Work: What I do

For the past 20 or so years I’ve worked in or around the Cable TV industry. Right now I work for a company that makes equipment cable companies use. I enjoy it, mostly because I’m social, and my job is *typically* 100% travel, and meeting new people. That said, right now it’s 100% work from home, which is OK too. The project I’m working on now is causing me to learn new skills, which is great. I always enjoy that, or nearly always, like many people, I can get stuck in my ways for too long.

I get to play in Linux a lot, which is fun, I think because I’m old. I remember when green screens were the ONLY solution!!! I work a lot with embedded solutions that run Linux, it’s inspiring to see where the O/S has ended up.

I’m lucky, I’ve stumbled through great job after great job. I don’t quite know how, but I have. I dropped out of actuarial school, and took a job fixing PCs, which led to a job at a DARPA Artificial Intelligence shop as a sysadmin/networking person in the mid 1980s. That led to corporate networking gigs in the late 80s and through the 1990s, and on from there through Sun Microsystems, the cable world, Microsoft, carriers, etc.