What is your profession?
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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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Researcher/academic. Been an interesting path from high school
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Data engineering. Quite a change from my undergrad path.
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What's your average working day like?
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Game developer (software engineer)
We get paid less than conventional software but it's very rewarding work on its own. -
I'm a Technical IT Consultant, consulting for a large cloud IT platform company.
On the client side, I take on new implementation projects, setups + configurations, maintenance, and help desk tasks that are beyond the help desk department.
Internally, I'm involved in our DevOps and custom app development teams.
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Long time IT/cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity is all about curiosity and learning.
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Jerk.
(me, not OP)
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Wow it's really cool someone from a military background went into the field of cybersecurity!
Is this common at all in cybersecurity?
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There's a lot of IT jobs in the military, and that includes cybersecurity.
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IT Project and Team lead.
Protecting "my" engineers from the customers.
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Central heating and ventilation technician, that was my first one, it was awesome, learned welding and stuu like that. But during the winter I couldn't do it, every time so freaking cold.
Then I was a Rubber mixer for the aufomobile industry, which destroyed my sense of smell to a high degree so I switched again.
Next was frontend developer, then iPhona app developer and then finally I also studied computer science.
After that I I went back to the automobile industry, but with the CS background I'm in software development now. My profession is very broad. I'm Integrator, Software Factory Subject Matter Expert (basically architecture around devops), Configuration Manager. Not programming at all anymore.
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I always enter “exotic dancer” when a form requires me to for some bullshit reason.
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Analytical chemist,
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Virtualization Engineer. Finally doing what I am passionate about. I was a stock broker 10 years ago. It was a crazy ride.
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Web developer & marketing specialist.
I fell into it in my early twenties, and figured it out along the way.
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I'm currently a Site/Processing manager that dabbles in data, got there through beekeeping. I got a summer job working for a beekeeper (over 30 years. ago now) while doing a BSc in organic chemistry and never went back to uni - I was planning to go into lab work/food science in the dairy industry.
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I'm in IT. Wish I could have gotten into programming, but I'm just not suited to it for whatever reasons. I love tinkering on Linux boxes and figuring out networking issues. Interested in infosec, but discouraged by how many of those jobs involve working for the war machine.
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counselor/mental health
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I work Logisitcs Management and manage 200+ drivers for last-mile deliveries for a large company. I don't like the company but I take pride in my work and the projects that I manage, but I'm using it as a stepping-stone for something better in the future
