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I can't really speak to the hiring side, but... I'm a devops engineer who went to art school. I rarely get to exercise my design skills at my day job, sadly. W
by bovermyer 2y ago
I can't really speak to the hiring side, but... I'm a devops engineer who went to art school. I rarely get to exercise my design skills at my day job, sadly.
We exist. There just aren't many of us.
- threetonesun 2y agoNot sure how old you are, but among my friends of 40-50 year olds there's more of us than not, lots of philosophers, musicians, writers, designers, who got drawn to the appeal of the web as a communication platform for interesting media that then ended up getting... I don't want to say stuck but that might be the right word... in jobs that pay well.
- bovermyer 2y agoI'm 42, so that checks out. And yeah, my career started because I had just graduated university (finally) with a history degree, and I decided to turn my coding hobby into a job instead of going to grad school. Then it just snowballed from there.
- hinkley 2y agoYeah but if you hire old people you can't boss them around...