You don’t know anything (yet), there’s still so much to learn after university – that’s just about getting a framework. There’s so much expertise in industry that isn’t in your textbooks!
My role is to develop software for Saab’s naval combat management system which is the command and control center of many advanced surface vessels and submarines.
It is very satisfying to be able to come up with a creative solution to the technical challenges we have at work and to see the results we create being implemented in real deployable software.
I work in the Maritime Department which means that the day-to-day code I write might eventually end up on one of the ships in the Royal Australian Navy. How cool is that!