I imagine working in a prison would be a very interesting, and sometimes nerve-wracking, experience. I'm curious, how long did it take until you were fully comfortable with the job and felt you were no longer learning new things at a rate sufficient to hold your interest? I'm in a tech support role with my current employer, which I've had for a bit more than a year, and for me it feels like the learning will never stop as the systems I look after are far too complicated for any one person to ever master.
What kinds of interactions did you have with the inmates, and can you share more about prison riots? That sounds a bit scary!
After working in IT for 10 years, in this kind of field the most learning was done on the hardware side as I have always been in desktop/software support. I now work for a company that develops a LOT of software and has everything in the cloud so yes, now I have a list of learning so much more than when I was at the prison.
Prison workings and inmate interactions was super amazing, and I do want to do some posts on it. I worked in close proximity, my office had about 12 inmates who worked near it, and a lot of the hardware I worked on was in prison yards/cells or areas. I can't go too much over the riot or incidents for obvious reasons but i'll try my best. :D
Thanks for reading.
I see. I've always been in software, never tried the hardware side of things. Whenever hardware breaks at work I get the joy of filling in long-winded support tickets for the infrastructure teams to handle though. xD Looking forward to more posts like this, quite interesting to read!