I’m a sound engineer, have been for 25 years or so. It’s a field that was traditionally the home of VB swilling, winnie-red smoking, greasy-haired stereotypes. For real. In the warehouse of a production company I worked at as a younger lad, this was written on the wall: “Roadie’s mantra - if it bleeds, fuck it. If it doesn’t bleed, chuck it in the truck.”

But these days it’s a high-tech field comprising a stimulating and complex mix of networking, clever design, 3D modelling, problem-solving, art, music of course, and very little in the way of fistfights and drug overdoses.

I mainly worked with original bands throughout my career, and I’m not a fan of gross commercialisation. The federated social media space feels a little bit like how the internet used to be when I was little. When USEnet was a big thing for social interaction and not so much for warez.

How about you?

  • lnm225@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Medicine.

    Once upon a long time ago (pre- and during schooling) had a web resale site. Think webrings and tags in the code to tweak the DMOZ results for Google Era. Never made the jump from writing my own code w Arachnophobia to the thousands of new ways do so.

    Rexxitor who came to reddit from 4chan.

    Disgusted by the blatant money grab and poor conduct by Reddit. Fuck /u/spez.