What are your jobs?

D · Post by D » Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:42 pm

Software test engineer for financial online banking software.
I would like to become a sofware designer.
Perhaps a good idea is to make a "what are your aspirations" thread.
With what are you doing now/what would you like to do/what will you probably be doing in the future based on courses you are taking.

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:44 pm

Shatterhand wrote:
Herr Schatten wrote:Graphic artist.

I actually do graphics for games, but it's not much fun, mainly because of the way the company I work for is run. At the moment, I'm seriously looking for alternatives. It sounds more boring, but I really want to get back to designing/layouting print stuff (ads, booklets, etc.).
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Oh, what a shame mate. I remember when you got this job you were so excited about it...

No, that was my last job. That one was fun. The current one ...isn't.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:56 pm

oh, I didn't know you had changed jobs..... if you told me about it... sorry, I think it escaped my mind

You told me about your job moving closer to your house, but I thought it was just that they moved their office.

What happened with the old job?

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:08 pm

I am an auditor of the night at a hotel. We've got two bars so it gets crazy on the weekends. This past weekend a drunken brawl broke out between a father and son. The son punched out a mirror in his room and walked in to one of the bars bleeding profusely from his hand and arm while wearing nothing but a tuxedo shirt. Ahhh good times...

It'd be a great job if the hotel weren't run by incompetent fuck ups. I'm going to start looking for another auditing job cause I can't take the management there.

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:09 pm

Shatterhand wrote:What happened with the old job?

The big company, who bought up the smaller one I was working for, put some people in charge who had absolutely no clue about the market they were in. As a result, some horrible management decisions were made, which eventually resulted in the whole place being closed down.

ktownhero · Post by **ktownhero** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:13 pm

I am a PC Support Specialist for a major Payroll/Tax company. I support all of our PC and Internet based software products as well as their communication with our servers.

I'm trying to find the motivation to get back into school for my MBA while I'm working. I would like to get into Project Management, and then try to work my way into the game industry.

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:31 pm

Wow, seems like 80% of shmuppers work in tech.

I'm a press agent for a film production company, but I've got an interview with an even bigger company next week. I really want to get in there, so wish me luck.

eight · Post by **eight** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:55 pm

Good luck, CIT.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:21 pm

yeah, fingers crossed man

PFG 9000 · Post by **PFG 9000** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 3:11 pm

I'm a cop with Green Bay PD.

RippleScythe · Post by **RippleScythe** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 3:20 pm

Just a student. Was a department store stocker and had it hang it up cause of scheduling conflict.

For the past 3 months I've been involved in a real estate investment training and mentorship program as well as network marketing on the side. Great beginner friendly people, when helping out with deals, they don't talk "Dear Abby-ese", they walk you through it and let you see what's happening.

Post by **undamned** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 4:34 pm

fl0w wrote:Developer for Symbian smartphones, currently working for a big company...

Fortunately, my coding skills are way better than my shmupping skills...

Do you write firmware for the phones?

Shatterhand wrote:... it's usually better to do stuff you acutally enjoy even if this means less money. (Yeah, it's a cliche idea, but I guess it's true)

Seriously. I've been w/ my company for 7 years and I can honestly say that I would still want to be working for them even if I never got a raise from day one. In fact, I'd be willing to change my lifestyle to be more simple just to stay with the company, if they couldn't afford to pay me what they wanted to.

PFG 9000 wrote:I'm a cop with Green Bay PD.

Nice. I have a grip of friends/family in the PD/HP. Not my style, but someone's gotta do it, so it's nice to know, personally, that there is some legit enforcement out there.
-ud

animefanjr · Post by **animefanjr** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:16 pm

I am a Graphic Designer. I graduated Drexel University in 2000. Got this job soon after doing medical publishing in Philla.

Decent job, good hours. I wear jean shorts and nike shirts

Could use some more cash though, but it is publishing. Wouldn't mind getting a design job in the videogame indrustry though.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:37 pm

I think I would love to get a job in the videogame industry.

Except that there's NO VIDEOGAME INDUSTRY here in Brazil

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professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:57 pm

Over-worked professor on my first real vacation in the last 3 years.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:55 pm

Shatterhand wrote:I think I would love to get a job in the videogame industry.

Except that there's NO VIDEOGAME INDUSTRY here in Brazil .

well.. what about all them MS/MD bootlegs that come from brazil?

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:56 pm

professor ganson wrote:Over-worked professor

Is there any other kind?

Post by **Shatterhand** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:01 pm

sven666 wrote:
Shatterhand wrote:I think I would love to get a job in the videogame industry.

