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by noahnoahnoah
2150 days ago
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I wasn't quite a software engineer, but a data analyst/scientist/engineer/term-du-jour at a brand-ish name software company for ~8 years, so pretty close in terms of the day-to-day work and culture. 1) I'm a professional cartographer, sort of. I make wooden topographic maps. 2) A bunch of reasons. I was never "supposed" to work in software -- I went to school in mechanical engineering, and wanted to get closer to something like that. My side biz was becoming viable, I wanted to do something entrepreneurial, and even though I had a pretty good gig, no company is perfect if you're there long enough. I don't know if I'll go back to data or software some day. Things were great in the map business before the pandemic, they're ok now, and hopefully they'll be great again in the future. I still do a lot of data analysis and write a lot of software for my business, it's just interspersed with a lot more sweeping, sanding, etc. |
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