The shady company that tried to interview me for a data entry job when I applied as a software developer called me. They left a message asking if I was still interested in a help desk position. Like nope and I never was. Been working at my current job as a software engineer for over a month. Try finding people who actually want the jobs you're offering!

I did 'technical support' for like 20+ years.

Never mind you that it was technical support for high end router / datacenter switching shit...

I get SO MUCH spam for basic help desk level shit. Right there on the offer they offer garbage pay... oh yeah and overnight hours ... often contractor level status so on.

Like guies ... NO.

@AtuM

So when I left that field ... most everything I worked with was 'hardware' and 'software defined' was a very ethereal type thing.

You could do software defined stuff, but it was a buggy mess and you probably could do better with a bunch of terminal scripts ;)

That was a while ago, glad I'm out of it.

@AtuM

Depends on what you mean then. Software defined networking vaguely last I heard was about taking the network logic and managing or deploying it ... form some other system, your PC or whatever.

Otherwise... I mean I talked with the ASIC engineers at times.

@AtuM

I suppose at some point there was some sort of hardware layer 3 stuff-ish, depending on how you look at it.

But speed and such really (when I was back there) was really about how much memory / what kind you had available and etc.

Once you hit L3 things always start to slow as the complexity gets really high.

Our data center high performance stuff was all layer 2 and the programming was kept as much on the custom ASICS they built. That could handle some serious speed, but even then took testing and thought.

Once you added layer 3 things would inevitably go wild and slow down if the network had any complexity. That's just the nature of layer 3 protocols IMO. They just weren't made for speed / always complicate things.

Even at L2... our custom ASICs often handled data within that very chip and avoided handing anything off to L2... if at all possible.

I spoke with some Google guys one time who bought our product for a while, I think purely for R&D purposes.

They were all about "fuck these old protocols" with their questions and such.

Good guys though, fun to talk to the couple times I did.

Data entry is one of the few jobs, everybody could do and nobody wants to do...
Pretty boring and the only people applying are doing so exclusively for the money. So you would actually need to have the data entered multiple times by different people and then diff it to find the typos...