Comment on A good deal of IT work, too

• name_NULL111653@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d : contraction I + had, past participle active. Indicative of something having been done by the subject (in first person) in the past.

  "I did something I had never done (before / in the past).

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Before” is not implied.

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    • TheTetrapod@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nope.

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    • name_NULL111653@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Take an English class, I’m sure YouTube has a good video explaining it (basically there are different “degrees” of past tense, did / had done etc.)

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s still not implicit just because you inferred it.

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• BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Must be a government contract

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  • xpinchx@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I did do this for web dev for a government contract. I got brought on for mobile optimizations but ended up doing full UI/UX design and marketing copy with no experience. All through their shitty in house WYSIWYG. $60/hr for a full year lol.

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  • shiroininja@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nah, business.

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• Steve@startrek.website ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Assume they meant “previously”

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If they meant it, they’d have written it.

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• aard@kyu.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In IT contracting (at least the fields I’m around) it’s quite common that “being able to acquire new skills quickly” is one of the skills you get paid for, and the time needed for you to do that is accounted for in the project planning.

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