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David J Eddy
David J Eddy

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90% of my job is...

To many jobsdescriptions are over complicated just to sound fancy. Let's have a little fun here. Explain in the shortest and simplest way possible what 90% of your day to day job is. I'll start:

Directing people to read the documentation.

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buphmin

Looking at the requirements of a project, then looking at the code, then... (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

In all seriousness though its taking requirements and implementing them. Sometimes its in very old bad code, some ok code, and sometimes some really good code. The hard part is understanding the big picture when there are thousands of tables, separate systems that need to talk to each other and with almost none of it documented.

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Anna Simoroshka

THIS. Exactly my job real description.

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Ben Halpern

Fiddling...

I’m always fiddling with something. Code, design, copy, whatever. I’m a fiddler.

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Juan F Gonzalez

I'm assuming you use this site a lot then jsfiddle.net :'D

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Peter Ellis

Knowing and telling everyone what everyone else is doing.

Okay, I do a lot of translating between coder-speak and human too, and help everyone with everything, both coding-related and other stuff. Keeps everyone happy if they only have to concentrate on their own job. And happy means efficient.

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Phil Ashby

This, pretty much, plus a bit of talking about security stuff so we can all be equally paranoid, and have less 'bloody infosec'/'bloody idiots' in relationships!

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Elliot Derhay • Edited

#ParanoiaEquality

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Vincent Milum Jr

"How do I print?"

uuuhhhggggg, not again!?

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Elliot Derhay

I get called about the copier pretty frequently too, though mostly by the same person -- and usually when convenience is low.

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Vincent Milum Jr

One of my favorites is those that try to fax. They type in the phone number, put in the paper... But then never hit "start fax", and get confused when it doesn't work.

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Elliot Derhay

I can't say I've seen that where I work. So far, everyone I've worked with here at least knows there's an extra step to send.

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Gregor Gonzalez

I know that feel bro 👊

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Avery

Communicating: teaching, learning, planning, aligning, reporting etc. 80% out loud, 20% written. Notably, not a ton of documentation.

Even when I'm hands on keyboard writing code it's still paired programming.

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Ondrej

Honestly 90 % of my job is refactoring legacy code to the point in which it is usable & wondering if my client will pay me for it.

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David J Eddy

"fixing the prev. persons leftovers"

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Ondrej

This.

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Alexandru Bucur

Making things work, be it code, managing people, new hires, hardware issues and so on. There's no dull day from that point of view, there's always a 'fire' to extinguish somewhere.

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Reese Poirier

90% of my job is keeping the lights on.

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Michiel Hendriks

Avoiding meetings.

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Gabriel Magalhães dos Santos

In job test: make a funcionar to calculate Fibonacci and draw the LINE with canvas/react/graphql/gulp

In job day: padding-top: 30px;

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