View Full Version : What do you do for a living?
So, after reading through some of the results for dr.walrus's education poll, it made me curious...(i know, always a dangerous thing :P ) I know we have a crazy wide array of people here, but I realize I don't really know what most of you do. So, to satisfy my curiosity... :D
Major (if in University):
Current career/job:
Desired career (realistic; seriously, what is it you are shooting for, if you're not there already):
Passion (what would you do if money were no object):
I'll start it off.
Major: Computer Science
Current career: Information Security R&D/IT support (side)
Desired career: Not really sure yet...still looking
Passion: Unfortunately, not entirely sure on that either, but the closest I can think is if I could have a huge junkyard, a hanger full of tools, and facilities to fab anything I couldn't build (carbon fibre, fibreglass, etc)... Just spend my days tinkering and building interesting stuff.
chaksq
03-29-2010, 12:40 PM
Major: Packaging Science
Current Job: Unemployed (looking for part time weekend work)
Desired Career: Work for my self (ideally small buisness owner), also want to own some income property
Passion: Likely to happen: Get my own warehouse to store and work on cars, boats, etc and let my friends rent space for their projects too. My hyper-idealistic dream: mega corporation I run builds self governed space colonies.
Airbozo
03-29-2010, 01:00 PM
Major: None. Mainstream education systems don't work for me. I have many many certifications and specific qualifications.
Current career: Computer Systems Engineering (I design and build and document new computer builds), pre-sales engineer. (lots more)
Desired career: Owning a small bakery.
Passion: Lots. I always seem to have too many passions in life. Keeps me busy, but I don't seem to focus on any one passion.
TheMainMan
03-29-2010, 01:17 PM
Major: Recreation and Leisure Studies (Minor in Computer Science)
Current career: Student
Desired career: Something in Outdoor Recreation, currently very interested in accessible challenge (ropes) courses.
Passion: Build and mod computers and spend the rest of my time outdoors or playing hockey.
spamseptictank
03-29-2010, 01:18 PM
Major (if in University):Not currently enrolled (but I have a B.A. in Religion and a M.Div.)
Current career/job: Stagehand/Tech
Desired career (realistic; seriously, what is it you are shooting for, if you're not there already): I love my job. I do lighting and audio for various events at the local Arena/Theatre/Convention Center full-time and am the guy that does most of the infrastructure.
Passion (what would you do if money were no object): I would like to have a workshop in which to putter and tinker with whatever I find that intrigues me - cars, computers, audio, video, etc.
FWIW,
Dave
artoodeeto
03-29-2010, 01:51 PM
Major: Music (classical piano), then 2 years of 3D art/animation
Current career/job: graphics specialist for an environmental consulting firm
Desired career: working as a professional model builder for film special effects (if anyone from ILM or similar companies sees this, go look at my sandcrawler mod in the WIP section :D and see if I have what it takes LOL).
Passion: travel the world with my girlfriend, buy an ultra expensive Fazioli concert grand and play it all the time, and give free reign to my modding impulses. there'd probably be an estate house and a factory 5 GTM in there somewhere too. :D
diluzio91
03-29-2010, 03:25 PM
Major: Computer Science
Current career/job: Work in the corporate IT center at UW LaCrosse
Desired Career: Systems Administrator
Passion: New computer build every time one is finished, being a "cool" dad some day
burntheland
03-29-2010, 03:29 PM
Primary career: Love machine
Secondary Career: Electrical engineer (work with schematics and pcb's)
Desired Career: Full time Cat Von D service boy ;)
Passion: Music (4 years drums 13 years guitar 2 years audio production)
farlo
03-29-2010, 04:20 PM
Current career/job: insurance agent
Desired career: own a computer shop doing repairs and custom pcs.(instead of just doing it on the side)
Passion: tacos
Jake2k
03-29-2010, 04:22 PM
Major: N/A
Current career/job: Fabrication technician/press operator for General Electric
Desired career: Photographer
Passion: Used to be music (bass guitar) but now everything's about photography haha
HackSore
03-29-2010, 05:31 PM
Current career: Bouncer/Doorman
Desired career: Owning my own little performance computer shop, or going into personal protection.
