What do you do for a living?

[snipelfritz]

I work for a company that restores/mitigates damaged buildings (fires, flooding, etc). I monitor emergency scanners and send leads and potential contact information to our franchises.

It gets pretty boring some of the time (I'm working right now). Sometimes I work overnight which makes for plenty of simultneous YouTube watching.

I'm wanting to try Grant Writing or get back into nonprofit fundraising like I was trying to immediately out of college.

[goroth]

I used to work in libraries.
I'm a full-time parent now.
I'll probably go back to school in a couple of years. Maybe something computery? But maybe I'm too old for that?

No way! Computer knowledge has a super short shelf life. So as soon as you are done with your education your skillset should be in demand.

[JonnyAngle]

I make foam packaging. When you get a laptop, I make the caps that hold it in the box.

Also I etch pedals and stuff

[ThorZ]

I work as both a Computer forensic analyst investigating computers for crime etc and also as part of a development team for cyber security and forensic software.

Get to do some travel which is awesome but also mostly work from home which is even better !

BROTHER!

I'm a PhD candidate for Computer Criminology, I'm writing a thesis in conjunction with a criminal psychologist about online communities. (No, not you guys)

As for job, I've been a data analysts for a software company that specializes in combining things like census data, traffic data, ans school/business locations to determine how much money travels in a street and how old the people with said money are. Last semester I taught databases, but more qualified people than I stepped in and I was not renewed for more semesters. Right now I'm unemployed, but that'll hopefully change soon...i hope, it's disheartening how much "you're over qualified" refusals I've gotten.

Awesome stuff dude, I hope you get a job soon dude got a CV? I can see if there is anything going at my place we have a US office, although I've no idea if your suited but why not give it a try?

[OddKnowledge]

Essentially, I'm the assistant facilities manager for a large technology consulting firm. I spend my time putting out fires and trying to keep the office and the equipment in the office running as best as I can. I occasionally get to see some cool things, but I'm eventually looking to make a change because I feel like its all too easy. My creative brain is starving.

[christianatl]

Mostly just the band now, but I still do some film work.

Mostly art dept stuff on commercials in ATL, set dressing on TV and features in ATL, and scenic dept (as an industrial) in NYC and Philly.

[superslidetail]

Currently, IT role for a bank. We just got bought though so I'll most likely be going elsewhere.

[kbit]

Mostly just the band now, but I still do some film work.

Mostly art dept stuff on commercials in ATL, set dressing on TV and features in ATL, and scenic dept (as an industrial) in NYC and Philly.

Fuck, that's sounds so rad.

[huggernaut]

I've done a lot of things. And yet now I'm back in school for programming/development.

[Inconuucl]

I've done a lot of things. And yet now I'm back in school for programming/development.

Lots of things + programming is fantastic! No I'm not being sarcastic, a lot of programming majors could benefit from outside experience. I used to grill my students about where they wanted to work and doing what, and often tell them to get either a minor or even a double major in whatever else they wanted to program/code for. Except those who wanted to work on video games. Then I told them to do more math.

[D.o.S.]

So now you just use that as a pep talk for yourself, eh?

[huggernaut]

Lots of things + programming is fantastic! No I'm not being sarcastic, a lot of programming majors could benefit from outside experience. I used to grill my students about where they wanted to work and doing what, and often tell them to get either a minor or even a double major in whatever else they wanted to program/code for. Except those who wanted to work on video games. Then I told them to do more math.

Haha--awesome! That's good to hear!

Yeah I was a high school math teacher turned coffee roaster/quality controller, but tech has always been something I've loved and dabbled in.

In the midst of a crazy bootcamp now to get my feet wet and then off to code!

[Inconuucl]

So now you just use that as a pep talk for yourself, eh?

I'm in a small town trying to find a job until august, it's not like I can get some of the higher reaching jobs I want until after I move.

[lordgalvar]

I used to work for an oil company doing mechanical engineering and was planning on being a corrosion engineer. Quit that boring life so I could pursue an English degree. Achieved the degree and got a job in production plumbing and became a journeyman. Got laid off and never went back (housing crash...was doing well, but got sick of driving and living in hotels). Last "official" job was stock lead/management at Banana Republic which I quit for tax reasons (damn brackets).

Even before I began a professional life, I was kinda this troubleshooter contract worker. People would be like, "I need a website and no one gets me, you do it under the table"....would go home and make it. Or someone would call and need a brewery bottle washing system; I would design and fabricate that for them. Just make random custom solutions for problems...I still do that when people need it (not often because it gets old really fast making people's crazy, sometimes-useless, ideas a reality). However, some jobs are a blast! The one I am planning for now is awesome.

I also do illustration sometimes...but that has been a long time since I have been happy/taken a job in that realm.

But, now, sadly, I stay home and tinker with whatever project my wife wants around the house. Kinda burned out of that (which coincided with ILF...which is why I am on here so much sometimes)...the actual deal was for me to quit working to finally finish and self-publish my graphic novels but, yea, I can be as positive as I want...it is tough to come to the reality that dream jobs don't always happen (and I knew I would never make any cash at it...it was more just to put something into the world...but life haha). Maybe in a while the projects will calm down so I can focus.

Speaking of which I gotta build a bedframe, proto a ring mod, test floppy drives, and finish some designs for some people. And clean the house...arrgg haha.

So I ain't nothin'

[Strange Tales]

Right now I do boring IT help desk support work for like 24 companies.

Soon, I'm moving on to doing networking where I program routers/switches, do installs for new companies, and will manage a Microsoft Exchange email server from the bottom up for the company I work for.