From 02c653c4628ca5ff8dcfec2f4d19920154dceb25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: MM-BCY <86788030+MM-BCY@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 09:47:04 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?=E7=BF=BB=E8=AF=91=E5=AE=8C=E6=88=90?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- .../20210508 My weird jobs before tech.md | 47 ------------------- .../20210508 My weird jobs before tech.md | 36 ++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 sources/talk/20210508 My weird jobs before tech.md create mode 100644 translated/talk/20210508 My weird jobs before tech.md diff --git a/sources/talk/20210508 My weird jobs before tech.md b/sources/talk/20210508 My weird jobs before tech.md deleted file mode 100644 index a878cfed51..0000000000 --- a/sources/talk/20210508 My weird jobs before tech.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,47 +0,0 @@ -[#]: subject: (My weird jobs before tech) -[#]: via: (https://opensource.com/article/21/5/weird-jobs-tech) -[#]: author: (Chris Hermansen https://opensource.com/users/clhermansen) -[#]: collector: (lujun9972) -[#]: translator: (MM-BCY) -[#]: reviewer: ( ) -[#]: publisher: ( ) -[#]: url: ( ) - -My weird jobs before tech -====== -You never know where you will travel from your first job. -![Yellow plane flying in the air, Beechcraft D17S][1] - -I had a few weird jobs before I hit tech. - -I was a junior assistant in an aircraft repair shop, which meant tasks like cleaning dirty metal parts in solvent (wow, things were different back in the '70s). My most fun task there was ironing Dacron aircraft fabric onto the wooden ailerons and horizontal stabilizer on a beautiful old Beechcraft Staggerwing that was in the shop for a rebuild. - -One summer during university, I worked at the same airport on the team that mixed the fire retardant and pumped it into the fire suppression aircraft ("[water bombers][2]"). That was probably the dirtiest job I ever had, but loading the aircraft was pretty cool. There was a small flap about two meters off the ground that you would stick your finger into after attaching the filling hose to the coupling. Then the person on the pump would start the pump. When you felt your finger get wet, you waved for the pump master to stop the pump. Meanwhile, the incredibly noisy right-side radial engine was running a few meters in front of you, with the propellers doing a great job of blowing off all the red dust that accumulated on you from mixing the retardant in the first place. If you screwed up and let the airplane get too full, they would have to taxi over to a patch of ground and dump the load right there, since they would be too heavy to take off otherwise. - -Two other summers, I worked for the local Pepsi, 7-Up, and Orange Crush distributor delivering crates of soft drinks to stores and restaurants. That was definitely the most physically demanding job I ever had. Think of a five-high stack of wooden crates with each containing a dozen 750ml glass bottles of soft drinks on a hand truck. Think of pulling that up to a second-floor restaurant. Think of that restaurant getting 120 crates per week... 24 trips up those stairs and back down again with all the empties. A small truck would typically have 300 or so crates of soft drinks on board. We were paid by the load, not by the hour, so the goal was to get done early and hit the beach. - -### My tech jobs - -Delivering sodas was my last summer job during university. I graduated the next year with a degree in mathematics and a lot of computer courses, especially numerical analysis, under my belt. My first job in tech was working for a small computer services consultant. I used SPSS to do a bunch of analysis on some sport fishing surveys, wrote a few hundred lines of PL/1 to print concert tickets on the IBM 3800 laser printer in the service bureau where we rented time, and started working on some programs to analyze forest statistics. I eventually went to work for the client needing forestry statistics, becoming a partner in the mid-1980s. By then we were doing a lot more than measuring trees and no longer using a timesharing bureau to do our computations. We bought a Unix minicomputer, which we upgraded in the late 1980s to a network of Sun workstations. - -I spent some time working on a big development project headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Then we bought our first geographic information system, and I spent most of my time in the late 1980s and 1990s working with our customers who needed to customize that software to meet their business needs. By the early 2000s, my three older partners were getting ready to retire, and I