check out your animations?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Musician. Graduated college expecting to go into STEM but the work made me miserable. A little less financially stable now but I would trade that for my mental well-being 10 times out of 10.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

What kind of jobs do you do as a musician?

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Marine fabricator, which sounds better than upholsterer. I specialize in canvas, making enclosures for boats.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Engineering Business Analyst. I need to learn SQL though

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What does a business engineering analyst do?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I am part of a new team created to bring order to the chaos that resulted from a disorganized wellbeing company merging with an even worse health plan administration company. I am in a constant battle to help people understand the byzantine complexities of the systems powering our stuff, and encourage and facilitate open communications between teams and departments that until now have each had their heads buried in the sand, with zero interest in understanding how their work contributed to the whole. Also I come up with better ways to do all these things. I think businesses Analyst position responsibilities probably vary widely by team and company though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't this what management ought to do?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Was a cop, now I'm in EMS. Much better mentality, even with a shittier job environment.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

professional neet

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Machinist. Over 20 years now.

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