JungleX3: lets be real what isnt

justmata: exactly

JungleX3: i was driving outta state and saw gas prices that were over $4

justmata: just glad I have a great career doing exactly what I wanted to do as a teen.

justmata: and its almost $5 here for gas

justmata: ugh

JungleX3: soon you wont be able to drive to work with how everything is lookin

JungleX3: ayo? whatcha do if you dont mind me asking

JungleX3: $5 is crazy

justmata: I'm a network engineer, for a local government. working on a public safety radio network for police and fire department. I'm a team of 1, so I am crazy busy during the day

JungleX3: O: thats amazing!!!

JungleX3: i wanted to be in the same field but i went to school and got screwd with debt

justmata: so when a cop or firefighter pushes the button on their "walkie talkie" I make the behind-the-scenes network possible

JungleX3: so do you work more in comp sci or telecom?

justmata: I went to school at 18, and realized I knew more than what they were teaching and dropped out. I recently went back to school to get my AAS in cyber sec only cause no one in the fam had a degree

JungleX3: ik you can listen in to those frequencies with a HAM radio, mainly bc ive done it with mine, but i never really thought about it as a network engineer but i guess it would be

JungleX3: i went for cyber sec too!!

justmata: to answer telco or comp sci, I am in the middle. I worked telco for years but focused comp sci

JungleX3: i didnt graduate tho sadly i ran out of funs and couldnt continue schooling

JungleX3: funds*

justmata: IMO schooling is a money grab. you can literally learn it all online, or with a company that is willing to train

justmata: I left high school with a Cisco certification, but worked telco for 12+ years after that, which barely touched cisco stuff. But I learned Juniper JunOS on my own, and that's what I do now.

justmata: i run an MPLS network built on Juniper equipment I built myself

JungleX3: see i went to a trade school in highschool for electrical engineering, electronics and telecommunication, and i loved it!

justmata: it's a great career path tbh

JungleX3: yeah but nobody wants to put there neck out for someone with certs at a young age around where i live. like im young and easy trainable, all i need is field work and i work circles around the older guys.

justmata: i was grateful that I worked on old school radios that were new in the 70's, during my 20's. and working on various old school telco tech

JungleX3: thats not me saying that they arent good or that im better, bc i know im not

Jaque10: I see, that's crazy xD

Jaque10: you have like one out of 5 green lines on tab

Jaque10: or had

Polski_Szlachcic: i need to get richer bro

Jaque10: why?

Polski_Szlachcic: donate later

Polski_Szlachcic: i can donate to ppl

Jaque10: for what?

Polski_Szlachcic: for example making events more compepetive by adding more to the price pool

Polski_Szlachcic: umm..

Polski_Szlachcic: cya

Jaque10: cya