Do You Work In A Specific Industry?
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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.
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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. :)
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Chris, what's small water? ;P
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
Water that you pass. :laugh: PS. Literally that is what the phrase would mean in Tamil.