is your job or planned job have anything to do with tech?

[adarw]

comment down below if you want to share what you do or want to do!

 

(im asking this to see options for what i can do in the future)

[Squeebus]

Tech per se - no. But I do work off a computer. I work for central operations for Amazon - so I spend all my time on a computer using various programs and whatnot, but I dont need to know tech specs for anything, or programming. but there is a lot of demand for program managers and people with experience in programming. I make great money, and I have 4 days a week off so I cant complain at all. Plus all the free things I get for affiliates of amazon like I got some steel toe carbon fiber work boots from Zappos that were like $214 - but with my amazon voucher, and my zappos VIP thing, I only paid $2.38 for em. Benefits are also WAY good. I got the aetna mid-grade plan and it covers a TON of stuff and its a little under 200/mo. My vision and dental for my whole family of 5 is less than $20/mo - but we have VSP Plus which covers a TON - 2 pairs of glasses or 1yr of contacts and its only $10 including eye exam, etc. I have better benefits than hospital employees have lol 
 

Whatever field you go into - make sure the pay is good, but the benefits better. If I had to pay all my medical stuff out of pocket I would be SCREWED. Contacts for my other half without my insurance is like $280 for 6 months worth. My glasses were $268 and I paid $10 for em,  and my prescription raybans were also $10 lol so I cant complain. 

[LloydLynx]

I was planning on maybe getting a job at a local bike shop after this coming winter. HVAC might be long term, since I've done HVAC work with my dad and it's a lot of fun.

[atxcyclist]

Architectural building modelling and CAD work, so I use computers all day. I'm also the office computer tech and IT guy.

[8tg]

Depends what you consider a tech job. I’m an operations supervisor for DHL, I tell forklift operators what to do and keep in contact with suppliers, plants and carriers.

But I also maintain and repair a lot of redprarie/blueyonder dock and equipment management software.

[Rauten]

You know @leadeater's avatar?

That's basically me, but less handsome and almost completely bald.

[AlanyG21]

I'm thinking about studying programming or cuisine

Basically I'm between a programmer and/or chef

[igormp]

12 hours ago, comander said:

I move a bunch of data from one set of computers to another. Sometimes I change it's form. Other times I analyze it or aggregate it. 

Pretty similar to what I do, basically doing excel spreadsheets at scale in a distributed manner (data engineer btw)

[Biohazard777]

On 9/26/2021 at 1:27 AM, adarw said:

comment down below if you want to share what you do

I'm a teapot

[wasab]

My job is telling the computers what to do and sometimes they listen. 

[Raytsou]

17 hours ago, wasab said:

My job is telling the computers what to do and sometimes they listen. 

My computer always listens but I tend to tell it to do the wrong thing

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

20 hours ago, wasab said:

My job is telling the computers what to do and sometimes they listen. 

My job is telling the computers and boomers what to do and sometimes they listen. 

[wasab]

36 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

My job is telling the computers and boomers what to do and sometimes they listen. 

Boomers never listen 

[Laborant]

My job is prototyping of embedded systems. From schematics (layouting is outsourced), bring-up of embedded linux (mostly yocto), programming of linux drivers and prototype-esque user-space programs for feasability studies. That contains sometimes 3D with C++/Vulkan and sometimes some machine learning with Python/Tensorflow or some simple webserver-stuff for data visualization.

 

Prototyping is fun - follow the 20/80-Principle. No need in high reliability, no need in extreme optimization (unless the project says so), always different and exciting new stuff. With each project you learn a ton of new tools and frameworks.

Pro: You become a jack of all trades.
Con: I do not master anything and write ugly code (some C-Style C++ for example)

[Anghammarad]

started out as company it departement tech support and sys admin, went sys admin, sys architekt, currently head of IT at a small business. Thinking about quitting and going to a lower rank job for better benefits and less stress.

 

What did the job include until now... building computers, setting up computers, servers, windows and linux, network lan/wan/firewalling, planning IT infrastructures, building them, maintaining them, writing documentations, modernizing whole standing IT infrastructures migrating from old to new (if possible without any downtime), developing IT standards for companies, and much much more... 

 

Cheers

Ang

 

 

[notR1ke]

Yes. Since I was about 7 years old that I want to became an Software Engineer or study CC. Now I’m 14 and I’m studying Python by reading a book, and cybersecurity just for fun bcs hacking is kinda neat and learning never occupy space in your head.

[abit-sean]

System administrator for a large training establishment. Managing about 1000 devices with servers split between 3 building to ensure high availability. Been doing this now for 11 years, previously was a support tech for abit motherboards which is completely different but I love to adapt and learn new skills. 

[Anghammarad]

3 hours ago, abit-sean said:

System administrator for a large training establishment. Managing about 1000 devices with servers split between 3 building to ensure high availability. Been doing this now for 11 years, previously was a support tech for abit motherboards which is completely different but I love to adapt and learn new skills. 

Thank you for the FP IN9 - SLI Bios updates on the Hexus forums in the old days ^^

Still got one of those here

[abit-sean]

4 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

Thank you for the FP IN9 - SLI Bios updates on the Hexus forums in the old days ^^

Still got one of those here

Providing support on the forums was easily the best part of my old job. I was always getting in trouble from the wife for still being online in the evening or during my holidays, I even carried on for a while after I left when abit closed down.

[vetali]

"Tech" is broad, but I would say so. I am an automotive technician for Honda. All Honda's service info is browser based. Their diagnostic tool is software on your laptop. If you aren't good with computers and electronics you will struggle in this trade now days.