Do You Work In A Specific Industry?
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I've heard of places like that. I never understood the idea behind it. I once asked a tech recruiter why I didn't qualify due to the fact that I didn't have a degree, and he explained that it's not so much about the specific education, but more about the fact that it somehow "proves" that someone is dedicated. That they're responsible. That they're able to accomplish goals accordingly, in a timely manner. I still don't have a degree. I don't have a GED yet, because I made a bad move and dropped out of school after my junior year. Not proud of it, but it's true. However, I plan to obtain my GED in the near future, and possibly a degree, depending on how my employer feels it may affect me many years down the road when I move into a much higher position. I've always taught myself through experimentation and reading articles/tutorials, for about 16 years now since I was 11 years old. When I got into this job, they told me in the beginning that, when possible, they prefer someone who is self taught, because it definitely shows that you have a passion for it, and not just a piece of paper saying someone taught you generic concepts from a textbook. And I agree.
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
More than half my class at uni were completely unemployable in the field, both before and after they picked up their diplomas.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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There are so many industries that software development and related services can apply to. I'm just curious what industries you all work in. I personally work in the healthcare industry, for a company that supports and manages various hospitals, physician practices, etc., around the United States. I've also done development in a manufacturing environment and in a letter shop/printing service. How long have you been in your industry, and do you still enjoy it? Before I landed my current role, I had been thinking for a while about how I would like to get into development in the healthcare industry. I don't know exactly what it is about healthcare that grabbed my interest, but I've loved it so far, though I've only been here for almost two months. It's a wonderful company, the work is plentiful, I have plenty of exposure to the latest technologies along with maintaining software built on older technologies. I feel confident that I will be able to grow here for a long time. The reason I say "specific industry" in the title is that I know there are so many industries, but some places don't necessarily specialize in one single industry. If you do contract/consulting work on your own, for example, you may work with all sorts of different industries.
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
Hmmm...Let's see... E-commerce (mostly backend, data processing, GUI front-end at times too ) These days, I work for a company that creates software for OTN management, planning and optimization. Pretty interesting, really :)
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There are so many industries that software development and related services can apply to. I'm just curious what industries you all work in. I personally work in the healthcare industry, for a company that supports and manages various hospitals, physician practices, etc., around the United States. I've also done development in a manufacturing environment and in a letter shop/printing service. How long have you been in your industry, and do you still enjoy it? Before I landed my current role, I had been thinking for a while about how I would like to get into development in the healthcare industry. I don't know exactly what it is about healthcare that grabbed my interest, but I've loved it so far, though I've only been here for almost two months. It's a wonderful company, the work is plentiful, I have plenty of exposure to the latest technologies along with maintaining software built on older technologies. I feel confident that I will be able to grow here for a long time. The reason I say "specific industry" in the title is that I know there are so many industries, but some places don't necessarily specialize in one single industry. If you do contract/consulting work on your own, for example, you may work with all sorts of different industries.
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
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There are so many industries that software development and related services can apply to. I'm just curious what industries you all work in. I personally work in the healthcare industry, for a company that supports and manages various hospitals, physician practices, etc., around the United States. I've also done development in a manufacturing environment and in a letter shop/printing service. How long have you been in your industry, and do you still enjoy it? Before I landed my current role, I had been thinking for a while about how I would like to get into development in the healthcare industry. I don't know exactly what it is about healthcare that grabbed my interest, but I've loved it so far, though I've only been here for almost two months. It's a wonderful company, the work is plentiful, I have plenty of exposure to the latest technologies along with maintaining software built on older technologies. I feel confident that I will be able to grow here for a long time. The reason I say "specific industry" in the title is that I know there are so many industries, but some places don't necessarily specialize in one single industry. If you do contract/consulting work on your own, for example, you may work with all sorts of different industries.
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
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I think it comes down to what you call yourselves, you are an engineer and Eddy is a software developer. You have very different concepts on what you do, you must be a domain expert as well as a developer, Eddy, and I, need domain experts to function as developers.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
You have very different concepts on what you do, you must be a domain expert as well as a developer, Eddy, and I, need domain experts to function as developers.
Probably true. We're a smallish (450 employees worldwide) family owned business. We don't hire pure developers for short periods of time. We hire people who plan to stay a good long time and become experts in our industry. Different world I guess...
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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There are so many industries that software development and related services can apply to. I'm just curious what industries you all work in. I personally work in the healthcare industry, for a company that supports and manages various hospitals, physician practices, etc., around the United States. I've also done development in a manufacturing environment and in a letter shop/printing service. How long have you been in your industry, and do you still enjoy it? Before I landed my current role, I had been thinking for a while about how I would like to get into development in the healthcare industry. I don't know exactly what it is about healthcare that grabbed my interest, but I've loved it so far, though I've only been here for almost two months. It's a wonderful company, the work is plentiful, I have plenty of exposure to the latest technologies along with maintaining software built on older technologies. I feel confident that I will be able to grow here for a long time. The reason I say "specific industry" in the title is that I know there are so many industries, but some places don't necessarily specialize in one single industry. If you do contract/consulting work on your own, for example, you may work with all sorts of different industries.
