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  • Volkditty@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Got IT training during my time in the military that ended up opening the door to a network engineer position with a defense contractor after I got out.

    I was a pretty poor engineer, but I was good at explaining technical details to non-technical people. The bosses liked this because they wanted constant updates on what was happening, the other engineers liked this because they didn’t want the bosses to bother them, and I liked it because going to sit in briefings got me out of doing real work, so I ended up in management.