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Re:Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the leas... by gaws on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @10:20AM (#26725338)
> My job allows me to go back stage at Glastonbury and track-side visits at the Olympics, front seat views of royal weddings, orchestral pit on last night of the proms, and I have a fairly sedantry job of mostly pushing buttons.

Cool.... so what do you do?

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Re:Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the leas... by iso1631 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:12PM (#26729604)
Mostly broadcast contribution and networking. Take the London Marathon in October, nice simple job given it's covid with 6 outgoing video circuits to national and international - some via satellite, some via dual-fibre - 4 incoming circuits, about 16 bidirectional audio channels, wifi across the compound.

Most of it is sitting at home making sure everything runs fine -- today I was looking into a supposedly resilient SRT connection that's dropping every few days - incoming packets from two different suppliers stop at the same millisecond, but the far end (not mine) insist they are coming from two different devices (which I can't believe)

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Re:Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the leas... by toomuchredbull on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @12:45PM (#26727450)
Sounds like some sort of audio tech?
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