What's Your Job IRL?

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  1. Tchoupitoulas

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    Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces
    There'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier
    There'll be no refreshment for a thirsty jackaroo
    From Melbourne to Adelaide on the overlander
    With newfangled buffet cars and faster locomotives
    The train stopped in Serviceton less and less often

    No, there's nothing sadder than a town with no cheer
    Vic Rail decided the canteen was no longer necessary there
    No spirits, no bilgewater and eighty dry locals
    And the high noon sun beats a hundred and four
    There's a hummingbird trapped in a closed-down shoe store

    This tiny Victorian rhubarb
    Kept the watering hole open for sixty-five years
    Now it's boilin' in a miserable March twenty-first
    Wrapped the hills in the blanket of Patterson's curse
    The train smokes down the xylophone, there'll be no stopping here
    All you can be is thirsty in a town with no cheer

    No Bourbon, no Branchwater, though the townspeople here
    Fought her Vic Rail decree tooth and nail
    Now it's boilin' in a miserable March twenty-first
    Wrapped the hills in a blanket of Patterson's curse
    The train smokes down the xylophone, there'll be no stopping here
    All ya can be is thirsty in a town with no cheer
     
  2. YEEEEGZ

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    You know the bit in No Good Trying when Syd goes on about the red and yellow mane on the stallion horse? The first time I heard that I passed out in my kitchen while making a pizza. I had never had a reaction like that to a piece of music and nor have I had that happen since. Those solo records are still some of the greatest music recorded in my opinion. I love them a lot.

    It Is not so Obvious may I say if you're unfamiliar with them, but that's a screen printing press. A rather fancy one at that, I suppose. But I was late to work and it was the fastest thing I could link on the image search. I spent a decade of my life as a print maker, and while I can do most things from limestone lithography to etching and simple relief printing, the easiest and most commercial of them is screen printing. I did a lot of it. The older machines are really loud, violent and tend to break especially with age as you run them through their hard motions all day every day.

    Edit- This just posted after I rolled my wrist across the keyboard so I'm gonna just go with that and sleep because I have to get up early for work. Thanks for putting up with me, I enjoy reading this thread a lot. It's pretty lonely out here.
     
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  3. Thad E Ginathom

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    Just when you think you know it all...
    Thanks. One of the many print processes that I have not actually met face to face.
    YEEEEGZ edited it? Damn. There are some typos that are just too perfect to correct.

    Just me and my predilections, but... it will always be breasts to me.
    I'm beginning to think that the profile posts might be a better place for all this.

    But hey, while we're here, here is this dark place, I'm recalling what I think was my worst ever job. I was sent there by an agency, by-the-hour labouring work of various kinds. It was a fur auction house. As in animal skins. There was row upon row of numbered batches of skins. Buyers would give a number, and we had to give them the skin batch for examination. All the lighting was strong, eye-level fluorescent. The smell of the skins and the lights caused my head to throb, and I was done with that job in about two hours.
    I don't know it... but if I encounter it, I will try not to be a) in a kitchen and/or b) near a pizza while listening. It sounds like a perfect-storm combination!
     
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    Damn. My mistake. I thought you were a Syd Barrett fan from your signature. In that case I just gave up an oddly random bit of information.

    It was always wild boobs blowing about in the hot summer wind. Beasts is good too though.

    A lot of beastly activity as of late. Today I watched from the lobby as two middle aged women got into a physical altercation because the one wouldn't give the other a ride. They clawed at each other's hair for a while before one escaped in a pickup truck with the latter attempting to climb into the truck's bed as it drove away. The lady ended up tumbling over the edge from the truck's acceleration. She picked herself up and seemed ok physically but did one of those head tilted back at the sky screaming to a non-existent deity things people do when they're really upset. No one came on the only toilet seat today though so that's pretty righteous.
     
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    @YEEEEGZ , it seems that many folks are simultaneously being weighed down and flying apart. I know I'm not the only one whose tired.
     
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    Yeah, man. It’s getting worse. You can feel it bubbling in the air. It’s like a psychic pressure tide on the rise. I’m not looking forward to the high water mark.

    If it weren’t bad enough among the people, my right hand’s parents passed away last week. As they were putting them in the ground on Monday her husband’s parents also passed. I’m on 14 days without a break trying to keep this pony show in one piece. I’ve lost half my office staff. We are at the doorstep of madcap laughter in the face of overwhelming tragedy.

    I lost my mom four years ago and descended into the sunken place. It took two years before I surfaced again even resembling a human being. I’m really hoping she is stronger than I was. What a f'ing mess.
     
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    It's like we're trapped between Big Star and the Dead Kennedys. We should splinter this off into another thread or profile post.
     
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    You are, of course, right about the attribution, but it has been a long time. Was it from that album, The Madcap laughs? I have the CD on the shelf.
     
