Post #2279627

2025-11-29 21:11 UTC

People assume my partner &quot;does computers&quot; for a job because I do. He has a job title that is confusing and not very revealing but I tell people that he mostly &quot;does spreadsheets.&quot; This nice profile of him from the student newspaper (so I&#39;m not burying the lede: AT HARVARD) is a great way to get to know a few neat things about him. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/27/james-poolner-profile/

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@bookandswordblog@scholar.social 2025-11-29 22:07

@jessamyn@glammr.us the whole higher ed sector is being demolished in Canada so that includes the admin jobs. Minimum-wage jobs with a lot of free time to read vanished from Canada a while ago too (as did skilled jobs in the same space like movie projectionist).

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@hwll@sunny.garden 2025-11-29 21:23

@jessamyn@glammr.us hmm the beard says Unix but the hoodie says Gnome. I guess I'll just have to read the feature

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@Devils_Rancher@beige.party 2025-11-29 21:43

@jessamyn@glammr.us Nice! The bit about the guitar is kinda hilarious.

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@twodimes@writing.exchange 2025-11-29 21:55

@jessamyn@glammr.us I didn't make it through the first paragraph yet, but I'm also a bifurcated James/Jamie for work reasons ;)

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@natematias@social.coop 2025-11-29 23:36

@jessamyn@glammr.us this is wonderful <3

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@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com 2025-11-30 00:10

@jessamyn@glammr.us Oh my gosh, what a lovely profile. Congratulations to him!

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@platypus@glammr.us 2025-11-30 01:19

@jessamyn@glammr.us I appreciate that while my person has a comp sci bachelor's and can therefore understand my rants, he's mostly not a computers person and mostly a "teaching kids to think about how they think" person. I also think your person and my person might get along if they ever met.

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