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Just curious what everyone's job(s) are?
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I went to college for computers, when I got out nobody wanted a computer person so I went into the Solar business. I figured it will be a big industry one day when we run out of oil.
Manic Lion - this is precisely why I got out of computers and software. I have an enormous amount of experience and I hated to toss it all out the window (including advanced degrees in it) but I am not going to be held hostage to the exportation of our jobs to foreigners (e.g. India). These sweat shops work for 1/5th our salary and have no life outside of the job. It use to be a terrific way to get paid to have fun in this country . But alas the good days are over and all we do now in this country is integrate microsoft applicaitons and data and hack junk with cut and paste editors on the web sites with high school nerds.
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Hard to say what I do anymore. Pretty much whatever I want to I guess. Decided I was tired of the Corporate America rat race and ???fired my last boss??? after he tried to extort me into firing a good man for political reasons. At least I took him out with me as I went out the door.
Use to be a lot of different things: Research Scientist, Computer Scientist, Electrical Engineer, System Engineer, Technical Director, Technical Marketer, Marketing Consultant and Investor. Also had my own marketing company on the side and did some freelance writing too.
Now I do some occasional ???special projects??? that I get asked to help out on here and there. Also doing some real estate investing on the side when I need some cash to play with or get bored. I also sell high end luxury properties to clients when ever we can find some available inventory. Usually I can sit back on my duff and relax after I sell a few of these properties at the $1million mark or there abouts.
Other than that I just do recreational things like body building, offshore fishing, yachting, and experiment with different martini formulas.
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Use to be a lot of different things: Research Scientist, Computer Scientist, Electrical Engineer, System Engineer, Technical Director, Technical Marketer, Marketing Consultant and Investor. Also had my own marketing company on the side and did some freelance writing too.
Now I do some occasional ???special projects??? that I get asked to help out on here and there. Also doing some real estate investing on the side when I need some cash to play with or get bored. I also sell high end luxury properties to clients when ever we can find some available inventory. Usually I can sit back on my duff and relax after I sell a few of these properties at the $1million mark or there abouts.
Other than that I just do recreational things like body building, offshore fishing, yachting, and experiment with different martini formulas.
OD
I manage a strip club and bounce when needed.
Boy that was easy to describe.
Boy that was easy to describe.
Johnnny
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maniclion yeah that's the problem with computer jobs now. How'd you get into the Solar business & what type of schooling did you require?
OceanDude I totally agree with you. My Photoshop teacher told me that they have programming & web designers in India & China who can do it in their apartment or house & get paid around $4/hr.
That's one reason I'm not sure I want to get into web design.
OceanDude I totally agree with you. My Photoshop teacher told me that they have programming & web designers in India & China who can do it in their apartment or house & get paid around $4/hr.
That's one reason I'm not sure I want to get into web design.
Pitboss.. I need a job 
I basically handle VPN troubleshooting, Citrix problems, video conferencing, etc. Mostly communication type stuff. I've gotten out the Ghosting/hardware repair area, thank god. I would love to get out the IT field in general, but I have nothing else to fall back on.
It's own by a husband and wife. Same owners for nearly 3o years. But we have two clubs and the one in Chatsworth is considered a Hells Angels bar. All that means is that other clubs have to have permission to hang out there.
Fun? sometimes. Mostly boring, same ole same ole thing. I haven't had to physically throw anyone out this year. Compared to last year it was a weekly thing and helped me relieve stress.. LOL
Close to the ladies?? It's not what people think. It's a job. However, yes I have gone out with a few of the girls over the past 2.5 years that I have worked there.
Originally posted by greekblondechic
Pitboss.. I need a job
Well you would have to give me an audition first. Do you know how to use a pole???
once was fat
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Im a general manager for a large car rental company. I oversee 7 locations and about 150 employees. Eat a bucket of bolts and shit out a car.
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how 'bout that..another former IT guy...
now I am in real estate
now I am in real estate
Originally posted by Pitboss
Do you know how to use a pole???
Let me get this straight, you're asking Greeky if she knows how to use a pole
All I can say to that is daaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmn
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now, how can you say that, randy? get yer mind out of the gutter...
he just wants to knowif she can grind up against a hard pole.
wait.
he wants to know if she can slide up and down a pole.
no..wait...
if she can straddle a pole...
hmm..maybe you're right..
he just wants to knowif she can grind up against a hard pole.
wait.
he wants to know if she can slide up and down a pole.
no..wait...
if she can straddle a pole...
hmm..maybe you're right..
Johnnny
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greekblondechic I'm just teasing you.
once was fat do you have any locations in Montreal Canada? I'm looking for more work. As I said I get paid while working at home most of the time & then going in with the finihsed work & finding out what has to be done & so on. If you do maybe I could work there part time to fill in the days that I'm working at home & make more money. I usually take several hours at night to do my work after I go to the gym at around 5pm.
once was fat do you have any locations in Montreal Canada? I'm looking for more work. As I said I get paid while working at home most of the time & then going in with the finihsed work & finding out what has to be done & so on. If you do maybe I could work there part time to fill in the days that I'm working at home & make more money. I usually take several hours at night to do my work after I go to the gym at around 5pm.
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Akateros do you work for a printing firm? I have a buddy who's been looking for a job as a pressman for almost 2yrs now.
Does anyone own any buldings such as office buildings or apartments or others? & if so how'd they get the cash for them & do you find it makes enough money? & are their any problems with the ppl who rent them from you?
Does anyone own any buldings such as office buildings or apartments or others? & if so how'd they get the cash for them & do you find it makes enough money? & are their any problems with the ppl who rent them from you?
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Oracle database administrator (DBA) and developer.
