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Post by Desparil on Jan 30, 2022 11:51:25 GMT -6
Not a computer professional. Not even really a computer amateur. Hard to imagine going back to the world before modern wordprocessing. But that's about the extent of my knowledge. Indeed. Especially when many of our posts carry the tag "posted on mobile" every day on here. Did any of you guys imagine we'd be carrying around little Star Trek pocket computers every day of our adult lives at some point when you were growing up? I hoped and dreamed we would but actually seeing it manifest is wild. I dunno, I didn't feel like it was really such a leap from Game Boys and graphing calculators. |
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Post by captainjapan on Jan 30, 2022 12:35:47 GMT -6
The wonder is not the having of a computer in your pocket, it's more having the whole internet in your pocket (potentially). On star trek, the devices weren't "connected" like we think of mobile devices today. I'd say we have it better than trek, depending on how fast your connection is of course.
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Post by scottenkainen on Jan 30, 2022 13:43:37 GMT -6
I would consider myself a computer professional, but only because I'm a librarian and so much of what we do is on the computer these days.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2022 14:13:02 GMT -6
I would consider myself a computer professional, but only because I'm a librarian and so much of what we do is on the computer these days. Sorry...but I ask this whenever I meet a librarian. Ahem... "Who's Dewey?"I'll show myself out now. |
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Post by dizzysaxophone on Jan 31, 2022 0:39:20 GMT -6
No. I'm a pastor, but when I did my undergrad in saxophone performance I considered double majoring in computer science after learning java and c++ in high school. Before becoming a pastor I was co-owned an oil service company, was a data analyst for an oil service company, music teacher/professional musician (though I'd still say I am this), worked in pest control, delivered for amazon, and many other odds and ends. None have been a computer professional.
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Post by rredmond on Jan 31, 2022 8:29:36 GMT -6
... I took a ten year detour into working with people who suffered from both developmental and psychological disorders... Hello fellow social worker!  |
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Post by Parzival on Feb 1, 2022 8:52:13 GMT -6
Writer, former librarian. I dabble with computer programming in BASIC, but only as a hobby, and only for throwback machines (C64, currently). As a librarian I did in fact have D&D as part of my day job, as I led an Introduction to Dungeons & Dragons program for teens every summer for 5 years at the library. So I got paid to play D&D!  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2022 12:52:52 GMT -6
Absolute mess with computers.
Make my living as strategist for a large public relations firm.
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Post by samvandenberg on Apr 1, 2022 6:23:26 GMT -6
Analytical chemist
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Post by tombowings on Apr 1, 2022 6:44:19 GMT -6
So you're a mad scientist? |
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Post by cadriel on Apr 4, 2022 8:12:41 GMT -6
I'm curious - what kind of work do you do? My mom was a bench chemist for a number of years, mostly on GCMS and LCMS systems. She worked at environmental labs and later the Food & Drug Administration. |
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Post by DungeonDevil on Apr 4, 2022 10:49:27 GMT -6
Linguist (forced into retirement due to the Persian Gulf War); currently an author. The extent of my computer-programming background was learning BASIC in order to write code for Moon Lander in the early 80s, and in the early 'Naughts, learning a modicum of HTML, Java and Javascript. That's about it. Not a "mathy" person, but I am fascinated by the history of reckoning/mathematics/geometry and primitive counting systems (e.g. Chinese counting sticks, Rechenbrett, suanpan, soroban).
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Post by naiyor on Apr 16, 2022 23:39:39 GMT -6
I love computers, but never worked in IT. I am an HR Advisor in a political organization and I run a consulting business on the side.
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Post by Paladin on Apr 18, 2022 11:45:54 GMT -6
Not now. I was a programmer in the early 2000's. Learned in my spare time as a teen, then went to school for it, got a job, and realized I loved it as a hobby and hated it as a job.
Haven't touched it since. I operate a sawmill now and love it.
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Post by DungeonDevil on Apr 20, 2022 9:29:22 GMT -6
Not now. I was a programmer in the early 2000's. Learned in my spare time as a teen, then went to school for it, got a job, and realized I loved it as a hobby and hated it as a job. Haven't touched it since. I operate a sawmill now and love it. There's something to be said for the smell of freshly-cut lumber.  My family had a sawmill on the estate, powered by cannibalised parts from an old Model T Ford! Ah, Depression-era ingenuity!  |
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Post by skars on May 7, 2022 17:56:56 GMT -6
I have been in the tech industry now 24 years and have had the opportunity to work for some great places. It's fun to hear the variety of things folks do in this thread.
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Post by tkdco2 on May 7, 2022 18:45:54 GMT -6
I never worked in the tech industry. I was a teacher for over a quarter century.
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Post by hamurai on May 24, 2022 22:26:37 GMT -6
I'm a school teacher.
I assist our system administrator at school, taking care of the windows computers. I've also been trained in Linux, especially setting up and trouble-shooting servers and school networks. My programming knowledge is quite limited; the only official training I had was 30ish years ago in school when we learned some Basic.
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My family had a sawmill on the estate, powered by cannibalised parts from an old Model T Ford! Ah, Depression-era ingenuity! 
