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Discussion on: What jobs did you hold before you got into software?

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Chad Kunde • Edited

Lots of things:

  • Concrete (flat-work)
  • Framing (houses)
  • Landscape/Maintenance (mowed grass, painted buildings, picked up trash, etc)
  • Cashier at a liquor store (during first half of college)
  • Military:
    • Radio Operator
    • Admin clerk (Admin is kind of like HR sans hiring/firing)
    • Admin section head (some dev with available tools => VBA and SQL)
    • Operations planner (near lethal dose of Excel and Powerpoint)
  • Undergrad research assistant (during second half of college ~10yrs later)
  • Developer (after graduation, started at 33yrs old)