Except that there's NO VIDEOGAME INDUSTRY here in Brazil .
well.. what about all them MS/MD bootlegs that come from brazil?

Well, I am not that much interested in THAT KIND of industry

Tec Toy actually made some "new" Mega-Drive and Master System games in the last few years, but they all suck.. back at the time they had made Street Fighter II for the SMS which is very impressive, and Duke Nukem 3D for Mega-Drive, which IMO is even more impressive, though it sucked hard

Now they are just a shadow of what they used to be...

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:18 pm

I add to urban sprawl on a daily basis. I work for a commercial real estate developer in the Houston area. If there is a fast food joint or a Wal-Mart going somewhere in Houston there is a good chance we are to blame.

Post by **undamned** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:04 pm

Brian wrote:If there is a fast food joint or a Wal-Mart going somewhere in Houston there is a good chance we are to blame.

Curse you, Brian! CURSE YOUUUU!!!

-ud

Davey · Post by **Davey** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:57 pm

Yet another IT guy here. I mostly do database stuff, importing data from clients and writing reports. I also write programs to help automate as much as I can. My previous job was way more on the development side of things... working with ASP.NET pages, writing middle tier business logic, fixing bugs, etc.

I used to be a help desk guy when I was in college. I'm glad to be out of that. I still get stuck doing it sometimes, though, because our office is too small to have somebody dedicated to that kind of stuff.

The weird thing about being in desktop support is that people's gratitude is inversely proportional to how hard the problem was to fix. If you can fix their dumbass problem in 30 seconds, they think you're a genius, but if you have to spend time investigating some bizarre error they wonder why you can't just immediately fix it with a couple of mouse clicks.

fl0w · Post by **fl0w** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:36 pm

undamned wrote:
fl0w wrote:Developer for Symbian smartphones, currently working for a big company...

Fortunately, my coding skills are way better than my shmupping skills...
Do you write firmware for the phones?

Well sorta... I have access to all the source code of Symbian and UIQ (unvaluable to learn a LOT of things) and what I'm doing right now should be a new feature in a phone that should be ready by the end of the year.
Sorry but I can't be more specific :-/

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:27 pm

So am I the only tech guy who has "getting a verbal ass reaming" in the job description? AFAIK it's pretty much unique to the financial sector, but I could imagine a few other industries where it could be spicey. One of my users threw a full starbucks at the wall. Glad I wasn't in the way. Can't tell you how many broken mice/keyboards I've replaced... although I don't do much of that shit now.

professor ganson wrote:Over-worked professor on my first real vacation in the last 3 years.

What do you profess?

Never_Scurred · Post by **Never_Scurred** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:40 pm

Fucking housekeeper at a hospital.
At least it pays for college.

Post by **undamned** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:45 pm

fl0w wrote:
undamned wrote:Do you write firmware for the phones?
Well sorta... I have access to all the source code of Symbian and UIQ (unvaluable to learn a LOT of things) and what I'm doing right now should be a new feature in a phone that should be ready by the end of the year.

Well, make it neat

-ud

Post by **Shatterhand** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:10 am

Davey wrote: The weird thing about being in desktop support is that people's gratitude is inversely proportional to how hard the problem was to fix. If you can fix their dumbass problem in 30 seconds, they think you're a genius, but if you have to spend time investigating some bizarre error they wonder why you can't just immediately fix it with a couple of mouse clicks.

yes, this is very true.

marcus12024 · Post by **marcus12024** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:03 am

I write software as well as manage several projects at a fairly large hospital. I mostly write in RPGLE, CL, and java on an IBM iSeries. We're currently in the process of buying a 550, and that's got me excited. Right now we're stuck with a dog-ass slow 810 from 5 years ago, it's horrible. I also do a fair bit of the administration on our iSeries - and we've got somewhere in the neighborhood of 1500 users! The biggest downside to my job is that, being based in a fairly small city, the pay is not very good. It's about half what I would make in a larger city.

I really want to get into the videogame industry, but only as an independent developer - I can't imagine being part of a huge company and having the chance of being forced to work on a game you simply can't stand. I love the freedom that indie developers have. I'm currently working on a shmup and a small RPG demo that were both made using my own 2D engine.

Ayanami · Post by **Ayanami** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 4:33 am

Assistant Manager at a Pool Store. I know far too much about pools.

eight · Post by **eight** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:25 am

Pool as in 8ball and snooker or as in swimming pool?

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:06 am

GaijinPunch wrote:So am I the only tech guy who has "getting a verbal ass reaming" in the job description?

well if it makes you feel any better i usually let our indian-helpdesk have it from time to time