Passion: Martial arts, specifically MMA and Krav Maga, and music, mainly drumming for grindcore bands!
mDust
03-29-2010, 06:19 PM
Major: Digital Animation, though it's not complete yet.
Current Career: None/Student. Though part-time/side jobs pay the rent.
Desired Career: Multimillionaire retiree, 9-5 just isn't for me.
Passion: Tinkering and random designing. I've set a few slightly outrageous life goals: 1) Build a couple very large Stirling Engines that can power some small generators which will charge a home battery or capacitor array and #2. 2) Rip the motor and drive-train out of a Hummer H1 and replace it with 4 excessively high-powered wheel-mounted electric motors. Enjoy tire-roasting, eco-friendly behemoth. 3) Build and pilot battle mech. Do epic battle with guy in Canada who also built one. 4) Come up with more excessive and nearly-unattainable goals. 5) Have fun and die happy...or die in a fiery mech battle. lol
big_grizzl
03-29-2010, 10:21 PM
Major:computer science minor in business
Current Career:video editor and partime student
Desired Career: to one day own a chain of large computer ,electronic franchise and be filthy rich
Passion: to invent a new type of entertainment system i have had many attempts but
they have not worked out yet but as they say what doesn't kill you only make you stronger
dr.walrus
03-30-2010, 12:04 AM
Major: Computer Science (UK student so 'major' doesn't really translate, all of my modules are in Computer Science...)
Current Career: Full time student and part time web designer / farm labourer / guitar tech / whatever fits around my course at any given moment. Spent several years working at various helpdesk tiers, from tech support to disputed warranty claims (fun).
Desired Career: Something involving robots. But more seriously, IT management.
Passion: Umm, haha, really? Punk rock, heavy metal, travel, technology, history, more monitors and more screwdrivers because you can never have enough pixels. Or screwdrivers. Oh and food. Mainly meat. And beer. Skydiving, scuba diving, tattoos, large slobbery dogs and having enough money to pay for all of the above.
blueonblack
03-30-2010, 12:45 AM
Major: None. I did the trade school thing for a while, not for me.
Current Career: Stock answer to that: Fighting the Darwinian process by helping stupid helpless people to prosper, thereby being more likely to procreate. More specifically, I handle breakdowns at a major transportation company. I'm the guy they call when they break down on the road, anywhere in America. We have over four thousand trucks on the road and on my shift there are two people to cover the breakdowns. We also hire some of the most helpless, whiny, childish steering-wheel holders in the nation, and I deal with them for thirteen hours a night. You'll have to excuse my bitterness.
Desired Career: Anything that allows me to deal with things instead of people. More specifically, I would love to own my own custom-woodworking shop, specializing in high-end heirloom-quality furniture etc.
Passion: Creation. If money were no object I would love to travel the world and spend as much time as I could with my kids while they're small, but when that was all done, I would create, be it in wood, steel, electronics, or even the written word. My shop would make Jay Leno want to murder me.
Bopher
03-30-2010, 01:29 AM
Major (if in University): N/A
Current career/job: Assistant Manager for Wendys
Desired career (realistic; seriously, what is it you are shooting for, if you're not there already): Computer Network IT
Passion (what would you do if money were no object): Own my own restaurant, be it fast food or full service. And the time to spend with my daughter and watch her grow up and take her to different places like i had the chance when I was a kid. I would have a full workshop and the ability to work and develop more home automation systems for everyone and especially for the disabled.
slaveofconvention
03-30-2010, 04:48 PM
Major: I dropped out, twice lol - Once from a Business Computing degree - 2 years in and I'd barely learned a thing new and there was a limit to even my patience, and second time from an IT and Education degree which would have qualified me to be a teacher. During the second year, during a 3 month placement in a school I realised that, as long as my temper is, I would have ended up knocking some little turn out of a window.
Current Job: Co-manager of an automotive body repair supplies store with a stupidly busy bespoke IT support business on the side.
Desired career: I'm a grafter with little real ambition. I really don't care what I do as long as there's a roof over my head and the bills get paid. I would like to run a small computer shop in a little town - I've done that in the past and really enjoyed it, but the market is pretty much flooded everywhere close to where I live now.
