I’ve been in school (part time) since 2019 working my way to this day. Now that it’s here, I’m both super excited and a little anxious. Now what do I do? 🤣

Anyway, thank you for reading and have a wonderful day!

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[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

First of all: Congrats! Were the exams hard?

Any specific plans ahead?

And now that you've spent that amount of time studying, how do you feel about those of us who somehow made it in the field without a degree? (I wish I had a degree, but I never found the the time)

If you could choose any (realistic) IT-related job, what would it be?

But most importantly: What is your favorite dinosaur?

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Hmm. Not once have I had to take an exam. I did a lot of projects; both group and individual. My last project was to read a research paper, and do a 25 minute presentation on what the paper was about. That kind of stuff.

I plan on spending time with my kids, working on my house, and enjoying not being in school for a while.

I’ve been in IT in various capacities for over 20 years now. I’ve been a web developer for the past 17 years. I actually work at the university, so I got to take the courses at no charge. So if you’re interested in getting one yourself, you should look into working for a university. It’s a seriously good gig.

Realistically, if I had to choose a different career path in IT, I’d choose mobile development. I’ve been doing the web for so long, I think I’ve finally run out of passion for it. That’s part of the reason for the degree; gives me a chance for upward mobility.

Triceratops. Those guys were badass with their horns.

So what is it you do in IT?

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Triceratops is a good choice. I've always thought of them as rhinos with even more of the cool bits.

Once upon a time I was planning on getting a degree, but i kept postponing it, and I now find myself in a position where I don't really have the time anymore. Sure, retroactively speaking it would've probably made it easier to get here to begin with, but now that I'm here I don't really need it. Besides, I fear that if I had gone the "normal" road, I would have ended up with a "normal" job, and I would've become disillusioned by the field as a whole.

And my abnormal career is being a field service tech for offshore petroleum surveys. While most of my job is done from home, I show up on the other side of the world now and then for maintenance and mobilization.

I mostly deal with HPC clusters and their networks. It pretty much boils down to large linux servers pooling their resources (mainly ridiculous amounts of storage) together via high speed network, as well as routing these servers together via VPN so a cluster on one ship can talk to a similar cluster on a different ship. The principles at play are fairly simple, they're just scaled up. A LOT.