MDM for 30k devices sounds like an absolute nightmare. I use MaaS360 for roughly 120 iDevices and I want to pull my thinning hair out on an hourly basis some days.
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I had been running a design firm since 2004, which began as an AEC startup in 1995 after I got out of the AF, and that grew to include domestic mfg capabilities & expanded into cycling and aero. This year I reduced my role in my company to the point that I can teach a couple classes at our local State Uni, which honestly is 100x better work than working in industry making toys for the wealthy & weapons for the poor and dealing with miserable industry people.
I'm looking ahead to a change as well. Will be concluding operations in a few years, & already in anticipation am currently reducing & selling off nearly everything I own. I've been past the breaking point with this entire culture and country for quite some time and it's time to go. I'll probably just pick potatoes and take a vow of silence for the rest of my life when I get where I'm going. No part of any of this has any appeal to me whatsoever anymore & in retrospect all the work has mostly been a huge waste of my life.
I'm looking ahead to a change as well. Will be concluding operations in a few years, & already in anticipation am currently reducing & selling off nearly everything I own. I've been past the breaking point with this entire culture and country for quite some time and it's time to go. I'll probably just pick potatoes and take a vow of silence for the rest of my life when I get where I'm going. No part of any of this has any appeal to me whatsoever anymore & in retrospect all the work has mostly been a huge waste of my life.
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I guess 25 years on I just have to settle for liking my job. I'm not talented enough to love my job and while experience helps, being creative in a creative job (graphic design) helps more. When I retire though I can look back and not regret what I did. It put food on the table and paid the bills.
Unfortunately, what I love and have a passion for, I'm not great at either. And you have to be great to get paid for being a Dungeon Master in fantasy roleplaying games. I'd be homeless.
But here's the thing, once I start getting paid to actually do what I love, then what I love becomes what I do - even if by this adage it's not 'working'. So because I get paid for what I love now, I actually have to show up for it and do it. And do it according to the way the person paying me wants it done. Which defeats the whole point of loving it.
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Glad you found a passion that works for you though. I just think that the person who made that statement was more optimist than realist. I'm 53 and I still haven't figured out what job I'd 'love'.
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My father got his Private Pilot's License on the GI Bill when the Marine Corps let him go in the mid-1950s. He got a Commercial later, used to terrify my mom with acrobatics. My uncle got involved in CAP as a kid (he was older than my dad) and eventually made a career out of cloud-seeding amongst other aviation-oriented jobs.Heh - the pros and cons you've heard are probably all accurate! Like any job it's not perfect, but as someone that loves being around airplanes, I feel pretty privileged to get to do it.
My dad passed on a love of flying to me, but it wasn't until I was engaged trying to get my own Private Pilot's license at 19 that I realized I liked watching aircraft more than I liked flying them.
My instructor in 1990 seems to have gone on to flying Airbus A380s. Good for him. He came to the USA from Sweden with the goal of getting his ATP and working for a major airline as a captain.
So, you're the person who keeps my bank accounts secure!
Possibly, if you are in Tennessee or bits of NC
Haha... it is absolutely a nightmare!
I was NOT bald when I started this job, now I am.
I'm an English as a second language teacher
(It's super ironic when I make any spelling or grammar mistakes LOL)
I teach online and on site classes. Even though I work for a school that teaches multiple languages I'm more of a freelancer than anything else.
Fun fact: I got an M1 MacBook Air to work and out of all my tools and hardware I've ever had, this has been the best by a A LOT
Anyway, other than that. Teaching is the thing that brings bread to my table. I used to be a game tester for 2 years, it was actually quite fun and I had a great time with my fellow testers. However, management was awful and in general the game industry has severe issues with management and corporate strategy as a whole. Also, they pay was low, so I had to keep teaching in order to pay the bills. Eventually, I got a great offer teaching but I got burned out while doing both things, so I had to give up one thing. And although testing promised a stable but low salary and benefits, I was so bored and tired of management at the end, I ultimately decided to stay teaching. Really rough decision, but fortunately it allowed me to rethink my life and do better.
