Hello guys. My name is Jay, I am 18 years old and live in Stuttgart, Germany. Currently I am doing my first tech job at smark, we're building automated vending machines, especially supermarkets who want to offer things at night (and on the weekens). In Germany there are some laws that disallow opening stores on sundays, and in Bavaria (where everyone else in the world thinks the best German beer cames from), they are even more restricted, requiring stores to close at 8pm everyday. Gas stations are open longer, but aren't allow to sell you drinks, etc. if you don't buy gas on them.
My part is mostly doing networking stuff, which means: building ethernet cables, hanging up access points for free WiFi for our customers, VLANs and all that stuff. Not enough, also doing video surveillance in the store. Happy to work with Ubiquiti equipment for almost a year now which brought me into this job.
When I am out of my job, I love travelling. Mostly do this in trains, next trip is Vienna starting monday, and then continue to Berlin with a night train, so awesome.
FunFact about me: I always wanted to become a train driver (and still want to), I was able to run some trains throughout Germany while working at German railways; it's an awesome feeling running besides the Autobahn with 300 km/h when everyone else is stuck in traffic.
I'm a friendly, non-dev, cisgender guy from NC who enjoys playing music/making noise, hiking, eating veggies, and hanging out with my best friend/wife + our 3 kitties + 1 greyhound.
Interesting to hear the background behind smark! I can definitely understand the need. I currently live in North Carolina in the states, and there are loads of stores that close on Sunday. It's great that folks have off, but it is a bummer when you want to go buy something. This would be super helpful!
Aside from that, I'm also a big fan of traveling. Currently, I'm in Costa Rica looking for a place to rent! I hope to live here for a while and travel around Central and South America.
Anyway, hope you dig the community here! Lots of friendly folks. 😀
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Hello guys. My name is Jay, I am 18 years old and live in Stuttgart, Germany. Currently I am doing my first tech job at smark, we're building automated vending machines, especially supermarkets who want to offer things at night (and on the weekens). In Germany there are some laws that disallow opening stores on sundays, and in Bavaria (where everyone else in the world thinks the best German beer cames from), they are even more restricted, requiring stores to close at 8pm everyday. Gas stations are open longer, but aren't allow to sell you drinks, etc. if you don't buy gas on them.
This is our first new store in Stuttgart: vimeo.com/359491635/5c03f403c1
My part is mostly doing networking stuff, which means: building ethernet cables, hanging up access points for free WiFi for our customers, VLANs and all that stuff. Not enough, also doing video surveillance in the store. Happy to work with Ubiquiti equipment for almost a year now which brought me into this job.
When I am out of my job, I love travelling. Mostly do this in trains, next trip is Vienna starting monday, and then continue to Berlin with a night train, so awesome.
FunFact about me: I always wanted to become a train driver (and still want to), I was able to run some trains throughout Germany while working at German railways; it's an awesome feeling running besides the Autobahn with 300 km/h when everyone else is stuck in traffic.
Cheers!
Welcome to DEV, Jakob!
Interesting to hear the background behind smark! I can definitely understand the need. I currently live in North Carolina in the states, and there are loads of stores that close on Sunday. It's great that folks have off, but it is a bummer when you want to go buy something. This would be super helpful!
Aside from that, I'm also a big fan of traveling. Currently, I'm in Costa Rica looking for a place to rent! I hope to live here for a while and travel around Central and South America.
Anyway, hope you dig the community here! Lots of friendly folks. 😀