What's your job?

Dr. Tower · Post by **Dr. Tower** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 2:18 pm

The comic is starting back up, why not be more active in the forums too?

Anyway, what do people do for a living now? I'm obviously no longer a grad student. My current job is to help DoD researchers use supercomputers. I have the ability to log onto and run code on multiple systems that are on the Top 500 list. No, I will not run anything you guys suggest (unless I would have run it anyway).

So what do you guys do for a living/going to school for?

ps vim > emacs.

raptor9k · Post by **raptor9k** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 2:56 pm

I'm a "Senior Software Engineer" that's really just a full stack dev for a company that writes Accounting/Tenant solutions for conventional and HUD housing. I mainly live in win32 land but we have .Net web apps and a few mobile offerings. It's a small outfit so we all get to wear all the hats.

Rorschach · Post by **Rorschach** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 3:54 pm

I’m an ESOL lecturer and have been for twelve years.

I teach England to foreign student’s so as you can imagine, Im pretty well at language.

I think I might go for the upcoming Curriculum Head post but I don’t fancy my chances.

Doc Giggles · Post by **Doc Giggles** » Sat Sep 15, 2018 1:03 am

After working in arcades for 23 years, I now fix copiers and printers. Better money. Less of a challenge.

I miss the arcades.

Post by **Martin Blank** » Sat Sep 15, 2018 3:06 am

Doc Giggles wrote: ↑Sat Sep 15, 2018 1:03 am After working in arcades for 23 years, I now fix copiers and printers. Better money. Less of a challenge.

I miss the arcades.

AAAAAH. THE PAPER IS STUCK TO THE FUSER.

There was a time, when I was still fixing printers, the LaserJet 4’s were no friend of mine.
The fusers all flaked, the users all opened tickets, ‘cause all of them died in the briefest time.
All I ever wanted was a printer that would print. I placed all the calls ‘cause the users were all pissed!

And that’s as much as I can do with Aerosmith and printers (HAHA, stuck in your head now!). Seriously, we had 40+ LaserJet 4 printers, and almost all of them had their fusers go out over the course of three months. Then we replaced almost all of them with 4000 series, except for one LaserJet II that three people refused to let go because it WOULD NOT DIE. EVER. NO BREAKS in like SIX YEARS. Damned tanks.

So, anyway, I break into computers for a living. And then I tell people how broken their systems are. Hopefully, when I go back a year later, they’re broken in different ways so I have a different challenge. This involves much travel this year for some reason. I’m typing this while on the way home from Vermont (I think we’re over Oklahoma right now). I’m almost to American’s Platinum status (second elite tier). I’d give you the whole bit about penetration testing touching things we shouldn’t be able to get to and leaving behind a little evidence that we were there, but I think that’s pushing boundaries these days, even if my borderline-communist leftie friends find it humorous.

Seir · Post by **Seir** » Sat Sep 15, 2018 3:25 am

Former EMT now working the occasional odd job while I'm going through nursing school.

JermCool · Post by **JermCool** » Sat Sep 15, 2018 5:23 am

Director of IT for a mid-sized specialty ophthalmology practice in Vegas. Granted, I'm the only IT guy on staff, so I'm Director, Manager, and Help Desk all at once. My life consists of writing and updating HIPAA security policies between answering the phone.

Mav · Post by **Mav** » Sat Sep 15, 2018 6:50 am

Your mom.

Cyberliger777 · Post by **Cyberliger777** » Sat Sep 15, 2018 3:59 pm

Mav wrote: ↑Sat Sep 15, 2018 6:50 amYour mom.

She needs the work.

I am, just this week, the manager of a barbeque restaurant in Seattle. Stepped up after two years to the position after my old manager left. Going to be using the raise to start college classes again to become a Vet.

Post by **FirebirdNC** » Sun Sep 16, 2018 1:53 pm

Sold my deli after 10 years of working two jobs. Still the floor manager going on 17 years at a marina. Currently fixing up our house to put on the market in spring and hopefully, be building our dream home this time next year.

Post by **Martin Blank** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:13 pm

You survived the hurricane! Woot!

SouthernKnight · Post by **SouthernKnight** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 5:23 pm

I'm a "Telecom Engineer" for a big theme park in Florida. I'll let you guys figure out which one.

Cyberliger777 · Post by **Cyberliger777** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 6:47 pm

SouthernKnight wrote: ↑Mon Sep 17, 2018 5:23 pm I'm a "Telecom Engineer" for a big theme park in Florida. I'll let you guys figure out which one.

Six Flags, noice!

SouthernKnight · Post by **SouthernKnight** » Tue Sep 18, 2018 5:47 pm

Cyberliger777 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 17, 2018 6:47 pm
SouthernKnight wrote: ↑Mon Sep 17, 2018 5:23 pm I'm a "Telecom Engineer" for a big theme park in Florida. I'll let you guys figure out which one.
Six Flags, noice!

There are days I wish...lol

Mav · Post by **Mav** » Thu Sep 20, 2018 5:24 am

When I'm not busy with your mom, I also make websites. checkout the game I made: http://insanityincorporated.com

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