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote:
You have very different concepts on what you do, you must be a domain expert as well as a developer, Eddy, and I, need domain experts to function as developers.
Probably true. We're a smallish (450 employees worldwide) family owned business. We don't hire pure developers for short periods of time. We hire people who plan to stay a good long time and become experts in our industry. Different world I guess...
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
Mike Mullikin wrote:
We don't hire pure developers tarts for short periods of time
FTFY
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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There are so many industries that software development and related services can apply to. I'm just curious what industries you all work in. I personally work in the healthcare industry, for a company that supports and manages various hospitals, physician practices, etc., around the United States. I've also done development in a manufacturing environment and in a letter shop/printing service. How long have you been in your industry, and do you still enjoy it? Before I landed my current role, I had been thinking for a while about how I would like to get into development in the healthcare industry. I don't know exactly what it is about healthcare that grabbed my interest, but I've loved it so far, though I've only been here for almost two months. It's a wonderful company, the work is plentiful, I have plenty of exposure to the latest technologies along with maintaining software built on older technologies. I feel confident that I will be able to grow here for a long time. The reason I say "specific industry" in the title is that I know there are so many industries, but some places don't necessarily specialize in one single industry. If you do contract/consulting work on your own, for example, you may work with all sorts of different industries.
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
Third Party Logistics for 12 years and am now in High Education at a major public university. I preform consulting services to the third party logistics company for triple my salary when i worked for them.
Eric
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There are so many industries that software development and related services can apply to. I'm just curious what industries you all work in. I personally work in the healthcare industry, for a company that supports and manages various hospitals, physician practices, etc., around the United States. I've also done development in a manufacturing environment and in a letter shop/printing service. How long have you been in your industry, and do you still enjoy it? Before I landed my current role, I had been thinking for a while about how I would like to get into development in the healthcare industry. I don't know exactly what it is about healthcare that grabbed my interest, but I've loved it so far, though I've only been here for almost two months. It's a wonderful company, the work is plentiful, I have plenty of exposure to the latest technologies along with maintaining software built on older technologies. I feel confident that I will be able to grow here for a long time. The reason I say "specific industry" in the title is that I know there are so many industries, but some places don't necessarily specialize in one single industry. If you do contract/consulting work on your own, for example, you may work with all sorts of different industries.
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
Manufacturing/Food service - Pork (6 yrs) Healthcare - Medicare (12 yrs) Transportation - Barging (4 yrs)
David Williams
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Defense. Navy. US Gov't employee. Highlights: Navair, ES-3A, NavSea, Aegis 5" gun, Tomahawk Launch Control. Couple trips to Iraq to work counter-IED. Retired now, but it was more interesting than the manufacturing sector I started out in.
Very nice. Sounds like it'd be a hectic job, since that sector is extremely critical. Not sure what kind of quality measures they have in place, but I'd think the slightest "off" code could cost more money than I know. Haha.
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
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Mike Mullikin wrote:
We don't hire pure developers tarts for short periods of time
FTFY
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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There are so many industries that software development and related services can apply to. I'm just curious what industries you all work in. I personally work in the healthcare industry, for a company that supports and manages various hospitals, physician practices, etc., around the United States. I've also done development in a manufacturing environment and in a letter shop/printing service. How long have you been in your industry, and do you still enjoy it? Before I landed my current role, I had been thinking for a while about how I would like to get into development in the healthcare industry. I don't know exactly what it is about healthcare that grabbed my interest, but I've loved it so far, though I've only been here for almost two months. It's a wonderful company, the work is plentiful, I have plenty of exposure to the latest technologies along with maintaining software built on older technologies. I feel confident that I will be able to grow here for a long time. The reason I say "specific industry" in the title is that I know there are so many industries, but some places don't necessarily specialize in one single industry. If you do contract/consulting work on your own, for example, you may work with all sorts of different industries.
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
Last 14 years in the industrial control biz, specifically industrial refrigeration. everything from windows computers with serial ports down to embedded devices, controlling: O2 & Co2 levels, pressures and temperatures, power shedding..... Personally I love it; code that modifies a database record is boring :zzz: , code that interacts with the real world is fun :-D If I ever decided to leave this industry, wearables or medical devices have a certain calling.
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Very nice. Sounds like it'd be a hectic job, since that sector is extremely critical. Not sure what kind of quality measures they have in place, but I'd think the slightest "off" code could cost more money than I know. Haha.
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
ES-3A had excellent quality control, Tomahawk very nearly as good as ES-3A, Aegis Gun quality sucked. The gun had an impossible development schedule and the people were just demoralized and didn't try very hard at quality, although I thought we could do better, and was glad to leave the project. Yeah, it was hectic but rewarding. When your software works, it saves soldiers and sailors. If it doesn't, they may die, which was my concern with the gun. Don't know of any incidents where sailors were hurt, but the potential was there.
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ES-3A had excellent quality control, Tomahawk very nearly as good as ES-3A, Aegis Gun quality sucked. The gun had an impossible development schedule and the people were just demoralized and didn't try very hard at quality, although I thought we could do better, and was glad to leave the project. Yeah, it was hectic but rewarding. When your software works, it saves soldiers and sailors. If it doesn't, they may die, which was my concern with the gun. Don't know of any incidents where sailors were hurt, but the potential was there.
