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Ask HN: What Is Your Profession?

I am reading HN several times a day and, just out of pure curiosity, I was wondering what are the professions that most people that read HN have. I am a product guy, btw.

nosmokewhereiam 6y ago
Cyber threat Intel, but now it's mostly indoor horticulture and extraction.
- d95730 6y ago
  What does a "Cyber threat Intel" do? Can you perhaps elaborate a little more on this, please?
crazypython 6y ago
Make a poll: https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
- d95730 6y ago
  "Sorry, you need over 200 karma to create a poll." It seems like OP cannot do that...
ashish1521 6y ago
80% Marketing guy 20% dev person, specialist in SaaS and product marketing.
- d95730 6y ago
  Interesting. So how come you ended up 80 % in marketing and 20 % as a developer? Do you have a CS background? Or is it perhaps an economic/business admin degree? If I am not mistaking, James McNellis from Microsoft had a philosophy degree. So apparently it doesn't matter what degree you have, the only metric that seems to be of importance is your ability to code.
  - ashish1521 6y ago
    My degree never taught me anything useful as is the case with most of the degrees i assume. I started my career by learning JAVA, PHP and some frameworks. After a few years started working on digital marketing (again self taught) and fast forward another few years, I work in marketing mostly, but do develop websites or tech products when needed.
d95730 6y ago
CS undergrad
danielkyne 6y ago
I'm the co-founder and CEO of startup called OpinionX (www.opinionx.co) - we've built a dynamic survey tool where people vote on each other's opinions to identify consensus at scale. Based in Dublin, Ireland.
Bvalmont1 6y ago
Product Designer hoping to someday find a post here to automate my day job so I can spend more time making actual great products.
jeromuhi 6y ago
HAZWOPER Foreman
chrisrickard 6y ago
Software developer.... Turned agency owner... But now I have sold my agency after 8 years I and am a "Technical lead"... But by the end of this year will be back to a Software developer (which I am looking forward to!)
MyPath_finder 6y ago
Lawyer, legal tech startup founder and now founder of www.mypath.ai - personal ai based career assistant.
simonhfrost 6y ago
Frontend Software Engineer, trying to get more into UX
ukoms 6y ago
Along with being software dev - political sciences major, high school teacher, writer...

I am reading HN several times a day and, just out of pure curiosity, I was wondering what are the professions that most people that read HN have. I am a product guy, btw.

nosmokewhereiam 6y ago

Cyber threat Intel, but now it's mostly indoor horticulture and extraction.

d95730 6y ago
What does a "Cyber threat Intel" do? Can you perhaps elaborate a little more on this, please?

crazypython 6y ago

Make a poll: https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

d95730 6y ago
"Sorry, you need over 200 karma to create a poll." It seems like OP cannot do that...

ashish1521 6y ago

80% Marketing guy 20% dev person, specialist in SaaS and product marketing.

d95730 6y ago
Interesting. So how come you ended up 80 % in marketing and 20 % as a developer? Do you have a CS background? Or is it perhaps an economic/business admin degree? If I am not mistaking, James McNellis from Microsoft had a philosophy degree. So apparently it doesn't matter what degree you have, the only metric that seems to be of importance is your ability to code.
- ashish1521 6y ago
  My degree never taught me anything useful as is the case with most of the degrees i assume. I started my career by learning JAVA, PHP and some frameworks. After a few years started working on digital marketing (again self taught) and fast forward another few years, I work in marketing mostly, but do develop websites or tech products when needed.

d95730 6y ago

CS undergrad

danielkyne 6y ago

I'm the co-founder and CEO of startup called OpinionX (www.opinionx.co) - we've built a dynamic survey tool where people vote on each other's opinions to identify consensus at scale. Based in Dublin, Ireland.

Bvalmont1 6y ago

Product Designer hoping to someday find a post here to automate my day job so I can spend more time making actual great products.

jeromuhi 6y ago

HAZWOPER Foreman

chrisrickard 6y ago

Software developer.... Turned agency owner... But now I have sold my agency after 8 years I and am a "Technical lead"... But by the end of this year will be back to a Software developer (which I am looking forward to!)

MyPath_finder 6y ago

Lawyer, legal tech startup founder and now founder of www.mypath.ai - personal ai based career assistant.

simonhfrost 6y ago

Frontend Software Engineer, trying to get more into UX

ukoms 6y ago

Along with being software dev - political sciences major, high school teacher, writer...