+1 to this one. I cut my teeth writing boring in house business software, some 15 years of that. Time went on and the company started to automate, so as the in house software guy I ended up messing with various pieces of industrial automation. It has been interesting, I’ve learned a lot and coming from outside sometimes I can think non conventional approach to a problem.

Oh, and find a laptop with real RS-232 -port. Protect it with your life.

If this comes to pass I’ll just revert to ways of my youth. I’ll spend more times with books and there is no such thing as online communication or SMS or anything.

I do what I can to not have that future.

All joking aside I’ve just scrolled random amount on scrolling ones and just hit ‘end’ on dropdowns for decades.

Anything that really needs my actual birthday has a proper method of authenticating who I am.

It’s really not that hard. I’m the IT department for a medium sized bakery operation. Around 200 employees. This just means that I’m available when it really is necessary. I’m in situ or on call when orders come in and when shipments go out.

In the end I’m cheaper than outsourcing all the in house software and hardware. And I’m available at 3am when the bakers do their thing.

And yeah, I do have somebody somewhat trained in every bakery. When they’re at end of their wit I’m the person they call.

In the end, I’m around 1% of the payroll. IT is not that special.

I’m ancient, websites with little to no CSS (and absolutely no client side scripts) are refreshing. I don’t know if I’d like all of web to be like that, but there’s something to be said for the absolute individuality of everybody writing their sites from scratch.

It’s way too easy to spin up a Wordpress installation and be done with it.

Salute!

It’s really great to be able to browse via all - these days it’s very easy to bubble up in some echo chamber. I’ve been here since the great API apocalypse and you all have made me research so many topics I’d never looked up on my own.

Find something middle sized. I work in a bakery, around 200 employees. I do some industrial automation, in house IT support and I ended up writing ERP for the joint. I think I could get 20 to 30 percent more at a larger company but here I do what I want and not what I’m told to.