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submitted 3 months ago by TheLameSauce@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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 66 points 3 months ago

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

[-] save_the_humans@leminal.space 8 points 3 months ago

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

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] ZarkleFarkle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 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.

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[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 27 points 3 months ago

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

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 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 3 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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

RN = Refreshments and Narcotics

[-] LordGimp@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Are you me?

[-] RacerX@lemm.ee 22 points 3 months ago

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

[-] rustyfish@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I feel you. Moxfield is my greatest enemy.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 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 16 points 3 months ago

Professional slanderer of programming languages.

I've spent more time than I care to admit

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[-] MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee 15 points 3 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 3 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 3 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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[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Professional Cat Petter! ๐Ÿ˜ป

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Professional YouTube Watcher or Professional Hobbyist Language Learner.

[-] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago

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

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

I'm a professional social media browser.

I think I'd actually kill myself.

[-] 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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[-] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 7 points 3 months ago

Professional sleeper.

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

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 3 months ago

professional internet browserist. there are 16 hours between sleeping and multitasking.

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

Linux admin ๐Ÿ˜Œ

[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 6 points 3 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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[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] Engineer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 months ago

Power point archivist and people tracker downer!

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago
[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] 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.

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Being a tech savvy person in a science field is a one way trip to becoming sysadmin accidentally.

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

Current Job title: programmer

Effective job title: Sysadmin.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Human Lemming

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

VR game level designer. Neat!

[-] TheBigBrother@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago
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[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sysadmin cosplayer or Barista.

[-] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

Is this specifically things we do during work hours more than our actual job? Or what we choose to do with our free time?

Cause if it's slacking off at work, sadly, I am probably now a professional Solitaire player. If it's in my free time... Well, my ADHD keeps me hopping from activity to activity so often let's just call it "Special Projects Manager"...

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 points 3 months ago

Without looking too far my prediction is to see 2 varations of replies mostly:

1.) I do something completely unrelated and enjoyable because my job is chill, or I'm good at it, and so on...

2.) I actually do my boss's job and maybe even their bosses' jobs,, because I actually do the work that gets done, but am still paid at peon-level.

[-] deranger@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Professional flight simulator pilot. I can fly a Boeing 737, 747, 777, 787, Airbus A300, A310, A320, McDonnell Douglas MD-11, and BAe 146, as long as there are no system failures and I can access my Navigraph charts.

Time compression would be great for those long haul flights as well. NYC to Tokyo in a few hours at 4x time would be sweet.

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