Passion: I'm almost at the point where, again, I no longer care - I just work to pay the bills and make sure everyone I care about is taken care of. I really don't get a lot of time for me, or to think about me, so I haven't really thought about this. It'd probably involve a move abroad and the aforementioned small puter store.
diluzio91
03-31-2010, 08:59 AM
If you move to the states come to WI!!! we dont have a decent computer store within 2 hours... :(
Major: I dropped out, twice lol - Once from a Business Computing degree - 2 years in and I'd barely learned a thing new and there was a limit to even my patience, and second time from an IT and Education degree which would have qualified me to be a teacher. During the second year, during a 3 month placement in a school I realised that, as long as my temper is, I would have ended up knocking some little turn out of a window.
Current Job: Co-manager of an automotive body repair supplies store with a stupidly busy bespoke IT support business on the side.
Desired career: I'm a grafter with little real ambition. I really don't care what I do as long as there's a roof over my head and the bills get paid. I would like to run a small computer shop in a little town - I've done that in the past and really enjoyed it, but the market is pretty much flooded everywhere close to where I live now.
Passion: I'm almost at the point where, again, I no longer care - I just work to pay the bills and make sure everyone I care about is taken care of. I really don't get a lot of time for me, or to think about me, so I haven't really thought about this. It'd probably involve a move abroad and the aforementioned small puter store.
Luke122
03-31-2010, 12:08 PM
Major: lolwut?
Current Job: I do precision guess-work, based on vague assumptions and unreliable data of dubious accuracy, provided by persons of questionable intellectual capacity.
(I'm a technician at a computer store.)
Desired Job: Retired billionaire philanthropist and ecologist, administrating a charitible organization, dedicated to preserving and growing ecological sanctuaries around the world, and reclaim land left behind by industrial developments.
Passion: Family, music, art, technology, nature,.
original
03-31-2010, 12:52 PM
Major: Bsc. Mechanical Engineering
Current job: Student, Comp Tech
Desired Career: Automotive design Egineer, development of more eco friendly as well as sexy new model designs probably for a high end companies. :-)
Passions: Computer an Automotive Techonologies an science, Software applications (mostly 3d animation an moddling software), getting certified in automotive diplomas on different technician levels, love designing and modifing.
:)
burntheland
03-31-2010, 01:38 PM
Major: lolwut?
Current Job: I do precision guess-work, based on vague assumptions and unreliable data of dubious accuracy, provided by persons of questionable intellectual capacity.
...HAHAHAHAHA!
knowledgegranted
03-31-2010, 04:10 PM
Major: I'm a sophomore in highschool
Current Job: Student / Video game design
Desired Job: Nano computer electric engineer / physicist
Passion: I want to eventually create a company full of Hackers (the original definition, not today's definition)
slaveofconvention
03-31-2010, 06:13 PM
If you move to the states come to WI!!! we dont have a decent computer store within 2 hours... :(
If I move to the states, I'm pretty sure the (American) wife would insist on PA lol - there's a guy in her hometown already doing computer stuff, but I hear thru the grapevine that he isn't particularly great at it - course - moving into a new town and putting one of the locals out of business isn't likely to make me super-welcome :p
Drum Thumper
03-31-2010, 06:22 PM
Major: IT
Current Job: Retail store Assistant Database Admin/Retail Integrity (I make sure you don't get overcharged for your donuts)
Desired Job: Ethical Hacker
Passion: Beer brewing, music performance and making sure that everyone around me is having a good time.
UnWantedSoldier
04-02-2010, 12:03 PM
Major: Administration of Justice
Current Job: Warehouse manager for Medical Equipment company
Desired Job: Law Enforcement Officer
Passion: If money was no issue i would write science fiction and probably open up my own business, either a custom computer shop or a gun shop... hey why not both lol.
blueonblack
04-03-2010, 01:26 AM
moving into a new town and putting one of the locals out of business isn't likely to make me super-welcome :p
If you're that much better at it than he is, the rest of the locals would probably be glad to have you. You'd likely not be super-welcome at his house, but you didn't want a Christmas card from him, anyway.
