My career history through software

A big part of what I enjoy about all my previous jobs is that I get to become familiar with a whole lot of big and small software packages that enable me to do my work. This is a brief history of what I've used, after my landscaping and farm-hand days, when I started work that involved a computer. A lot of these are quite hefty tools, and I always used just a fragment of their capabilities. It was both fun and frustrating at times. I certainly don't miss the spinning wheel in ArcGIS Pro. The most enjoyment I got was working at the fringes with custom scripts that integrate with the tools, or data migrations from on software to another where you really get to know the underlying architecture, and the data itself. Screenshots are from their official websites, otherwise mentioned at the end. 2009 -> 2019 - Spatial Information Officer -> Spatial Technician -> Technical Surveyor Maps and surveying! I loved this stuff. The perfect blend of indoors and outdoors, technical and physical, land…