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    Yeah, whenever possible live not as a victim of life but the one who creates he's own life. This is how I see it. Taking note of others on the WWW is quite useless (besides some learning for personal dev and how world works etc) because your own personal experiences are quite unique so you just need to make life better for your side of things. Only you can see into yourself completely, well this takes years of practice and a lot of experience I guess.


    P.S when I wrote this post the thread did not update for whatever reason so I am reading the new stuff now.
     
  11. zerodeefex

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    HOT DAMN, you worked on Amalur? I thought that was an incredible game.

    I just bought re-reckoning. I am excited to jump back in.
     
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    • Community college dropout
    • Computer tech (repair/upgrades) in a retail store and then in my own business
    • Software engineer (web applications)
    • Devops engineer (Cloud sysadmin more or less)
    I had the computer repair business in LA in the 90’s and learned to hate traffic even more than I already did (I went onsite). One of the factors that pushed me to move to the SF Bay Area.

    Really enjoyed making web applications but too many companies are using JavaScript everywhere (which I find awful) so I switched to devops where I can get away with being super grumpy. :headbang:

    I find devops fun but our work is generally invisible to non engineers, people only notice when something breaks.

    I also started my own game company which has been losing money for over 12 years. :eek: I love it and it scratches the “make software” itch.
     
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    HA!! Don't you find the older you get (in whatever career), the harder it is to hide that grumpy, frequently pissed off inner self?

    I've worked in a home office for 20+ years, and it came just in time...here I can curse out people & things at will, with no one the wiser.

    Re games, ~23 yrs ago I did all the creatives (develop characters, write dialogue) for an early AI-based game. In that game, AI was used in ways uncommon (maybe unprecedented) for that time--all interactions between characters, and utterances by & between them, were mediated by AI connected to the characters' personal style, motivation, and tastes. There was no "plot," no "story line," just a succession of random scenes with these characters interacting in unpredictable ways (doing stuff we created them to naturally do., like insulting each other, bloviating about movies & music, etc). I can't tell you how bizarre it was to write dialogue for that...
     
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    Hahahaha, sorry, I couldn't help it.

    Yeah, JavaScript is not great. I feel like a lot of JavaScript devs are not taking the language seriously, so their projects suck (in terms of performance at least) and that in turn makes the language itself suck. I don't want to proclaim myself as the greatest JavaScript dev ever but... in general, people should get over the mindset that just getting something to work is good enough. Optimizations are important, too. But anyways, that's an entirely different discussion.

    On a side note, I interact with our devops on almost a daily basis. We have a new "tiered" build process that requires different build configs and scripts for each new project, so our devops get much more hands-on than they seem. We may be able to figure out some centralized config/script system that can take care of all that, but... that's for the future. For now, they still have to help us prepare new scripts for every new feature.
     
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    Haha, yeah, the "f**k it" fairy shows up and keeps getting stronger as I age, not limited to my work life. :D

    HAHAHA that is perfect!

    Wow, that sounds like work Chris Crawford was (still is?) doing.
     
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    Totally agree. It is possible to make good, maintainable JavaScript code but that is so rarely done. Also the infinite syntax variations make google searches for a problem more confusing because the results you get never use the syntax you are using. :p I could rant for a while about JavaScript.

    Yeah, if we are needed regularly to do something then we consider it our job to automate that work somehow.

    Small side note, we once met at a Head-Fi meetup in San Jose. I tried your super modded HD 800 and liked them but I think I was too early in my journey to appreciate them. I hope to correct that someday. :)
     
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    I've always f'ing hated JavaScript. I just wanted to say that out loud. Love a lot of programming and coding, but get me to do JS 5 days a week and I'll be wanting to kill myself.
     
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    Stop being subtle and tell us how you really feel....

    (very funny!)
     
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    I love all of the Javascript hate here (and totally agree). I've found that I really like Clojurescript: it has sane libraries, and developing React apps with it and a project called re-frame (github.com/day8/re-frame) is an awesome, joyful experience.

    The company I work at uses Clojure on the server side, so it's a natural fit. (Each dev team is also responsible for their own devops). You can actually target any platform at all just with Clojurescript: mobile (both Android and iPhone), desktop (all variants), even bare metal in some cases. It compiles to JS typically, but with either ReactNative or GraalVM or a shell called Planck you can run it as a native executable or a script.

    Another compiles-to-JS enjoyable language is Elm. At least it's enjoyable if you like strong, static type systems. But it can guarantee no possibility of runtime exception when you stay inside its ecosystem.
     
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    I'm actually doing JavaScript 5 days a week. I've worked in a lot of different languages — Java, C/C++, C#, Kotlin, Lisp, Pascal, even low level machine language. Now working in React Native, which uses JavaScript (my first actual experience developing in JS). I'm pretty agnostic about languages and don't love or hate JavaScript. One time I was trying solve a problem and discussed it with a colleague. He suggested using a "monkey patch", which I hadn't heard of. Then he demonstrated it to me, and I watched with a mixture of horror and fascination. Also called "duck punching".
    ducks-1-duck-punching.png
     

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