chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]

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Joined 2 years ago
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Cake day: November 8th, 2022

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  • It’s all just having an in or “right time right place”, literally chance and luck lol, and the number of times and places are shrinking with automation and shit.

    I didn't know anyone going in, not sure if it's helpful experience though. I wouldn't say I have any particular acumen and the experience only reaffirmed my prior socialist tendencies

    I was basically obsessed with the computer as a kid. This led to me as a minor contributing to P2P software, getting involved in the operation of a torrent tracker+website, ultimately getting charged with lots of felonies which were luckily expunged at 18. But I learned infinitely more doing all of that than I did in a year and a half of uni before I left. I did computer repair in the area and then my first office job was a company with 40K employees in the country. Just migrating people’s shit from busted/failing PCs when they took PTO or the device had become unusable. I buddied up to the ancient infosec team who would come around if they needed to grab/image hard drives for investigations/legal holds. I spent some down time at work on one of their big projects, that involved 20 years of asset->employee relationship history that wasn’t of super high quality. I think they were originally trying to figure out how to do it with Excel. I moved from infosec to data engineering/legacy migration consulting off that experience and the referrals at that org.