Grump
04-05-2010, 08:54 PM
Major: I'm old, it's been years, but I was a English/Psych major.
Current Job: I'm old and retired. Oh wait, I'm a webmaster and forum owner now.
Desired Job: To be un-old. I want my old job back - I had a flooring business for 17 years.
Passion: Creating, building, modifying - I did what I loved doing for 35 years.
Grump
I did what I loved doing for 35 years.
I hope I can say the same when I retire. :D Far too few can.
simon275
04-06-2010, 03:53 AM
Major: Bachelor of Science IT
Current Job: None
Desired Job: Run my own network consultancy firm
Passion: IT!!!
slaveofconvention
04-06-2010, 04:34 PM
If you're that much better at it than he is, the rest of the locals would probably be glad to have you. You'd likely not be super-welcome at his house, but you didn't want a Christmas card from him, anyway.
It's a SMALL town lol - I mean like, there are about 5000 people total, the town has ONE traffic signal, and that's part time - spends about 10 hours a day just flashing yellow....
I don't personally know how good or bad the guy is - the month or so total I've spent in town, well if anything went wrong, I'm not the kind of guy who needs to go looking for help most of the time. What I've heard from the wife and her friends though, wasn't positive...
EDIT: The figure 5000 was based on me yelling at the wife - A little more digging and... "According to the 2000 census, the borough population was 4,126."
blaze15301
04-04-2011, 02:53 AM
It's a SMALL town lol - I mean like, there are about 5000 people total, the town has ONE traffic signal, and that's part time - spends about 10 hours a day just flashing yellow....
I don't personally know how good or bad the guy is - the month or so total I've spent in town, well if anything went wrong, I'm not the kind of guy who needs to go looking for help most of the time. What I've heard from the wife and her friends though, wasn't positive...
EDIT: The figure 5000 was based on me yelling at the wife - A little more digging and... "According to the 2000 census, the borough population was 4,126."
dude that sounds like a town closet o me lol.
Major- H.S student
Current career/job: dishwasher at local Italian restaurant.
Desired career (realistic; seriously, what is it you are shooting for, if you're not there already):Realistically I am young and I can do anything I want. I have many things that make me happy but nothing I can see myself doing for the rest of my life.
Passion (what would you do if money were no object):create things,help those who cant help themselves,anything i wanted to spontaneously do i would.
xr4man
04-04-2011, 12:29 PM
major - right now general education, but after will be mechanical engineering
current job - R.F. technician and acting mechanical engineer
desired job - electro-mechanical robotics engineer (i want to build terminators)
if money was no object - i'd have a crazy ass garage with many really cool custom cars. my body guy would never be out of work. also buy a large chunk of land and run some sort of small dog rescue. not that the big dogs don't need it too, but i like little doggies.
dr.walrus
04-04-2011, 02:10 PM
This thread cheered me up - my CV looks remarkably different now than it did a year ago
Yeticorn
04-04-2011, 02:45 PM
Major: Computer Science
Current career/job: Software Developer for a cyber security company
Desired career: I'm happy where I am right now.
Passion (what would you do if money were no object): Open a computer shop. I've talked with a friend of mine from back in the day about doing this. It may happen one day...
Diamon
04-04-2011, 04:00 PM
Major: Not done yet but working on one in "Automation and mechatronics"
Current job: Student
Desired career: Building large-scale automated systems
Passion: Dunno, I wouldn't want someone to just hand me infinite money. My passion must be to make that infinite money myself.
I have many things that make me happy but nothing I can see myself doing for the rest of my life.
Watch out for that one. Not saying you have to decide now, or even soon, but I've been in that situation for several years now...it's fun for a while, but it just gets old. If I were stuck in a job I hated, I think it would be better almost (no, probably not, tbh)...instead I'm stuck in a job that I marginally enjoy, but where I am bored a lot of the time (software maintenance development now). All my life growing up, I was told "Find something you love doing and figure out how to make money doing it, and you'll never work another day in your life". ...I just never counted on the first step being so difficult...
