What is your organizational role?
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What is your organizational role?
"Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will." -- Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"
Poll rev 2.0 - much better (Score:2)
Although as a web developer and sysadmin who works for a unversity, I'm still not sure which button to click... :-P
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Re: shitty poll (Score:2)
Iâ(TM)m a consulting engineer and very much not retired. Itâ(TM)s a dopey poll that tells more about the authors limited world view than it does about the professions.
Interesting choices (Score:3)
I've been an IT consultant for a very long time (decades), but I'm nowhere near retirement. (And given the current economic situation, that future date looks to be moving quite a bit further into the future...)
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That was my reaction, but my theory underlying this poll (now a series?) can still apply in terms of using the results to pitch advertising. The marketing guru behind the poll is just blurring the line between old people who are kept on as consultants making less much money but really semi-retired and the old people who are just kicked out the door into full retirement. In the real world, the first category might have some serious influence in recommending products and services. It sounds like you are more
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You should have seen v.1 of this poll. It was the first 3 options, then "other". I suggested #4-6, and then they added in retired/consultant, which I think is implying that retired people tend to consult for awhile afterwards. I agree with you that's a bit insulting to people who consult for a living.
I'm not sure why consulting is included in there at all - if you're a consultant, you're still filling one of the other roles described.
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In reality, my role(s) across my medium-sized biz customers fit almost all of the categories listed. In any one day, depending on the customer and their crisis de jour, I'm being a Linux sysadmin, a client-side Javascript coder, a database designer, a maintenance programmer, a WordPress admin, and/or a network intrusion specialist. (And that was just the tally for the last two weeks....)
So, yeah, not sure how that could be reduced to anything except "consultan
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You should hear what the retired think! :p
Seriously though, I am not sure why retired needs to be paired with another or really included at all. It is a poll asking what roll you fill. If you are not working, the poll doesn't apply. That could be taking a break, unemployed, retired, or other.
Unemployed! (Score:3)
Where is that option?
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I'm not sure... put it under "Other", perhaps?
Unemployment in the IT field is still pretty low right now, though, mostly because someone has to keep the servers and the VPN's running to keep businesses alive. If you wanted a job, I'd imagine that Zoom and Netflix are hiring at the moment.
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Well, I'm looking for remote SQA testing jobs.
Former owner of moderately successful web site. (Score:2)
AKA CowboyNeal.
Take the money and RUN.
I mostly sit on a chair,... (Score:2)
go to the loo and drink water, and if I ever do anything else I get blamed for it. Regularly I get promised the chance to be able to do more, but that never manifests. If it wasn't for COVID-19 I'd have quit by now.
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"go to the loo and drink water" ;-)
Well if you're drinking water from the loo then I'm not surprised they're not giving you bigger responsibilities!
Re: I mostly sit on a chair,... (Score:1)
Well, it doesn't have to be from the toilet!
Just make sure it doesn't have electrolytes. ;)
wearing multiple hats (Score:3, Interesting)
This poll is radio button, but maybe should be checkboxes. I do IT-, Network- and dev-Ops; manage staff (are end of year reviews of technical staff IT work or admin? how about budgets?); every now again I do data scientist sort of work; and some of all that is client facing work, which I'd call "consulting" at least sometimes. Or does all that make me other?
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As a tech-startup founder I voted 'other', but agree on checkboxes. Daily work includes HR, AR/AP, production & logistics, IT, QA, hardware and software dev, ops and janitorial, and then back to the spare-time-gig of having two teens and a wife. The only one I'd have to leave unchecked is "retired".
No "software developer" or "software engineer" ? (Score:2)
Idiot (Score:1)
Web developer and sysadmin and Cleaner of others sh*t for beans...
Manufacturing (Score:1)
Machinist, specializing in gear making (Score:2)
I make gears, Bevel, Spur, Helical
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I make gears, Bevel, Spur, Helical
Hat's off to you, sir. I find what you do a building block of the foundation of modern life. I wish more people saw it like that.
I consider the output of your trade art.
Software Development (Score:2)