What do you do for a living?

[biojuggernaut]

damn Havock wishing you the best of luck!

 

[Abysmal Vapor]

damn Havock wishing you the best of luck!

+1 Dude. I've been cut from job 5 times in last 3 years LOL.. Financial crysis hit hard,.. all the places i work had to shorten the fresh members in order to survive.. I doubt i ever get a decent job around here..

 

[havock69]

Thanks guys.bi was there for three years....I get 2 bs complaints and im fired....fair? Eh

 

[manchild]

Spent about 10 years as a bartender while studying and pretending to study.
Now that I've grown up I'm a Marine Biologist on paper working as a water quality sampling officer. I really like my job at the moment, been there for 5 years.

 

[Davinci_vaporizer]

I'm a punk rock internet marketing guy, and before that a mediocre web designer.
Pre-internet work, I was a sous chef (tex mex food)

After I leave the office, I'm a family man with 5 kids and play in a little punk band Drag Queen Date Rape (it doesn't even pay enough to provide gas money to move the equipment to the venue, but I do it for fun anyways) and am in pre-production for an underground magic show called "IMagicX".

I'm also a mediocre actor/writer/director/producer, but haven't done much with any of that lately.

 

[technique]

Im an electrician, so if you live in london and all of a sudden your vape stops working due to loss of power ill treat it as an emergency

 

[havock69]

New job at another chain restaurant. Start training this week!

 

[biojuggernaut]

word! good luck maybe some of your co-workers smoke/vape. I buy from my friend's dude who works at the Olive Garden here.

 

[Vaporisateur]

Work in the Information Technology industry since 1989 for both the private and public sector, and I currently hold an IT Senior Analyst position at... won't say where for obvious reasons. Yeah, I love my job and I hope I can keep doing it until my retirement plan kicks in

 

[CombustionJunction]

computer related, if i were to explain the details all it would prove is that im a nerd 8-5.

Ditto

 

[storybookhero]

I miss this thread so I am bringing it back. I hope nobody minds?

 

[GatorJC]

I'm a vet tech. I work nights and weekends at an emergency clinic.

 

[dequelo]

Network Engineer /Systems Engineer for a large manufacturer

 

[pakalolo]

Officially retired last month from a 43 year career in IT. Started as a internal systems software specialist on IBM mainframes, moved to standards and documentation, and for the last 30 years wrote and managed the documentation for a large and rather complicated product for large IBM systems. I worked for a wonderful company that allowed me to spend two months every summer on Maui, which is where I am right now, and where my wife and I fell in love with sea turtles and wrote a successful book about them.

We do not, however, have anything to do with weed while we're here.

 

[Vicki]

I'm a vet tech. I work nights and weekends at an emergency clinic.

I used to be a Vet tech as well. It is very rewarding.

 

[Your Highness]

computer related, if i were to explain the details all it would prove is that im a nerd 8-5.

Sounds familiar! I get tired of trying to explain it myself...lets just say IT Service Management for a large Company.

 

[t-dub]

Officially retired last month from a 43 year career in IT. Started as a internal systems software specialist on IBM mainframes

So you know COBOL then my HS comp sci teacher was Elmer Cubie, he helped develope and install the first IBM 360s for air traffic control . . .

 

[pakalolo]

So you know COBOL then my HS comp sci teacher was Elmer Cubie, he helped develope and install the first IBM 360s for air traffic control . . .

Yes, I do. Less than an ideal language, but not nearly as bad as many want you to think. You'd be amazed (and perhaps scared) to know how much legacy COBOL from the 70s is still running.

 

[SD_haze]

When this thread first came up I posted that I was doing accounting, but I've switched to management information systems (MIS)

 

[oneiros.]

I work for HP, but supporting server infrastructure (doing computer thingys). Been there for roughly for 4 years (I'm 22)

It's strange, because I still don't have an engineering degree or so, and I'm a tier 3 agent, yet they hire people with their degrees and older as me as tier 1 agents, and most of them, for some reason, are really bad at their jobs. I sometimes feel strange in that position, but, I'm neither complaining xD

 

[storybookhero]

I work at a community center, I am always amazed out how many of us do things in the service department of some kind. I wanted to be a vet tech when I was a kid. Thanks for helping aminals yo!

 

[dequelo]

You'd be amazed (and perhaps scared) to know how much legacy COBOL from the 70s is still running.

yes there are and when I was in the field I would run into AS400 boxes a lot

now I mostly work with M$ stuff

 

[t-dub]

Cubie made me learn BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, and we also compiled in hexadecimal . . . and all of this was done in the early 1980s on the Tandy Radio Shack TRS 80 model 2 level 3 er . . . "machines" . . also known as the "Trash 80" this was state of the art in my computer lab . . .

 

[mephisto]

I am a HVAC tech, been cooling hot boxes for 25+ years ( as well as hot-boxing coolers).
@t-dub, your post about the trs-80 makes me think of the flight sim "game" we had on
that machine in middle school. I can also remember learning a tiny amount of Apple code
and playing games at the local university. Those horrible monochrome orange screens....

 

[t-dub]

@t-dub, your post about the trs-80 makes me think of the flight sim "game" we had on that machine in middle school. I can also remember learning a tiny amount of Apple code and playing games at the local university. Those horrible monochrome orange screens....

LOL weren't they GREAT