3 ms·
What were you doing offshore? Commissioning for topsides is it? How did you pivot from field to coding job?
by kk58 8y ago
What were you doing offshore? Commissioning for topsides is it? How did you pivot from field to coding job?
- DyslexicAtheist 8y agoI was a Commercial Diver moving into Life Support Technician/ Superviser work. Then got a lot of free time (the mentioned boredom) so started getting into Linux, Scripting, C, ... then wrote a program that would implement the Oceaneering Manual in code (how much gas do you need for a 30 day job with 6 divers in a chamber, how much soda for the CO2 scrubbers, if they work on 500 ft and live at 470 ft and you do X number of bell-runs) then spent more time and had more fun implementing this than doing the actual LST work. I also worked a lot together with the ROV operators (who aren't just operating them but the good ones are building them from scratch), and these guys were a real inspiration. I could have chosen ROV's but it what I wanted to get away from was my future life at sea. nuff said I ended up finding a job back on land as a software engineer and now had time to take evening courses and get deeper into CompSci
- fjsolwmv 8y agoYou're in good company. Linus Torvalds wrote https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsurface_(software) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsurface_(software)
- DyslexicAtheist 8y agoLMAO I had no idea. Thanks for this :D