What do you do for a living?

[Hoser]

Thanx lex.

They laid off 6 guys in my round, and then 2 more 2 days after that. A week later they let 6 more go, and word is they're going to let 5 more go in 2 weeks. That doesn't leave too many guys on the floor. I don't think they are going to get through this recession/depression very well. It could be the nail in the coffin for them really.

Things aren't too bad with the steel mills in town. Stelco was hit hard last year (800 in October, 200 in November) with no real time frame for any of them getting recalled. They've shut down 3 of their 4 hot mills & only have 1 coke oven running. Dofasco let all their casuals go (I'm included in that statistic) and is forcing salaried employees to work a 4 day week and the hourly are forced to take a drop day once every 2 weeks. They all have to burn a holiday for the drop day. This is going to mean that come the summer nobody will have any vacation time left.

[SpotTheCat]

Sorry to hear that, hoser, it's definitely time to move on career wise.
I'm applying for aerospace engineering jobs. I was very relieved to hear how much obama supports the space program. Even if I don't do any work on it, it will still ease some stress off of the job market.

There are a LOT more job postings now than there were 2-3, perhaps even 4-5 months ago in my field, that's for sure. I think the aerospace industry had the jump on the recession, I found very few job postings in September/October compared to now. A few locations in my area are easing off of their ~18month hiring freeze policies.

[YBK]

Wow, I haven't been on these forums for a long long time and now I get an email notification! Haha!

Well, I'm an accounting student. Worked at an Auditing firm for the Australian government for a year and a few months at the start of my degree.

[Corrado]

Corrado, I know ti's not your fault, but I think this new SmartZone webmail sucks.

Wat? SmartZone? We handle straight OWA/MAPI/POP/IMAP and SharePoint.

https://webmail.hmc1.comcast.net is our URL. The other stuff may be for Velodrome, which is the consumer side of the new E-Mail stuff.

[BobTheBacterium]

I'm not sure you can call it what I do for a living since the department decided to not fund me this semester, but I am a grad student in Microbiology.

Maybe Obama can throw a few more dollars our way!

[derFunkenstein]

The other stuff may be for Velodrome, which is the consumer side of the new E-Mail stuff.

Yeah, that's why I said I know it isn't your fault. And it still sucks.

[jobodaho]

Currently I'm a full time architecture student with three months left before graduating. I will be starting at a firm in May, I'm really looking forward to it.

Any other architecture students? Any registered architects? I know there are a few around here.

[VaTech Hokie]

[Removed quote, didn't realize this one had been brought back from so long ago .

Currently, I am a mech. design engineer for a gas turbine manufacturer. I have been thinking about going back to school to get an MS in biomedical engineering. My degree was in aero, but it doesn't look like any of the biomed grad programs are too particular, as long as you have an engineering degree.

[dustyjamessutton]

I'm a beef cattle rancher. In my free time I plan to do some computer repair work on the side. I worked 2 years as a pc repair technician for a small outfit, and have 1 year of Cisco training, which isn't much. Also have worked at Macy's department stores as a men's furnishings salesperson. lol.

[henry44]

Currently, I teach mathematics at a local community college, own a small computer business (Small Bytes Computers), and am a Ph.D. student (NSF grant supported, thanks all you tax payers, defending in 18 months). In the past, I have worked commercial construction, been a farrier, taught middle and high school mathematics, and owned a feed store.

[Hoser]

Any other architecture students? Any registered architects? I know there are a few around here.

I took architecture for 1.5 years at college. I got discouraged after the first year because when I went to start looking for a job nobody would give me anything above Sr. Drafter unless I went to Uni and took Architectural Engineering. I could have gotten the drafters job right out of high school, and I didn't have the money to go to university, so I gave up on it.

[barleyguy]

As long as we're reviving an old thread... I just registered here, though I've been lurking for years.

I'm a software engineer. Most of my career I've been writing software for satellite communications. I also dabble in recording and audio engineering. Someday I may swap my primary career with my hobby and become an audio engineer that dabbles in software.

[lordT]

I am a programmer with a focus on the server side.

[roont]

"IT Client Support Services" is what my business card says
im just desktop support for an office of aprox 250-300 people. Parmalat, the dairy company. if youve had black diamond cheese, i most likely fixed the computer of the guy who made the ad that promted you to buy that cheese hahahaha. altho i think there was recently a recall of one of our products

fix printers, map network drives, install windows a dozen times a week. all that lowly stuff.

i took school specifically for networking, but we have a seperate network management team (2 guys) here.