was trying to understand how I fit into the long-term picture of our no-longer-small company of 200 or so employees. Our new employee-owners couldn't really figure that one out either, and in 2002, I found myself in Chile, looking to see if the Chile-Canada Free Trade Agreement provided a reasonable opportunity to move some of our business to Latin America. - -That business started off formally in 2004. The Canadian parent, meanwhile, was badly sideswiped by a combination of some investments that, in the light of the 2007–2009 economic meltdown, no longer seemed so wise, and it was forced to close its doors in 2011. However, by that time, the Chilean subsidiary was a going concern, so our original employee and I became partners and purchased it from the asset sale. It's still going today, doing a lot of cool stuff in the social-environmental space, and I'm often a part of that, especially when my trusty mathematics and computational background are useful. - -As a side hustle, I develop and support a horse racing information system for a wonderful man who has made a career out of buying and selling racehorses in India. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -via: https://opensource.com/article/21/5/weird-jobs-tech - -作者：[Chris Hermansen][a] -选题：[lujun9972][b] -译者：[MM-BCY](https://github.com/译者ID) -校对：[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID) - -本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译，[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出 - -[a]: https://opensource.com/users/clhermansen -[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972 -[1]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/styles/image-full-size/public/lead-images/yellow_plane_fly_air.jpg?itok=pEcrCVJT (Yellow plane flying in the air, Beechcraft D17S) -[2]: https://worldairphotography.wordpress.com/2016/08/22/air-tanker-history-in-canada-part-one/amp/ diff --git a/translated/talk/20210508 My weird jobs before tech.md b/translated/talk/20210508 My weird jobs before tech.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..452d0c400a --- /dev/null +++ b/translated/talk/20210508 My weird jobs before tech.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +[#]: subject: (My weird jobs before tech) +[#]: via: (https://opensource.com/article/21/5/weird-jobs-tech) +[#]: author: (Chris Hermansen https://opensource.com/users/clhermansen) +[#]: collector: (lujun9972) +[#]: translator: (MM-BCY) +[#]: reviewer: ( ) +[#]: publisher: ( ) +[#]: url: ( ) + +我在科技行业之前的奇怪工作 +====== +你永远不会知道从你的第一份工作到现在你会去哪里。！ +在我加入技术部之前，我做过一些奇怪的工作。 +我是一家飞机修理店的初级助理，这意味着我的任务就像是清洗溶剂中的脏金属零件这样(哇，70年代的情况可不一样了)。我在那里最有趣的任务是在一架正在修理中的漂亮的老式比奇飞机倾斜机翼的木制副翼和水平稳定器上熨烫涤纶飞机的布料。 +在大学期间的一个夏天，，我在同一个机场的一个团队工作，混合了阻燃剂，然后把它注入灭火飞机(“[水弹][2]”)。那可能是我做过的最脏的工作了，但是给飞机装货还是挺酷的。有一个小皮瓣约两米离地面，你可以把你的手指插入后，连接灌装软管的耦合。然后泵上的人启动泵。当你觉得你的手指湿了，你挥手让泵主停止泵。与此同时，在你前方几米处，右侧的辐射状引擎噪音极大，螺旋桨吹掉了你身上因混合阻燃剂而积聚的红色粉尘。如果你搞砸了，让飞机装得太满，他们就得滑到一块地方，把货卸在那里，因为它们太重了，以至于无法在其他地方起飞。 +另外两个夏天，我在当地的百事可乐，七喜，橙色粉碎经销商那里工作，给商店和餐馆送一箱箱的软饮料。这绝对是我做过的体力要求最高的工作。想象一下一个五层高的木箱，每个木箱里装着一打750毫升的软饮料玻璃瓶，放在一辆手推车上。想象一下把它搬到二楼的餐厅，想象那家餐厅每周能拿到120箱... 24次爬楼梯，然后又带着空瓶子下来。一辆小卡车上通常会有300箱左右的软饮料。我们的工资是按负荷计算的，不是按小时计算的，所以我们的目标是早点完工，然后去海滩。 +我的技术工作 +送苏打水是我大学期间最后一份暑期工作。第二年我毕业了，获得了数学学位，还修了很多计算机课程，尤其是数值分析。我在技术部的第一份工作，是为一家小型电脑服务顾问公司工作。我用 社会科学统计套装软件 对一些钓鱼调查做了一些分析，写了几百行程序设计语言在我们按时间租来的服务局的 ibm 3800激光打印机上打印演唱会门票，并开始研究一些程序来分析森林统计。我最终为需要林业统计的客户工作，在20世纪80年代中期成为合伙人。那时我们已经不仅仅是测量树木，也不再使用分时局来进行计算了。我们买了一台 unix 小型计算机，我们在80年代后期升级到 sun 工作站网络 +我花了一些时间研究一个大型开发项目，总部设在马来西亚吉隆坡。然后我们买了第一个地理信息系统，在80年代末和90年代，我花了大部分时间和我们的客户一起工作，他们需要定制软件来满足他们的业务需求。到了21世纪初，我的三个老合伙人都准备退休了，我试图弄明白，我是如何融入我们这个不再是小公司的，大约200名员工的长期图景的。我们的新员工老板也不明白这一点，2002年，我来到智利，想看看智利-加拿大自由贸易协定，是否提供了一个合理的机会，把我们的部分业务转移到拉丁美洲。 +2004年正式成立。与此同时，这家加拿大母公司受到了一系列投资的严重影响，鉴于2007-2009年的经济衰退，这些投资似乎不再那么明智，它在2011年被迫关门。然而，那时候，智利子公司还在经营，所以我们原来的雇员和我成了合伙人，通过资产出售买下了它。直到今天，它仍在运行，在社会环境领域做了很多很酷的事情，我经常成为其中的一部分，特别是当我可靠的数学和计算背景非常有用的时候。 +作为一个副业，我为一个在印度买卖赛马的出色男人，开发和支持一个赛马信息系统。 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +via: https://opensource.com/article/21/5/weird-jobs-tech + +作者：[Chris Hermansen][a] +选题：[lujun9972][b] +译者：[MM-BCY](https://github.com/MM-BCY) +校对：[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID) + +本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译，[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出 + +[a]: https://opensource.com/users/clhermansen +[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972 +[1]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/styles/image-full-size/public/lead-images/yellow_plane_fly_air.jpg?itok=pEcrCVJT (Yellow plane flying in the air, Beechcraft D17S) +[2]: https://worldairphotography.wordpress.com/2016/08/22/air-tanker-history-in-canada-part-one/amp/