Outside of a career in IT, I would have loved to be a crime investigator. Have always liked TV shows and movies that focus on crime investigations, but I quite remember how hard I searched to get the CSI PC game. Good times!!
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I can already imagine you, side by side, with Davis root cause analysis, investigating both on the crime scene 
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Exciting topic, I could envision myself being a sports coach or event manager. Would love if any of these were my workplace in an alternate reality.
One that have always fascinated me is being a musician, but i am not really good with it 
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If I weren’t doing what I do now, I probably wouldn’t even be in IT, I honestly can’t imagine doing anything else. All the decisions I’ve made in IT have led me here, and I feel good where I am.
And if I wasn’t working in IT, I would most likely be a carpenter. When I was choosing my further studies, I was deciding between IT and carpentry. But since the school canceled that program, the decision was basically made for me.
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Engineering and technology were always my focus, so I would most likely be an electronics engineer or maybe a motorcycle or car mechanic.
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Nice! We could work together on a car :laughing:
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In college I got dual degrees just in case one route never panned out. Ultimately I went with Tech and found Dynatrace as a platform that I sought to master. But if Tech didn’t pan out, I also had a degree in Criminal Justice. Ironically I had to pick between going into Policing vs IT. My now Wife, then Girlfriend, talked me into taking the tech job, which is where I started with Dynatrace. Had I not taken IT, who know where I would have been, from Cybercrime investigations, to Corrections to State Police… Ultimately I wouldn’t change a single thing at this point. I’ve meet some amazing people on my IT journey which I’m sure I’d have never met being in Criminal Justice.
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At 17 I had the random idea to become an Air Traffic Controller; I think that would work well with the monitoring/observability direction I also chose to take in the end 
Or start my own kombucha and beer brewery (not that I have the skills but it would be so cool to learn) 
And if it wasn’t for IT after university, I would now be a policy advisor. Who knows, maybe at some point there will be an opportunity to combine the IT/politics/economics skills.
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Investigative journalism would have been interesting. Or data forensics for law enforcement. Pretty adjacent in a way. :man_technologist:
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New here (it’s Day 1 @ Dynatrace). Teaching myself to vibe code and love it. Have built a few apps already. If anyone wants to try something fun (and sometimes hard!), check out dubtrivia.com Is my first public facing app and so far, getting a really good response.
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Really have no idea since I have always loved computers/IT.
I did love math in high school so probably something like:
Mathematician
Statistician
Actuary
Data Scientist
Engineer - majored in computer engineering
Math teacher/professor
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I loved your app, for real! And I just discovered the worst game of all time hahaha
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Oh awesome!! If you create an account it will connect us and then we can “compete” and it will track your streaks, etc… 5 new questions daily :). Thank you for trying it out, it’s been really fun to build.
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Cool! My username is @the_ghost, it’s a reference to the Ghost from Call Of Duty!
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Didnt pick up your score from today but if you are logged in and play tomorrow it will capture it. My username is @josh and it should auto-connect us. Enjoy the game! I pre-load 30 days worth of questions so I mostly dont remember the answers -- gives me the chance to play like everyone else.
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So nice! Didn’t do any good in the results, only got one right :rofl:
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If I had not moved into the world of Tech, I would probably still be a mechanic. I still wrench on my own stuff/friends on the weekends tho, as I it’s still a passion of mine.
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I would be out prospecting every day in the golden triangle.
me, the detector and the native killers in the Aussie bush
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If I weren’t in IT, I’d be chasing two dreams: professional football player or racing driver.
Let’s be honest — every time I get behind the wheel of a go-kart, I leave everyone eating my dust, so the talent is clearly there! On the road though? That’s a different story… deep breaths every time I drive. Maybe that’s just saving the competitive edge for the track!
Football would’ve been the other path — there’s nothing like the beautiful game. But hey, who says these dreams have an expiration date?
For now, I’ll stick to making Dynatrace dashboards go fast instead of cars.
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