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I'm now a pro magic the gathering player! Never thought I'd ascend to such heights, I'm terrible at magic lol

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[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 70 points 4 months ago

weirdly I'm still a Linux administrator but with way more fun services to maintain.

[-] save_the_humans@leminal.space 10 points 4 months ago

Can I ask how you got a job as a Linux administrator?

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 months ago

Easy, you mention you want to use BSD and the other IT guys give you that look.

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I'm stuck on RHEL lmao but using BSD for work would be fun

[-] ZarkleFarkle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

I'm not a Linux admin, but I think there are certifications you can get and exams you can take to show you understand stuff about shell scripting and related topics, if that's what you're interested in.

I think they have questions like "Make it so a welcome message and the time display when someone logs into your Linux server", among other, harder things.

I don't know a huge amount about the job market, but just saying you have those kinds of skills on your CV along with a bit of experience in some other tech/coding/data stuff might even be enough.

[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Been using Linux for 25 years so i don't know if it's comparable to today but ironically it was setting up game servers for fun. Then i applied for a game sever hosting provider. i think they have mostly died out now. Then just kinda jumped over to web hosting this was before cloud was a thing. Then kinda moved into internal IT running corporate IT. The nice thing being 100% Linux admin i don't have to mess with AD and FSMO. Even though I know how to i keep quiet about that.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 29 points 4 months ago

Huh, I now get paid to waste time staring at the internet. Neat, I guess?

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago

Urgh, better than being paid to start online fights. Your mother?

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 4 points 4 months ago

MY MOTHER'S A SAINT

[-] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 25 points 4 months ago

'office/M365 tutor for geriatrics'

Compared to actual title

"Director of Information Systems"

Every day makes me understand Marvin from HHGTTG more and more.

[-] EchoCT@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

I feel that in my soul. I'm a sysadmin, however it's mostly password resets ๐Ÿฅฒ

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[-] MelonYellow@lemmy.ca 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

RN = Refreshments and Narcotics

[-] LordGimp@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

Are you me?

[-] RacerX@lemm.ee 22 points 4 months ago

Director of building Magic the Gathering commander decks but not actually playing them

[-] rustyfish@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

I feel you. Moxfield is my greatest enemy.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 months ago

Greeeeat, now I'm jerking off someone for money.

Jokes aside, writing is the predominant single activity I engage in that's in the spirit of the question, and I've made some money doing it here and there. But it was never my job.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 17 points 3 months ago

As an Uber driver, I do everything I can to put people at ease. I end up in many deep, heartfelt conversations with my passengers. I introduce people to new music, and spread information about homeless assistance programs and other resources around the Denver area.

Uber is the platform from which I do my work as a community supporter.

I do Uber my own way, according to my vision. I am an Uber Mensch.

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 months ago

Professional slanderer of programming languages.

I've spent more time than I care to admit

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[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

Professional Cat Petter! ๐Ÿ˜ป

[-] MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago

You guys have time for other things? I do my job and can fill my day with that. I sometimes have to stand my ground to make other people understand that no, I cannot do this additional tasks everyday, I don't have the time for that.

95% of the time it is busy. The other 5% I use to catch up with the stuff I have no time for when it is busy.

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

If I didn't make time to do anything besides work and sleep like that I would literally go insane after about 2 weeks

[-] MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Well that is when I am at work. My work times are clearly defined and when the time is over, I go home. So I am limited to about 8 hours in a day, with a very rare exception of 15 minutes longer.

After work and in the weekends I still have time to chill, but at work I have no downtime except for breaks. Luckily my boss also knows how busy we are and doesn't complain if I cannot get everything finished, he just tells me what is a priority and what not.

That is really helpful for the stress levels, but it is still a pretty stressful job.

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[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Professional YouTube Watcher or Professional Hobbyist Language Learner.

[-] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 months ago

Professional manual analysis of herbal terpinoid content (ignition-form expert).

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Guitarist/cross stitcher, with a side job as a professional TV watcher lol

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

I'm a professional social media browser.

I think I'd actually kill myself.

[-] MTK@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Linux admin ๐Ÿ˜Œ

[-] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 7 points 4 months ago

Professional sleeper.

That should pretty much be the answer for anyone with a full-time job.

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[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There was this Russian developer who got jailed for something a couple years back. I've looked up his website and it was a giant field of mines. Up to the challenge, I've proceeded for weeks to try to clear it during work hours. Finally managed and all I got was something akin to a laugh.wav as a reward.

Guess I'm a minesweeper.

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[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago
[-] Engineer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 months ago

Power point archivist and people tracker downer!

[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

~~I really don't want to play Arma professionally~~ I misunderstood the question

[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 6 points 4 months ago

I basically do farming at the level of a second job, so I suppose it would be that even though I don't do it commercially (yet).

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[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Sysadmin cosplayer or Barista.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 points 4 months ago

One thing I spend some time on is building out my Lego city.

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[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

Human Lemming

[-] superkret@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago

Linux Sysadmin. Funnily enough, that's the career I'm in after procrastinating a lot during my ecology studies.

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[-] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Either a Game Developer or a Writer. If only...

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[-] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago

Current Job title: programmer

Effective job title: Sysadmin.

[-] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 months ago

I'm a professional drinker.

[-] TheLameSauce@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Of water, right?

Right?

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

I'm a pro TTRPG think-abouter... Or a pro Pathfinder prepper.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Please refer to me as Total War XMunk in the future. I shall reign terror upon this land.

Well, either that or I'm now a professional pilgrim... gosh, I wish you could get paid for just walking a lot.

[-] Trollivier@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Well, I would be a comic book creator... With video game screenshots.

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