Don't worry about myth of IT jobs being sent overseas. Some of our low tech jobs such as call centers are being moved overseas, but more and higher paying IT jobs are being imported into the US.
Plus, they may work for less money but our productivity is much high. If they earn 1/4 of our salary but only produce 1/5 of our work its more economical to keep the job in the US. Aside for the US tax/regulatory burden that is.
Don't worry about myth of IT jobs being sent overseas. Some of our low tech jobs such as call centers are being moved overseas, but more and higher paying IT jobs are being imported into the US.
Plus, they may work for less money but our productivity is much high. If they earn 1/4 of our salary but only produce 1/5 of our work its more economical to keep the job in the US. Aside for the US tax/regulatory burden that is.
Hey I want to work on Photo shop all day that shit it fun and easy all I have is just the shitty microsoft paint, which sucks. How do you gat a job doing that?
LbN, IT jobs have been fairly flat in this country for some time now and there no where near the investment being placed in IT technology as there was 5 years ago. I think we have peaked in the productivity improvements and CEOs/CTO???s now want to run with the current technology for as long as they can to recapture investment costs. My own IT department was forced to justify their jobs and we were made to get my staff on direct billing as much as possible rather than put them on G&A and overhead where they traditionally belong. Many firms I worked with reduced staff, froze salaries and made do with less people and just worked them harder (the bonus for getting more productive). I agree however that this one small segment of computing that is not as prone to being imported than other software areas though. But when you look at the trends in large computing systems and custom software development, it is almost non-existent in this country anymore. I made a huge amount of money when computing took off in this country back in the late 70???s and 80???s. We were writing custom systems for everyone (Military, Nuclear Power Generation, Steel Production, Factory Automation etc. etc.). Now everyone just buys an off the shelf Microsoft or Oracle or SAP business system and plugs and plays. The only real work I see going on is customizing reports (which a secretary can pretty much do now with the tools that are easy to use). On occasion you bring in a consultant to tune the table rules and install patches.
The WEB phenomena set us back decades in software engineering methodology and gave all professional SW engineers a bad name. All the self taught hackers convinced companies that they could cut and paste hijacked javascript and VBasic code all over the corporate sites and make it all work seamlessly. No one ever thought about the costs of maintaining that and the real issues of figuring out what the heck was being presented to the public for some of these huge companies. Content management is probably the next best and biggest possibility for the software developers. This means we do less programming and more information management and move up in the hierarchy of services and become even more abstracted from the real work under the hood. I am not optimistic about the direction of computing as it relates to stable jobs and think it will be near impossible to stay employed with any company long and everyone will degrade to consultants with no benefits, no regular salary that they can count on and be living out of suitcases flying around the country.
The quality of life we once counted on and the social stability of an 8-5 job m-f are fading rapidly in the software industry.
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OD,
The last couple of years have been a bit slow for the IT industry. But I think that it is more of a trend that will hopefully turn around this summer.
Think about the timing. 5 years ago the Y2K (so-called) problem was all the rage and companies were spending hundreds of millions of dollars on hardware and software. Software companies had record profits and hired anyone who could fog a mirror, IT hardware companies had record profits, hired everyone, and boosted production to increase their inventory. After Y2K, companies had all of the hardware that they could manage and the normal hardware refresh cycle was stopped. Then there were all those employees hired to fix the Y2K problems and Y2K was past. CISCO and intell and other IT hardware companies suffered poor sales and large inventories. Then the IT bubble burst and things started going to hell. Then September 11 occured and things got to hell.
IMO the Y2K build up contributed to our current situation. Budgets were thrown out of wack and the normal business cycle was skewed. It looks like things are coming back around and the IT industry may pick back up.
I think that you are right about content management being big in the near future. Also consider healthcare IT as a up and coming area. The combination of possible terrorist bio-attacks and the baby boom generation getting old (as dirt) will increase the need for IT solutions. Of course some areas of IT are safer than others. Network administrator, IT security specialist, and DBA positions usually require in-house people where as help desk positions can be set up where there are phone lines.
Only time will tell and I hope that the economy gets strong again because I tired of being where I'm at. (As you can tell because I spend time on the web.)
The last couple of years have been a bit slow for the IT industry. But I think that it is more of a trend that will hopefully turn around this summer.
Think about the timing. 5 years ago the Y2K (so-called) problem was all the rage and companies were spending hundreds of millions of dollars on hardware and software. Software companies had record profits and hired anyone who could fog a mirror, IT hardware companies had record profits, hired everyone, and boosted production to increase their inventory. After Y2K, companies had all of the hardware that they could manage and the normal hardware refresh cycle was stopped. Then there were all those employees hired to fix the Y2K problems and Y2K was past. CISCO and intell and other IT hardware companies suffered poor sales and large inventories. Then the IT bubble burst and things started going to hell. Then September 11 occured and things got to hell.
IMO the Y2K build up contributed to our current situation. Budgets were thrown out of wack and the normal business cycle was skewed. It looks like things are coming back around and the IT industry may pick back up.
I think that you are right about content management being big in the near future. Also consider healthcare IT as a up and coming area. The combination of possible terrorist bio-attacks and the baby boom generation getting old (as dirt) will increase the need for IT solutions. Of course some areas of IT are safer than others. Network administrator, IT security specialist, and DBA positions usually require in-house people where as help desk positions can be set up where there are phone lines.
Only time will tell and I hope that the economy gets strong again because I tired of being where I'm at. (As you can tell because I spend time on the web.)
Originally posted by Burner02
now, how can you say that, randy? get yer mind out of the gutter...
he just wants to knowif she can grind up against a hard pole.
wait.
he wants to know if she can slide up and down a pole.
no..wait...
if she can straddle a pole...
hmm..maybe you're right..
That's good Burner