[krazyboi]

Network Technician for a telecom company. At my work it reminds you of Office Space.
We do provisioning and troubleshooting work with the outside technicians, so the hours are good. I got an older ‘half cubicle’ (where managers can see from the shoulders up) but they give us nice computers and 2-22” monitors to work on-I can’t complain.

[Rakhmaninov3]

Second-year medical student in Chicago. I hope there's enough capital out there for me to get loans for next year! lol

[lex-ington]

"IT Client Support Services" is what my business card says
im just desktop support for an office of aprox 250-300 people. Parmalat, the dairy company. if youve had black diamond cheese, i most likely fixed the computer of the guy who made the ad that promted you to buy that cheese hahahaha. altho i think there was recently a recall of one of our products

fix printers, map network drives, install windows a dozen times a week. all that lowly stuff.

i took school specifically for networking, but we have a seperate network management team (2 guys) here.

Which Parmalat office you work in?

[Turkina]

I have been thinking about going back to school to get an MS in biomedical engineering. My degree was in aero, but it doesn't look like any of the biomed grad programs are too particular, as long as you have an engineering degree.

A lot of top (or just plain uppity) programs want you to have had some biology or organic chemistry before beginning a BME graduate degree. They may also force you to take a life sciences bridge course. I have an MS in BME, but am considering going back (to a more prestigious program) for my PhD, and I know a lot of departments will hate that I never took graduate biology or chemistry (I had some undergraduate biochemistry and physiology). I hate squishy stuff, but like medical devices, assistive technology, and rehabilitation engineering. I didn't find a lot of job opportunities in those areas, however.

Back on topic, I am currently a software engineer in the defense research industry, but I've been lots of other kinds of engineer (research, systems, analog circuits), and worked in IT for a while.

[Usacomp2k3]

Business Planning Analyst is my official title.

[njenabnit]

I am currently a undergrad student set to graduate in December with an MIS degree. I have an internship lined up with Devon Energy here in OKC for the summer that will hopefully turn around into a full-time job.

[heyal256]

I am a Network Administrator.
What this means at my company is that anything dealing with a server winds up being the responsibility of my dept (even if the problem is an application that is supported by our developers).

[bthylafh]

I'm a computer janitor.

[Captain Ned]

Still doing the same thing I was 5.5 years ago when I first replied to this thread (with a promotion & a job upgrade), although the financial regulatory business isn't anywhere near as mundane as it was in June 2003. I actually have to work for my cheese now.

I also noticed that HWCBN posted in this thread.

[AMD Damo]

I'm a full time student doing his last year in high school (Year 12 starting on monday O_o), otherwise my casual job is at the Flemington Race Course (home of the Melbourne Cup) doing the continous replay and getting payed a large amount for pressing buttons, I'm on $22 an hour at 17 lol.

[herothezero]

User Support Manager for a staff of five techs that support 700 users in North America. Not much hands-on IT work anymore, but increasingly project-oriented tasks in addition to management duties.

Hoping to get a project management certification in the fall and maybe change careers in 2010...if there's any jobs left at all in this country.

[BobTheBacterium]

I hate squishy stuff

You suck

[shaq_mobile]

i work tech support full time at Good Samaritan Hospital for Samaritan Health Services. They through me around to all the sites in the Willamette Valley though. Me and like 9 other techs support 6000 users. Strangely we have far less problems with microsoft products than I expected. Almost all of the problems we have are with users doing stuff wrong or just not having the proper privelages.

on the side im a gay gigilo. im not gay, but 20 bucks is 20 bucks.

[ryko]

i am a dog-walking, computer repairing, web designing, house painter....anybody want one of my jobs?

[Jive]

Well, i'm a full-time student attending UC Berkeley with a major in Economics. Hopefully getting into banking/finance when i graduate. Schooled just started back up again and im back to a no-frillz life full of studying, and... studying. Glad i aint a med student like some of you other guys here.

[Momento Mori]

I am a computer programmer with a bachelors in computer science and work for a large automotive parts supplier. I do a lot of SQL work using both MS SQL Server and Oracle. The primary languages I tend to use at work are ASP.NET, C#, C++, Classic ASP 3.0, vbscript, javascript and once in a blue moon Java.