<story><title>Ask HN: What is your job? Do you like it? What was your favorite job?</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>davisr</author><text>I currently work at an ad agency (we call ourselves a &amp;quot;boutique data-driven marketing company&amp;quot;) in Milwaukee. My official title is Developer, but I do a lot of things: I manage servers, code applications (HTML&amp;#x2F;CSS&amp;#x2F;Javascript, but also C, R, and loads of shell scripting), research new concepts, automate existing workflows, and so much more.&lt;p&gt;Before I did this, I worked as a freelancer doing one-off website jobs for small businesses. Finding clients was easy, but I started dreading the same work everyday. I&amp;#x27;m much happier doing what I do now, but in a while I want to start a non-profit with some co-worker friends.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d want that non-profit to be education-related. Education is a really important space to improve, but adding &amp;quot;technology&amp;quot; to an already-bloated space is useless. I feel too many organizations try to add tech for tech&amp;#x27;s sake, when it&amp;#x27;s already impossible to get a class into a computer lab and make effective use of that time. Educational software needs to be thought of differently. Another crap webapp that tests students is a detriment to every student that has to suffer through it. Educational software needs to allow students to explore nature and the world around them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benbreen</author><text>Just wanted to say that I totally agree with your third paragraph and (as an educator) have a suggestion - the current grade management tools like Canvas feel like they&amp;#x27;re about 10-15 years old. Making a better one that&amp;#x27;s open source would not only cut down on the ballooning administrative costs that are contributing to the problems with education right now, but could also contribute to making classes more hands on (by allowing the teacher to branch out beyond tests into more creative forms of assessment).</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: What is your job? Do you like it? What was your favorite job?</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>davisr</author><text>I currently work at an ad agency (we call ourselves a &amp;quot;boutique data-driven marketing company&amp;quot;) in Milwaukee. My official title is Developer, but I do a lot of things: I manage servers, code applications (HTML&amp;#x2F;CSS&amp;#x2F;Javascript, but also C, R, and loads of shell scripting), research new concepts, automate existing workflows, and so much more.&lt;p&gt;Before I did this, I worked as a freelancer doing one-off website jobs for small businesses. Finding clients was easy, but I started dreading the same work everyday. I&amp;#x27;m much happier doing what I do now, but in a while I want to start a non-profit with some co-worker friends.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d want that non-profit to be education-related. Education is a really important space to improve, but adding &amp;quot;technology&amp;quot; to an already-bloated space is useless. I feel too many organizations try to add tech for tech&amp;#x27;s sake, when it&amp;#x27;s already impossible to get a class into a computer lab and make effective use of that time. Educational software needs to be thought of differently. Another crap webapp that tests students is a detriment to every student that has to suffer through it. Educational software needs to allow students to explore nature and the world around them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>germinalphrase</author><text>I teach in k12 in the Madison area. If you&amp;#x27;re developing concepts and want &amp;#x27;end-user&amp;#x27; feedback I would enjoy taking part.</text></comment>