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Any non-tech-background self-hosters?
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Former USAF JAG here (lawyer). I was always a tech geek, undergrad major was in MIS actually, but I didn't enjoy coding. Always ran Plex on the side, built my own computers, etc. Grew up with my Dad using Linux everywhere (I found this annoying as I just wanted to play games on Windows).
I didn't enjoy law (surprise!). I was disillusioned with the criminal justice system too. Quit the law in 2020. Then suddenly had quality time by global happenstance to rethink my life path.
I work in IT now. Restarted at the bottom of a new career but I'm in deep nerd territory now - Proxmox servers, Home Assistant, networks with VLANs, OPNsense router, 22U server rack, Linux as my daily driver, etc.
Much happier now.
As someone who majored in CS and is now in a software engineering position, the people in tech who come from a completely different field are always my favorite. On top of just proving people wrong about the "right" way to get into the field, they've been around, they know how to think about problems from other perspectives, and they're usually better at working with other people.
Honestly, I think more people should minor in CS, or if they did their undergrad in CS, they should have to do their grad work in something else. The ability to compute things is only useful if you're well versed in a problem worth computing an answer to, most of which lie outside of CS.
I'm currently doing comp sci but have always debated doing comp eng or ee. However, I don't want to do comp eng or ee as a career, just more as a side hobby. So I'm sticking with comp sci and I'll do all the comp eng and ee stuff at home.