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What Do Soylents Do?

posted by LaminatorX on Monday March 17 2014, @02:29AM   
from the the-story-of-us dept.

buswolley writes:

"Soylents: Concentrated pools of experts, doers, thinkers.

I am a neuroscientist.

What do you do?"

• Posting AC to prevent correlation... Posting AC to prevent correlation... (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 17 2014, @01:58PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 17 2014, @01:58PM (#17727)

  When people invariably ask, "Who are you? What do you do?", I typically provide a first answer as "I love my wife and kids." I try to make that my first priority in life. I enjoy spending time with my wife. She's my best friend. I enjoy my kids, either playing with them or trying to teach them things.

  I like to play video games. But nowadays, so does everyone. But not Angry Birds...I like turn-based tactics and RPGs.

  I like to read. I like to play and watch sports. I like the ocean. I like science and learning.

  But people always want an employment answer. On that side, its hard for me to answer.

  Am I a software engineer? Sure, I write a lot of code. But seriously, who gives a shit? A lot of people can write code. The real value is, what does your code do? What problems does it solve?

  Am I a highly paid consultant? OK, then hate me on general principles.

  Am I an entrepreneur? A business owner/businessman? What does that even mean? An independent plumber is an entrepreneur (whom I have a lot of respect for...his/her job is probably more stable than mine.)

  My code does some really nifty analytics-type things. I've helped companies streamline their IT infrastructures and save a bunch of money. i.e. You can consolidate those switches. Your vCenters are underutilized. You don't need to upgrade all your servers to SSD....here are the ones that need it.

  So take whatever answer you want.

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• Re:Posting AC to prevent correlation... (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 18 2014, @11:33PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 18 2014, @11:33PM (#18385)

  I have always wanted to answer that question in a similar, non-job related way, but without sounding like an asshole. Let me know if you ever figure that last part out.

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