Career Thread: Whats your job?

[DJ Long Cat]

If anyone feels like sharing their current employment or college degree/technical degree, I'd be interested in knowing what some of you guys do for a living.

I've seen the tech repair board and you guys amaze me a lot for what you come up with for these projects.

I'm currently a senior getting a degree in Computer Engineering and I kinda thought a lot of you guys might be Electrical Engineers from how savvy you all are with these arcade repairs.

If there is another thread like this, I apologize since I didn't look that hard.

 

[Kid Panda]

I'm a dairy frozen manager at a grocery store

 

[Yodd]

.Gov IT employee

I more or less lean against the IT equivalent of a shovel all day long.

Don't do shit and get paid good money while doing it.

 

[supergoose]

I more or less lean against the IT equivalent of a shovel all day long.

Like so?

 

[mr_b]

I'm a IT Manager currently. I was a IT Consultant for the first 8 years of my career. I started out as a 3rd shift network technician at an ISP, which basically means I sat there and watched a monitoring system and would cry wolf if something went down. When I got out of college it just so happened to coincide when the DOT COM bubble burst in 2001. I had a hell of a time getting any hits on applications, so I took what I could get which took me almost 2 years to find employment.

I learned alot from my consulting work. Often times you just get called in to a shit storm that most companies IT staff can't fix or broke in the first place. I don't think much of what my profession is did much in the way of understanding arcade stuff when it comes down to it. I think working in the IT field just provides you with the ability to teach yourself. Most arcade tech is pretty low-tech stuff. It's mainly a lot of basic electrical knowledge of voltages and point to point wiring and connections.

There are a lot more arcade tech savvy guys on this forum than me. I try to share my knowledge whenever possible though...

 

[Yodd]

Like so?

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Not too far off.

I do sleep regularly on the job.

 

[cdamm]

im a sales and marketing guy by trade.

 

[Cavalry]

For me it's semi-complicated. I do web design/development, but the person I'm working for isn't giving me much work atm. I'm trying to find freelance gigs in the mean time.

 

[68k]

I am a fry cook at the local McDonalds.

 

[DJ Long Cat]

I am a fry cook at the local McDonalds.

Well at least your honest

 

[cdamm]

im just thrilled im not competing for work with all these IT guys.

 

[Adderall]

Well at least your honest

no.. he's not. He manages all the frycooks in some virtual mcdonalds..

I'm not smart enough for electronic engineering... roughly 85% of all my hardware and electronic projects fail miserably (although I do have fun doing them).

for the day job, software dev in the medical field

 

[andsuchisdeath]

Well at least your honest

I don't understand the laughing emoticon. First off, how do you know the poster is being honest. Furthermore, if he is, where does the humor lie?

Anyways, I'm a ditch digger.

 

[Dr Shroom]

I am, infact, very fucking rich.
Suckers.

 

[lithy]

BA in Anthropology.

So of course that's useless.

I'm a brewer, specifically brewery packaging manager.

Pay sucks, work is hot/cold, everything else is great.

 

[Lashujin]

Air Traffic Control

 

[NeoSneth]

Science. I do science. Mostly genetics.
I also do freelance marketing for XboxOne.

 

[skate323k137]

Day job is Linux sysadmin / web application security.

 

[68k]

Well at least your honest

Do you want fries with that?

 

[Dr Shroom]

I also do freelance marketing for XboxOne.

You're doing a great job.

 

[68k]

hahaha

 

[hyper]

my gifts from god preclude me from "working" for a living

.. plebes

 

[neo_mao]

Well, sir, I step in front of cars and sue the drivers.

 

[northernsoul]

English Literature Teacher by trade, but difficultly getting a job led me into working for a city library. I'm now a Young Adult Librarian.

 

[DJ Long Cat]

Do you want fries with that?

I'm sorry if I offended you. It wasn't my intention. I just thought some people would try to give non-serious answers and I just didn't know if you were or not.