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   Vasilis (vasilis@social.vasilis.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 21:16:46 JST Vasilis

   This week I'm going to give a presentation at my kid’s high school about my job. The idea is to inspire them so that they might choose a career similar to what I do. Let’s say my job is "making things with web technology."
   Now my question to you is: why are you (still) excited about making stuff with web technology? (RT is appreciated)

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     Brendan Jones (brendanjones@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 21:16:33 JST Brendan Jones

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     @vasilis I know one thing I was never taught at school about careers is the sheer variety of roles there are in companies.

     For example, you could sketch out the variety of roles it takes to run a SaaS company: front end dev, back end dev, devops, QA, PO/PM, UI, UX, scrum master. Maybe data science/machine learning. Account managers/customer service/sales, marketers, data/business analysts, legal, finance, ... I'm sure there's more.

     I know 16 yr old me would have found that useful.

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     Brendan Jones (brendanjones@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 21:21:24 JST Brendan Jones

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     @vasilis I realise that's not what you asked, but I hope it's helpful.

     To actually answer the question, I'd say one topic that's really cool is all the GIS stuff we do these days. Make sure to give real-world examples, e.g. companies that take satellite imagery to optimise ... farming, forestry, maintenance of key infra (like roads, railways, power infra, etc), to spot deforestation or other land change, to optimise urban planning, etc. I think it's a very visual example of tech being useful.