What is your irl job?

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“Director” of software development for a small transportation company in a rural area. When it’s just you and a jr developer though, there’s not a whole heck of lot of directing going on. The work itself is very much comparatively easier versus my last job, but because we are always 24/7, I’m perpetually on call, which is…uggh for my anxiety even if I almost never get any calls outside of “office” hours…

I also do some contract work for the county economic development office and that varies and averages out to just a few hours a month.

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Mobile software dev (iOS/Android). Am capable of writing software for other platforms (and do in my spare time) but the markets for those are either too small or don’t pay as well.

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I dabbled in mobile dev for a bit. Wrote a pig latin translation app in Swift on my iPhone lol.

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You might wanna go help this county over in Maryland. Got hit by ransomware about 3 weeks ago and got obliterated down to the ground.

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Not a client of ours, sadly.

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An administrator/account manager for retirement plans.

Yes, it’s as exciting as it sounds.

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Commercial Driver

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Good news! They are currently in the market for new endpoint protection because their now former provider didn’t do jack to stop it!

The only reason they knew about it at all is because they saw it in the newspaper :joy: Pitiful way to lose a client.

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Yeah that’s about the sum of it.

It’s the kind of stuff that no-one in these forums would struggle with like setting the home page back to the internal home page, showing them things like being able to have two applications of Internet Explorer open at once (we have several programs that ONLY work on IE…still) and of course, physically beating the printer into submission (printers can sense fear, all the nurses are scared of it so I have to put it in it’s place when it jams).

I’m basically the “do we have to escalate this to the actual IT guys” guy by being virtue of being the youngest in the office at any given time by about 15-20 years.

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:eyes:

I feel bad for whatever devs have to maintain those programs.

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I swear that miserable piece of software will still be kicking in some office somewhere when my great grandkids have kids.

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Uh, actually, at my job one or two of the adjacent departments has those too. Kinda problematic when those companies/developers are no longer in business…

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Retired. :laughing:

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sobs in pre-ES6 JavaScript

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data analyst

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I dont have a job but i am a geology major freshman

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Lord of War

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Book factory making books. I work the hardcover books.

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I worked on a couple of sites during the reign of IE 6/7… it couldn’t even render transparent PNG images properly without some incantation to summon a DirectX filter or some crap like that so most of the time you’d fake transparency by making an opaque image with the same background color as the page. Such a pain in the rear.

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I’m basically the same in my office, except that I’m a middle-aged woman. A lot of the people that I work with are 20 years older, and the younger folks are more familiar with mobile phones and tech that’s actually up to date instead of our janky custom programs running in IE and Unix databases.

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