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I feel your pain. I've done so many different things I don't know what I am any more, so I can understand how it's hard to find someplace where people are looking for people like you.

I feel like I'm the inverse of those crazy laundry-list job ads. But maybe someday I'll find someone who needs a sysadmin-like person with a strange hybrid CS/math/science degree who has used too many languages & OSes to keep track of, even things like CAD scripting for a CNC machine, and who has managed to successfully troubleshoot weird, proprietary, undocumented systems used in a glass cutting & tempering operation, and has been called to act as a substitute factory supervisor, first aid provider & even help the maintenance techs on occasion.

But I don't know a soul who wants any of that, and I'm not quite sure what to tell people that I am any more. What do you even do with skills like mine? I guess I can at least take comfort in being currently employed.




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