Displaced network analyst. They have me sending out bills now. I run a Pitney Bowes Flowmaster, and process about 50,000 bills per night. It'll be more come next year; we just merged with another company, and will have an additional 80,000 bills per day to send out (this is on top of the 200,000 we already send out per day). I have the machine slowed down a little for the video.
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Kayin
04-04-2011, 07:57 PM
After I finish Whaler's Heading, I'll probably spend my time making knives, powder horns, and such for bucskinning groups and Ren faires. Lots o fun and honestly, it's a lot better use of my time than sit around crying about my bad heart and failing eye. Feeling sorry for yourself never leads to anything.
Also, being a stay-at-home dad. It's great to get to watch him grow every day-each one of those a day we were told we wouldn't get.
jdbnsn
04-04-2011, 08:45 PM
Major: Bachelor of science in Biology with minors in art, chemistry, philosophy, and bullshi-ttery
Current job: chief resident physician, complaint registrar, purveyor of pricey doses of placebo
Desired career: I want to be a consultant to help medicare sort out some minor issues...
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Passion:
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Snowman
04-06-2011, 10:57 AM
Major (if in University):Network administration incomplete (I am short like two credit hours)
Current career/job: Dish Network Distributor Technical Service/ In house IT support
Desired career (realistic; seriously, what is it you are shooting for, if you're not there already): Gunsmithing, Animal Rescue, Wildlife Management, anything that gets me outside really.
Passion (what would you do if money were no object): I would rescue pits and other breeds or a Gunsmithing/FFL shop
biggoofy
04-10-2011, 11:35 PM
Major- Currently at HACC, Computer Information Specialist.
Current Job/Career- Part time at CVS, Full time student
Desired Career- Run my own Computer Repair/Parts Store or start a similar small business.
Passion- Be one of the cast members on Top Gear, own a garage full of supercars, a separate garage for computer building/repair, personal ice hockey rink and all within walking distance of the beach.
Spawn-Inc
04-11-2011, 12:51 AM
Current career: HVAC&R Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning and Refrigeration.
Desired career: pretty much what i'm doing right now, maybe more so on my own terms.
Passion: something to do with computers, and guns lol. and get back into biology and chemistry.
d_stilgar
04-11-2011, 04:18 PM
Major: Architecture. At University of Idaho. I'll have my master's in 3 more years. Feels like forever.
Current job: Summers I work at WSU doing grounds maintenance. I mow and weed whack, pick up garbage, dig holes. I like it.
Desired career: Custom Homes, Urban Planning and Development, Regional Planning. Video game level design or Imagineer if the opportunity comes and I'm prepared to take it.
Passion: Design and run a 'nerd'/'geek' living/learning design studio/school. Have a lan gaming center, hacker space, tools to design and build pretty much anything, living quarters, study areas, cafe. Parts of it would be more public business and parts would be more private community. If money were truly no object I would design and build an entire city (or nation), build the fastest train system in the world here in the U.S.A., build a space elevator, and make a video game inspired theme park with all the big names in the industry. If money weren't an issue I would definitely start a video game company. I also like to write and do art, I really enjoyed doing the Midnight Rider's Video Contest and I've been talking with a friend about doing a low budget film. It might turn into several short films, but short films tend to be kinda bad, so I'd rather stay away from that. To be honest, the whole passion thing is something that I find myself actually doing in one way or another. Probably not everything on the passion list, but a fair amount of it will at least be attempted.
Ichbin
04-18-2011, 07:54 AM
Major: Business Administration
Current job: IT Coordinator for the Nuclear Regulatory Commision
Desired career: Owning a Software Development company/MSP/IT consulting agency/Engineering firm
Passion:Computers, Business, Technology, Smartphones, Cars, Motorcycles, Problem Solving, Marketing, Graphics Design, (I can't think it's early)
Fuganater
04-18-2011, 08:39 AM
Major: AS Computer Forensics and Network Security, AS Network Administration
Current Job: Information Technical Specialist for the Dept. of State
Desired Career: What I am doing now. Greatest job in the world.
Passion: Computers, Android Tablets and Phones, Fixing peoples tech problems.
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