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Discussion on: What jobs did you have *before* software development?

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In order:

  • family dry cleaners (off the books, one summer)
  • physics undergrad intern (literally the happiest work I've done, paid almost nothing)
  • retail (quit)
  • retail (quit to avoid being fired)
  • clerk/office cashier (quit because I was almost fired for doing DB stuff in MS Office to keep up with my workload)
  • help desk (was encouraged to apply for…)
  • central IT desktop support (got bored at putting out email fires)
  • double part-time departmental tech support (got tired of having two bosses that threatened to not be able to afford me, despite all the work they had for me)
  • central IT tech support to one department (for financial security)

and then the big move across the state:

  • junior developer with sister campus (only experience was bash scripting for central IT desktop support)