What is your profession?
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Well stop spec’ing $30k lights when it come from the same factory as the $500 light.
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911 call taker
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Chronically unemployed
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Histotech also known as the deli person.
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Like swords and armour?
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I shoot birds at the airport.
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Gimme an M! Gimme an L! Gimme a T!
What's that spell?
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Everyone here is using Lemmy and is either in SWE, Sys Engi, Sys Admin or DevOps.
/s kinda
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Hearing specialist (evil)
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Software/solutions consultant, and union actor.
I mean I was. I mean I am. I dunno. 20 years in I.T. starting from programming to a 'senior tech consultant'. But was then made redundant. Didn't get a job straight away. Started working at my girlfriend's bar as a bartender & server.
That was over a year ago. 60+ applications for jobs in I.T.; zero interviews. WTF.
I'm trying to work out why & what to fix, but for now? I'm a server & actor.
I'm reading and tinkering with technologies but not nearly enough. And will have to explain the gap in employment.
It's getting harder to resist the urge to panic and break down.
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Yup
On WoW
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That's the thing though! I'm specifying well priced lighting that has good support from the supplier, warranties that last 10 years, good colour temperature and degradation rates etc. And the alternatives are nowhere near the same quality and have a dodgy warranty! I'll put the alternatives through it they're truly like for like, but it never is.
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Wait, what?!
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I studied German philology for far too long because of sunken cost phalacy, while I had a monotone student job localizing e-learning presentations until I got laid off. Then I took part in a programming bootcamp and have been a Frontend Web developer for the last 4 years.
Recently, I'm feeling a little unsatisfied because I'm very much a jack of all trades, master of none kinda person, and to get further in my field I would have to have a really deep understanding of how things works under the hood, and those abstract things are very hard for me to grasp. Even harder since I had covid two years ago with ensuing brain fog for more than half a year, which still makes it harder to learn new things and keep them in my memory, which is quite sad because I always learned pretty fast...
Now that I have been part of this hamster wheel of corporate bullshit for quite some time I feel that I want to do more creative stuff with programming, as I was always interested in music and art, and creating visual stuff brings me into the zone where the hours fly by, but adapting some configs or abstract data stuff does not.
If my job gets taken by AI I want to do something with my hands, like wood or metal working, or something where I can help people, but let's see
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When they get too long, the industry sells the hairs to Hollywood, for various props like long beards.
I don't get to meet anyone famous, though Sir Ian McKellen said thanks once or three times. -
PROFESSIONAL HOG CRANKER? WOW BROTHER, YOU'RE LIVING MY DREAM! AROOOOO
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I do IT category management, sourcing/procurement for F500 companies. Been doing it for like 15 years and I don't know what else I would be doing. I like the work. It's challenging, changes enough, and there is a mix of strategic and tactical work. Notably, I don't get burned out with it.
