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Software engineering.
Most people don't have a clue what we do. Especially management. Most people think we're code factory workers, just writing code all day. In reality, it is closer to being an artist than it is a factory worker. There's a ton of thinking, discussion, design, and unfortunately politicking.
Hey collegue!
Fully agree with you. People think anything can be done with Software. But often not really and we just create a work around. Its always funny to see people think developing is easy and then get shattered by reality. Sometimes you just sit there, screaming for why it doesnt work!...then you see you set the wrong variable.
Sometimes you are an artist, sometimes a high mathematician, sometimes a wizard and sometimes you want to get an axe and hack your computer
Did I know how printers work and can fix their printer.
Look, I have a computer science degree (utterly pointless qualification folks don't get one) and I work in cyber security. I haven't got a clue how those fuckers work, I don't know get a brother or something they seem to be fine.
That because I'm punk and a mosher I must be aggressive and do lots of drugs. i'm only aggressive to shit people who deserve it lol
Mosh pits are surprisingly wholesome if you're not familiar with them. To an outside observer it just looks like a bunch of aggro idiots beating each other up. To the people in the pit it's an amazing shared experience of like-minded people, there to enjoy the same thing, having a great time and helping each other up when they fall. The right pit is a sea of positivity, community and endorphins.
I like peaceful hippie jam band noodly noodling nowadays. However, I was born in a mosh pit. There is a time and a place and appropriate selections when it comes to more ”Cerebral Matters” , shall we say. It’s all about keeping the positive vibe a go go! Keep it surreal, friendly and safe. Btw, ya’ll new kittens. Doooo Not! Forget ya’lls safe word(s).
People are always amazed at how physically active embroidery is at an industrial scale. Everybody thinks it's just sitting around with an oldschool hoop, but I'm up and down the length of an 8ft machine all day, embroidering the same design on 6 garments at once.
I think the most I ever did was 300 garments in an 8 hour workday, but I put 17k steps on my fitbit and was dead tired afterwards.
Edit:oh heck it was more steps than that
That I spend all day coding, I spend most my day reading. Code usually but still
That's so fucking true. If I'm honest its usually trying to figure out how the fuck something actually is supposed to work. Its either by searching stuff online or changing single lines of code until it finally works.
User end hands on IT for the elderly.
that it's hard. "Oh I could never do your job"
It's literally a customer service job with tech paint. Reboot the device. Don't yell at the decrepit person doing their best in a digital world. Collect check and praise.
The amount of times I've been called a genius for relogging into someone's email is greater than 7.
Yeah. Real hard.
Don't yell at the decrepit person doing their best in a digital world.
I think this is the part some people might struggle with
Every time it gets difficult I imagine cleaning week old fry grease out of the fryer with a coat hanger because it was so clogged. I was making less then.
I love context. It helps so much.
Honestly it's only bad when they come at it like they know more than you do. 1 out of 100 in my very lucky experience.
People praise me up for "saving the bees". Honey bees don't need saving. It's the other bees that do, the hundreds of species of bumblebees, mining bees, solitary bees etc etc. Bees that are outcompeted in some areas due to the number of hobbyist beekeepers and commercial bee farms. I'm one of the baddies.
People assume programmers know all about hacking. Because we "know about computers."
Used to be that because I was an expert on Apple platforms, that must mean I can fix a Windows computer. I hadn't the first clue where anything was. I've since learned, however. Because of work. Oh well.
Skydiving
Skydivers are not adrenaline (epinephrine) junkies. Adrenaline actually makes you feel terrible. You know that rush and shakes you get when you get hungry? Yeah, THAT'S an adrenaline rush.
No, we go for the same thing runners do. Endorphins. Nature's own anti-depressant.
I assumed you guys did it for the view. I'd do it but I'm afraid of heights.
This is very enlightening. Great way of framing the difference between the two.
It's frugal.
... It's not. Yarn is expensive as hell, even more so if you want any type of durability or wearability or comfort.
I work in IT (Sysadmin). "Oh, you fix computers? Can you look at my laptop?"
"Accountants spend most of their time preparing tax"
No, hardly any time is spent on tax. Management accountants and auditors don't do tax work at all.
I'm working with computers => I can fix their windows problems.
Nope. If I work on windows, and it eats itself for no reason, I call IT. I don't waste my time on that crap software.
Therapists are not "always analysing" you.
Seriously, you gotta pay me before I'll spend the energy to do that
My ex girlfriend is a therapist, and she was CONSTANTLY "analyzing" me, even when I begged her to turn that shit off and just be my girlfriend.
Software dev and game dev: Being lazy, it not being a real job, not much effort, it being easy, everyone is a super genius, AI will replace us
I’m in engineering. If I tell someone I work for the phone company they think I work on phones. Not sure what my mom thinks I do.
That I can make the band suck less. Sure, there’s something to be said about polishing a shit... But ultimately, it’s shit in>shit out. Your guitar doesn’t sound like ass because of the EQ; it sounds like ass because the guitarist had nine beers before he even walked on stage, and he can’t stay on beat to save his goddamned life.
Psychoacoustics is a fascinating subject. Just like placebo, people will fool themselves into thinking that something sounds good or bad, simply because they want it to. I always keep a DFA fader on my console, for when random people walk up and have suggestions. I make an adjustment to the DFA fader, they smile and nod to themselves, and then walk away. DFA means “Does Fuck All”. It’s literally a fader that isn’t doing anything at all. It’s not in the mix, it’s not in the monitors. It’s just a spare fader. But by adjusting the DFA, audience members will feel like I took them seriously, and they’ll placebo themselves into thinking that I took their advice.
To be clear, not all audience advice is bad advice. But for every “it’s too loud” complaint, you’ll inevitably get an equal and opposite “it’s too quiet”. There’s a reason music festivals have their audio console fenced off with a very wide perimeter. It’s specifically so drunken audience members can’t just saunter up and start yelling suggestions. That shit is distracting and 99% of the time is entirely unproductive.
