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Zarxrax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Graduated around 2008 as the economy was crashing, and struggled to find anything. Eventually got hired at a call center for a large company (about a year after I had applied for it). After a few years of that I was able to transfer into a different department where I didn’t have to deal with customers directly, then kept getting promoted to different positions until I found one I was really comfortable in.
Flagstaff@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Cool! What role is that now?
Zarxrax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m kind of in between the business and tech. I make sure some of our internal software is running correctly and I run SQL queries and stuff to look for problems in our data. I can help create stories to pass to IT for them to develop fixes for issues or for new functionality in our software.
Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Interesting. I’ve often wondered if I should try to learn SQL… I suppose it can’t hurt to git gud.
Zarxrax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I basically just learned it on the job, from examining some existing queries that we used and then messing around with it, and a few tutorials on the side.