Comment on A good deal of IT work, too

shiroininja@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You never did it, but still made money for claiming that you had?

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  • name_NULL111653@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d : contraction I + had, past participle active. Indicative of something having been done by the subject (in first person) in the past.

    "I did something I had never done (before / in the past).

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Before” is not implied.

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      • TheTetrapod@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It is

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      • name_NULL111653@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Take an English class, I’m sure YouTube has a good video explaining it (basically there are different “degrees” of past tense, did / had done etc.)

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  • Steve@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Assume they meant “previously”

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If they meant it, they’d have written it.

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  • BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Must be a government contract

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    • xpinchx@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I did do this for web dev for a government contract. I got brought on for mobile optimizations but ended up doing full UI/UX design and marketing copy with no experience. All through their shitty in house WYSIWYG. $60/hr for a full year lol.

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    • shiroininja@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nah, business.

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  • aard@kyu.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In IT contracting (at least the fields I’m around) it’s quite common that “being able to acquire new skills quickly” is one of the skills you get paid for, and the time needed for you to do that is accounted for in the project planning.

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