What does /g/ do for a living and how did you get there? Did

I get paid to shill on /g/

IT/sysadmin
sent a resume
no
no
yes
nowhere

phd student. worked kind of hard but not that hard to be honest. i became pretty good in two fields that usually self-select against each other, making me one of like 5 people that could reasonably claim to be competent in both fields.

being good at cross-over is a lot easier (at least, for me) than finding a very specific niche within one field and becoming the best at that. everyone does one of the two (deep dive or cross-over). i could wax philosophical about how i think being a translator from one area of research to another is the more important skill, but the truth is i just feel that way because that's what i do. if i was a deep dive specialist i'd probably see breadth specialists as jacks of all trades (at best) or maybe even charlatans (at worst).

yeah, it's all a bunch of bullshit where i sell myself as being more talented than i actually am. i never prove my advanced knowledge or skill set. there are no qualifications that matter as much as gift of gab.

>>55895181
Wish I had as much talent/will as you

>>55895241
>i never prove my advanced knowledge or skill set
Why not?

Is that harambe

>>55895301
no

.Net/web developer

didnt even study IT in secondary school and didnt go to college or uni, just started in tech support and worked my way to development

>>55895263
it's honestly just about finding some insight that other people haven't made (or that isn't common knowledge). that takes some talent and will, but i don't think it takes as much as people think. it's more creativity than anything else.

Sysadmin (Solaris and six)
Dropped out of engineering degree
Electronics tech
PC tech
Software support

>>55895601
was it the same company?

>>55895958
>Electronics tech
>PC tech
what does that mean?

>>55896184
yeah same company, started in support as an "apprentice" (which actually means full time employee making a small fraction of minimum wage), then moved into managed services, then into development because i kept writing tools and stuff for people to use.

helped that i was clear from day 1 that i was there for a foot in the door and planned to be a developer. also helped that it was a small company and not a big corporation that doesnt give a fuck about their employees.

>>55894882
Sysadmin master race

Automation Monkey/Sysadmin

>Install Linux at home as a teenager, keep using it.
>Move to Chicago for college
>Start dating a recruiter
>"You know you can get hired for this right?"
>N-no
>Go on interviews
>Get hired
>Realize that the professional sysadmin knowledge base is way lower than I thought
>Switch to automation Monkey in finance

im a pornstar. i fuck girls like riley reid in the ass

>>55896446
ok