I've always been in love with Software development, games in particular interest me and I'm a very amateur coder. I want to learn more about it and maybe work more with that. I'm also an amateur artist but I don't plan to do much with that since I'm out of practice, so I've also, slowly but surely tried to get better at that as well.
(It's super ironic when I make any spelling or grammar mistakes LOL)
I teach online and on site classes. Even though I work for a school that teaches multiple languages I'm more of a freelancer than anything else.
Fun fact: I got an M1 MacBook Air to work and out of all my tools and hardware I've ever had, this has been the best by a A LOT
Anyway, other than that. Teaching is the thing that brings bread to my table. I used to be a game tester for 2 years, it was actually quite fun and I had a great time with my fellow testers. However, management was awful and in general the game industry has severe issues with management and corporate strategy as a whole. Also, they pay was low, so I had to keep teaching in order to pay the bills. Eventually, I got a great offer teaching but I got burned out while doing both things, so I had to give up one thing. And although testing promised a stable but low salary and benefits, I was so bored and tired of management at the end, I ultimately decided to stay teaching. Really rough decision, but fortunately it allowed me to rethink my life and do better.
I've always been in love with Software development, games in particular interest me and I'm a very amateur coder. I want to learn more about it and maybe work more with that. I'm also an amateur artist but I don't plan to do much with that since I'm out of practice, so I've also, slowly but surely tried to get better at that as well.
Heh - the pros and cons you've heard are probably all accurate! Like any job it's not perfect, but as someone that loves being around airplanes, I feel pretty privileged to get to do it.
I once held a Client who drove from DC to PIT, where he piloted US A Commercial to either LHR or CDG (and back) three or four times a week.
He was rather satisfied with what he did, and I could tell that he found doing-so rewarding-enough.
As someone who has an aversion to take-off/landing (but not the flight, in-and-of-itself), such things are beyond me.
*tips-hat*
Hey, takeoff and landing is the best part!
Incidentally I just landed from LHR about an hour ago.
A couple of years ago we went from Sky Harbor to SeaTac. Was my daughter's first time on an airplane. It was great to see her reaction when the pilot rotated. Sheer fun and pure joy.Hey, takeoff and landing is the best part!
I still experience that insane and exciting thrill (which I first remember experiencing as a teenager, when my mother took me on a short holiday) on take-off, and remain awed at the wonder of (manned) flight.Hey, takeoff and landing is the best part!
My degree was in Computer Engineering, ended up doing more of an EE focused roll.
I was just promoted to Staff Test Engineer at a semiconductor company after 3 years of experience! I always knew I wanted to do something with computers. A life goal of mine is to work at Apple!
I was just promoted to Staff Test Engineer at a semiconductor company after 3 years of experience! I always knew I wanted to do something with computers. A life goal of mine is to work at Apple!
ha!Hey, takeoff and landing is the best part!
Cannot really bypass ours so easily. Assigned directly from Apple before it ships. I've found some of our devices 'lost' in shipping in different states. I send a friendly wallpaper and remove all access to apps ( basically kiosk ) the device and notify Apple. They send me a new one.
Yes; MDM is pretty phenomenal, and must really help simplify management x10000
Harder than I expected, and met some truly talented people. We wrote almost everything from scratch, so no scipy, tensorflow, scikit-learn, and we often HAD to use vectorization to ensure the code ran fast enough to pass requirements.
They are trying very hard to keep the program bleeding edge, for MS side anyway. I have learned things I would have never thought to try. A couple of my favorites were stock trading bots and from adversarial and reinforcement learning algorithms all from scratch. All of the research classes ( Joyner lead ) were amazing.
The program has made me want a PhD! If that means anything.
I say do it, but set some time aside. I did have many 72 hour straight coding sessions trying to find the best solution.
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I'm hoping to branch-out/diverge, and in-state is rather attractive
I don't have a CS Base, so I am prob. not ready for a MS <smile>
I don't have a CS Base, so I am prob. not ready for a MS <smile>