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I'm now a pro magic the gathering player! Never thought I'd ascend to such heights, I'm terrible at magic lol

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[-] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago

weirdly I'm still a Linux administrator but with way more fun services to maintain.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Can I ask how you got a job as a Linux administrator?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Easy, you mention you want to use BSD and the other IT guys give you that look.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I'm not a Linux admin, but I think there are certifications you can get and exams you can take to show you understand stuff about shell scripting and related topics, if that's what you're interested in.

I think they have questions like "Make it so a welcome message and the time display when someone logs into your Linux server", among other, harder things.

I don't know a huge amount about the job market, but just saying you have those kinds of skills on your CV along with a bit of experience in some other tech/coding/data stuff might even be enough.

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

Huh, I now get paid to waste time staring at the internet. Neat, I guess?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Urgh, better than being paid to start online fights. Your mother?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

MY MOTHER'S A SAINT

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

RN = Refreshments and Narcotics

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Are you me?

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

'office/M365 tutor for geriatrics'

Compared to actual title

"Director of Information Systems"

Every day makes me understand Marvin from HHGTTG more and more.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I feel that in my soul. I'm a sysadmin, however it's mostly password resets ๐Ÿฅฒ

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Greeeeat, now I'm jerking off someone for money.

Jokes aside, writing is the predominant single activity I engage in that's in the spirit of the question, and I've made some money doing it here and there. But it was never my job.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Director of building Magic the Gathering commander decks but not actually playing them

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I feel you. Moxfield is my greatest enemy.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Professional slanderer of programming languages.

I've spent more time than I care to admit

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

As an Uber driver, I do everything I can to put people at ease. I end up in many deep, heartfelt conversations with my passengers. I introduce people to new music, and spread information about homeless assistance programs and other resources around the Denver area.

Uber is the platform from which I do my work as a community supporter.

I do Uber my own way, according to my vision. I am an Uber Mensch.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Professional Cat Petter! ๐Ÿ˜ป

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

You guys have time for other things? I do my job and can fill my day with that. I sometimes have to stand my ground to make other people understand that no, I cannot do this additional tasks everyday, I don't have the time for that.

95% of the time it is busy. The other 5% I use to catch up with the stuff I have no time for when it is busy.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

If I didn't make time to do anything besides work and sleep like that I would literally go insane after about 2 weeks

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Well that is when I am at work. My work times are clearly defined and when the time is over, I go home. So I am limited to about 8 hours in a day, with a very rare exception of 15 minutes longer.

After work and in the weekends I still have time to chill, but at work I have no downtime except for breaks. Luckily my boss also knows how busy we are and doesn't complain if I cannot get everything finished, he just tells me what is a priority and what not.

That is really helpful for the stress levels, but it is still a pretty stressful job.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Professional manual analysis of herbal terpinoid content (ignition-form expert).

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Professional YouTube Watcher or Professional Hobbyist Language Learner.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Guitarist/cross stitcher, with a side job as a professional TV watcher lol

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I'm a professional social media browser.

I think I'd actually kill myself.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Linux admin ๐Ÿ˜Œ

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Professional sleeper.

That should pretty much be the answer for anyone with a full-time job.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

professional internet browserist. there are 16 hours between sleeping and multitasking.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There was this Russian developer who got jailed for something a couple years back. I've looked up his website and it was a giant field of mines. Up to the challenge, I've proceeded for weeks to try to clear it during work hours. Finally managed and all I got was something akin to a laugh.wav as a reward.

Guess I'm a minesweeper.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I basically do farming at the level of a second job, so I suppose it would be that even though I don't do it commercially (yet).

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Power point archivist and people tracker downer!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~~I really don't want to play Arma professionally~~ I misunderstood the question

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

One thing I spend some time on is building out my Lego city.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Current Job title: programmer

Effective job title: Sysadmin.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sysadmin cosplayer or Barista.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Human Lemming

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Either a Game Developer or a Writer. If only...

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Linux Sysadmin. Funnily enough, that's the career I'm in after procrastinating a lot during my ecology studies.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'm a professional drinker.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Of water, right?

Right?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Professional Kingdom of Loathing player, I guess! I may spend more time on other things, but other than biological necessities, KoL is the only thing I do every day no matter where I am ๐Ÿ˜

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I gave up in my second month of grinding for rare vertebrae for the Bone Dragon. Glad to know more patient people have fun with KoL. GLHF

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Using KolMafia for configurable automation and tons of other helpful scripts and the wiki to look stuff up helps tremendously! If I had to go without either, I'd probably burn out pretty fast too lol

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I had the wiki then, did not know about the mods. This was, maybe, 2007 lol

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

VR game level designer. Neat!

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