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There are so many industries that software development and related services can apply to. I'm just curious what industries you all work in. I personally work in the healthcare industry, for a company that supports and manages various hospitals, physician practices, etc., around the United States. I've also done development in a manufacturing environment and in a letter shop/printing service. How long have you been in your industry, and do you still enjoy it? Before I landed my current role, I had been thinking for a while about how I would like to get into development in the healthcare industry. I don't know exactly what it is about healthcare that grabbed my interest, but I've loved it so far, though I've only been here for almost two months. It's a wonderful company, the work is plentiful, I have plenty of exposure to the latest technologies along with maintaining software built on older technologies. I feel confident that I will be able to grow here for a long time. The reason I say "specific industry" in the title is that I know there are so many industries, but some places don't necessarily specialize in one single industry. If you do contract/consulting work on your own, for example, you may work with all sorts of different industries.
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
I started out in Sub-marines and now I'm in aviation. Being certified software there are a lot of hoops to jump through and it can sometimes feel more like we've checked some boxes rather than add anything to the software quality. But overall, I enjoy the safety-critical real-time aspects to programming.
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There are so many industries that software development and related services can apply to. I'm just curious what industries you all work in. I personally work in the healthcare industry, for a company that supports and manages various hospitals, physician practices, etc., around the United States. I've also done development in a manufacturing environment and in a letter shop/printing service. How long have you been in your industry, and do you still enjoy it? Before I landed my current role, I had been thinking for a while about how I would like to get into development in the healthcare industry. I don't know exactly what it is about healthcare that grabbed my interest, but I've loved it so far, though I've only been here for almost two months. It's a wonderful company, the work is plentiful, I have plenty of exposure to the latest technologies along with maintaining software built on older technologies. I feel confident that I will be able to grow here for a long time. The reason I say "specific industry" in the title is that I know there are so many industries, but some places don't necessarily specialize in one single industry. If you do contract/consulting work on your own, for example, you may work with all sorts of different industries.
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
I work in county government in the Pacific Northwest of USA. I mostly write and support apps for law and justice type departments - Superior Court (case tracking, drug court, trial calendaring), Sheriff (applicant processing), Corrections (staff timesheet tracking), Prosecutor (civil case management), Medical Examiner (case tracking), Juvenile Detention (detainee tracking), etc. I've been here for 14 years, and still enjoy it. I plan to work here until I retire.
AL
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There are so many industries that software development and related services can apply to. I'm just curious what industries you all work in. I personally work in the healthcare industry, for a company that supports and manages various hospitals, physician practices, etc., around the United States. I've also done development in a manufacturing environment and in a letter shop/printing service. How long have you been in your industry, and do you still enjoy it? Before I landed my current role, I had been thinking for a while about how I would like to get into development in the healthcare industry. I don't know exactly what it is about healthcare that grabbed my interest, but I've loved it so far, though I've only been here for almost two months. It's a wonderful company, the work is plentiful, I have plenty of exposure to the latest technologies along with maintaining software built on older technologies. I feel confident that I will be able to grow here for a long time. The reason I say "specific industry" in the title is that I know there are so many industries, but some places don't necessarily specialize in one single industry. If you do contract/consulting work on your own, for example, you may work with all sorts of different industries.
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
Start out in USDA-ARS doing crop simulations research and records keeping system for 10 years. Move on to check printing (manufacture automated assembly line control), print checks, process orders. If you belong to a credit unions, chances are software I wrote prints your checks. Did that for 9 years. I'm back in the federal government in the nuclear research sector for 5 years now. Wrote software ranging from micro-controllers, hardware automations to client/servers, database and web developments. Lately I have the pleasure to write a 100% JavaScript client side web application. How technologies have turn on it head!! :doh:
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The letter shop I worked for was my first major role in the professional world, so to speak. While I enjoyed the people I worked with, and I enjoyed the company's culture, it was very limiting. They're only about 13 years old, they're locally owned/operated, and they have about 75 employees total, in one local facility. They were very closed minded from a development standpoint. Limited to core technologies, like C#/.Net, some HTML and JavaScript. It was a wonderful place to really get my foot in the door in the development world. I don't have a bad thing to say about my experience there, other than I feel like I basically grew out of where I was. There wasn't really any room for advancement, because there were only about 15 people in IT altogether, so there was nowhere for me to go. The only software I ever got my hands into was their internal system that would parse clients' files (various formats including flat text, CSV, XML, etc.) and pass the data along to an existing service that would handle the rest. So I didn't get to do much there. I didn't want to be bored and halted in career growth.
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
My company was pretty much the same, though I started further back in the pipeline than what you described. Then they got bought, and bought again. Went from one office with ~60 employees to dozens of offices, and over 2000 employees. You know, never changed jobs, but changed companies and business cards several times, that sort of thing. The current company's IT department is larger than the place I started with. :)
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You and I both! What we are has been established, all we need to work out is the pay!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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gotit!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
Thank you both for giving me a genuine laugh this morning. :)