Engineering was on and off (aerospace) so I got into IT, running the Sun network at Berkeley Physics (a blast) but of course, money got tight, so I wandered off into finance (working in San Francisco "before" was another blast) and then to Sun Microsystems and then a nutball startup and later some consulting. A real mixed bag, usually the one person with all the responsibility and no budget.
I ran Sun and Macs at Berkeley, and those were my mainstays. Picked up on linux with the mac G3 laptop (Yellow Dog ran on it) and finally got into PC hardware, linux only. Windows at gunpoint for the startup though I ran the "real" computers there, a Sun rack for corporate services and developers.
I run a ton of Firefox extensions. The most fun is one or two or three Captcha solvers. When they work, fun to watch.
A small bit of programming, mostly scripting in various languages.
A Hypercard fanatic, I wrote scientific applications, complete with graphing and EPS output for Tech Pubs for bosses at the Big L. Have not revisited that though there are very capable clones out there and I have a MacOS9 emulator running with Hypercard inside. Just low priority right now. Hypercard preceded the internet with its linking mechanisms (and message passing) and if Steve had let it live and go cross-platform (he vetoed both) the internet would be a different place. It WAS Vibe Coding way back then, and with an instant GUI and built-in persistent database.
I was doing DTP on Atari's and Macs, while kicking out lab reports with grap, pic and troff for work.
Just missed a job at a small company that soon thereafter was acquired by Google. I look back at that miss as fortunate. I had many interviews at Apple and failed the age test.
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