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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I am a carpenter. Which is to say I’m a generalist. I am self-employed. Rural. Pickup truck etc.
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.
Are you in pathology?
What’s your job title?
Long time IT/cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity is all about curiosity and learning. I got there via the military.
E: too soon.
Any tips on how to break into the field as a SWE?
Learn everything you can, about everything you can,
and check out places you can practice your learning like Hack the Box or one of the other platforms.And go from there!
Wow it’s really cool someone from a military background went into the field of cybersecurity!
Is this common at all in cybersecurity?
It is now. When I got into it, I was doing communications, mainly radio and satellite. I had no idea what I was going to do, and as it turned out, computers and learning really struck a chord with me.
I used military grade cryptography in the Navy, but I learned a lot about cybersecurity on my own. All the “puzzles”, and learning new things everyday like new technology, new vulnerabilities, etc.
Now they have specialists in the military and other government agencies that teach it. Although, given the current political climate, I wouldn’t want to be part of that with that.
As much as people learn it in school and the military now, I feel to be really good at it, you have to know at least a little of everything. I like to look at it like a technical jack of all trades.
You’d be surprised how many people there are from all sorts of backgrounds and interests, that had no idea they would be making a living out of hacking.
There’s a lot of IT jobs in the military, and that includes cybersecurity.
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
Ayo! Fellow environmental scientist ;D
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“You see old friend. I brought more soldiers than you did” Lol my first thought as well
PROFESSIONAL HOG CRANKER? WOW BROTHER, YOU’RE LIVING MY DREAM! AROOOOO
Werewolf? London by any chance?
Had to scroll way too far for this.
You work as a fog horn?
I always enter “exotic dancer” when a form requires me to for some bullshit reason.
I’m an office manager at a methadone clinic. I’m working toward becoming a Drug and Alcohol Counselor. It’s a wonderfully rewarding job and I can’t wait to continue in the field.
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.
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.
I’m a blacksmith
Like swords and armour?
Yup
On WoW
Yup
On WoW
counselor/mental health
I straighten below hairs for Japanese adult entertainment employees. Usually a Philips does the job, however for some folks I’ve had to whip out the ironing board. It’s a tough job.
Wait, what?!
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.
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.
911 call taker
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.
