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Same for me with the burping. I don't even know how to force one. Instead I just feel bloated and miserable for an hour or two, so it's an incentive to not eat much or drink anything carbonated.
My company expects SRE to be synonymous with cloud administrator, acting as the gateway to doing anything AWS-related.
They've also asked us to troubleshoot for database backup processes, write Crystal Reports on user activity, and be Slack admins. Some of the developers believe that we do manual production deployments of their builds (we don't). I get requests all the time from users asking if I can make accounts on various systems for them.
I was given a programming test for this job :(
My university's fine arts college has a Creative Computation program. There's a lot of programming involved to create the art installations that they make.
https://www.smu.edu/Meadows/AreasofStudy/CreativeComputation
100% agree on "where did my in-person interactions go" but for a different reason. Almost all of my peer group (working professionals) did the program remotely. Instead, the on-campus student body was mostly teenage undergraduates and international students with no work experience.
Also agree on "where did my money go". I've always assumed a huge amount of it went to administration and groundskeeping.