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@oblomov Oh no. How terrible. What a ghastly imposition.

My first professional project was a patient database for my father, written in BASIC on an Amstrad 1512 with dual floppy disks and no hard drive.I didn't really know what I was doing, but it was the first electronic database & analysis program in the hospital - his previous "database" was a big paper ledger book. My sister also earned some money by typing the data from that ledger into the database.The hospital later made a proper database for a squillion dollars, but we defined the spec!

@TomF i think almost half of our engineering team is on mastodon

I do have some options, and a fair bit of time, and I should see what's out there. I would prefer to work on something fun and graphics-related with some good people, rather than going for high salary or managing folks. So if you have a role like that you think I'd enjoy, give me a ping.

@TomF WONXP