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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: noisyturtle on Mon, 05 November 2012, 19:20:04
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What are your dayjobs when you're not lurking GH threads?
Student of game design - intern at (gaming company(varies))
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Healthcare Informatics Consultant =)
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datacenter tech
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I don't work when I'm going to school but in the summer I design windows n stuff
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curves are a HUGE pain in the ****
Those two pics were last summer. This summer I worked on a job for a hospital where ALL the windows were clad in .060" stainless steel. ANOTHER HUGE pain in the **** since it wraps around each of the vertical and horizontal mullions EVERYWHERE
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curves are a HUGE pain in the ****
Not for me...
Agreed. I like curves. *purr*
When I'm not at school I'm a tech monkey at the high school I go to. We installed speakers and projectors in every classroom over the summer.
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curves are a HUGE pain in the ****
Not for me...
well... if i find the right girl she just might let you be a pain in her........
nvm.
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I was recently fired from a part-time job at KFC. So now I'm just a high school student again.
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Student 12 hours a week, Part-Time Network Engineer 22 hours a week, 7-6 M-F.
wooooo! Free weekends!!
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Student - Eventually going to be a social worker.. unless I decide I'd rather do social science.
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data entry at the Breck Ski & Ride School :)
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I wish I could go skiing again...it is all ice hills in Wisconsin. Colorado gets all the nice powder...:(
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internship at a research lab.. every time I'm doing an experiment in a hazmat suit I worry that there's some CC sale going on.
I'm addicted.
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Software engineer.
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engineer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:F100_F-15_engine.JPG)
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Sweet an aerospace engineer! *takes you to career day* did is a gui I met onwine, he a fly-ey thingy maker!
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Mechanical Engineering student with 6 months left on my degree. Currently in the middle of a 7 month fulltime placement at a coal mine.
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freelance web developer here
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I've always wondered what people do around here.
A bit different to all the engineers and tech-oriented people - I'm in my third year of a double degree in Law and Media, working as a Paralegal on my days off uni.
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sleeping
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MArch in Architecture, haven't sat my part3 exam yet so not technically an architect here in the UK. I "work" at this part time, three days a week.
Self taught jeweller-ish. I "work" at this part time, 4 days a week.
Studding gemmology with the GEM-A as an ODL student in the evenings.
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Software engineer here.
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SysAdmin and Infrastructure Analyst.
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Air traffic controller here
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3D Visual Effects Artist, contract work blows :(
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IT/Tech guy. But in reality, I do NOTHING.
Just like Office Space:
(http://getyourbizsavvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/office_space.jpg)
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Remote Systems Administrator for PACS systems.
aka remote support for hospitals across USA, Canada, Australia, UK, etc.
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IT/Tech guy. But in reality, I do NOTHING.
LOL.
Just like http://bofh.ntk.net/BOFH/index.php (http://bofh.ntk.net/BOFH/index.php) then?
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Overworked software developer.
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IT Guy/Software Dev/Sysadmin for the college i recently graduated from until I can find a permanent position. I really like my job, and they've offered me the chance to make it permanent but they're offering crap wages.
If it involves computers, i probably do something involving it, but i'm not particularly skilled in anything.
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Programme Director
Doesn't help a lot, does it...
Healthcare Informatics Consultant =)
What does one of you do? Genuinely curious...
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Technical Design Manager for a design company.
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IT Guy/Software Dev/Sysadmin for the college i recently graduated from until I can find a permanent position. I really like my job, and they've offered me the chance to make it permanent but they're offering crap wages.
If it involves computers, i probably do something involving it, but i'm not particularly skilled in anything.
Do you know already if you're more into development or infrastructure?
That's the important part. If you just graduated, you still have a 'buffer' of time to choose - so, relax... that feeling of not being specially skilled is usual.
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IT Guy/Software Dev/Sysadmin for the college i recently graduated from until I can find a permanent position. I really like my job, and they've offered me the chance to make it permanent but they're offering crap wages.
If it involves computers, i probably do something involving it, but i'm not particularly skilled in anything.
Do you know already if you're more into development or infrastructure?
That's the important part. If you just graduated, you still have a 'buffer' of time to choose - so, relax... that feeling of not being specially skilled is usual.
No clue. I enjoy both a lot. I've worked in server rooms during internships, and my main job here is to keep the in-house applications and C# web-site running) but I do other things, such as set up IIS, fix computers, and the like. I also have an interest in security, and i've been to a couple conferences/competitions (nice avatar btw). So I'm really not sure where I'll end up. I'll probably end up taking whatever job looks fun at the time.
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Full time college student, and I work for the school's safety program 2x a week.
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Full time "PC Network support tech" but in reality I network together flight simulators on a global scale. Not as cool as it sounds but I make 10k less than a guy I can run circles around both IRL and work related. Contracting is bull****. I might start my own E-sports bar next year if I get a good business plan together and some investors.
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Full time "PC Network support tech" but in reality I network together flight simulators on a global scale. Not as cool as it sounds but I make 10k less than a guy I can run circles around both IRL and work related. Contracting is bull****. I might start my own E-sports bar next year if I get a good business plan together and some investors.
The pub where they go at the homestory cup looks like a cool place,
there should be more places like this
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Full time "PC Network support tech" but in reality I network together flight simulators on a global scale. Not as cool as it sounds but I make 10k less than a guy I can run circles around both IRL and work related. Contracting is bull****. I might start my own E-sports bar next year if I get a good business plan together and some investors.
Sounds epic, I'd love to have more e-sports oriented bars around!
I'm a full time computer science student / amateur progamer (my dota2 team enters tournaments and gets **** on by pros) / 24/7 IT support line for my mom.
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No clue. I enjoy both a lot. I've worked in server rooms during internships, and my main job here is to keep the in-house applications and C# web-site running) but I do other things, such as set up IIS, fix computers, and the like. I also have an interest in security, and i've been to a couple conferences/competitions (nice avatar btw). So I'm really not sure where I'll end up. I'll probably end up taking whatever job looks fun at the time.
Looks a lot like me. Specially if you have the option of working with Windows and *nix, sysadmin is almost a description of what you said: from writing automation scripts to installing services, from replacing bad disks on a storage unit to manage account permissions.
Today I sold myself to the market and I also do user support (half the time, actually) but it is basically my job description.
I think for starters you're good as sysadmin.
Also, thanks for the cumpliment. I thought nobody would ever notice, let alone comment on my avatar :)
Full time "PC Network support tech" but in reality I network together flight simulators on a global scale. Not as cool as it sounds but I make 10k less than a guy I can run circles around both IRL and work related. Contracting is bull****. I might start my own E-sports bar next year if I get a good business plan together and some investors.
Being a contractor really sucks. I worked for some time as a contractor on a giant energy company and did the build-ups and Disaster recovery of their database clusters. I had the know-how, did the job and even created root cause documentation. My Team Leader knew sh*t about the actual work, got all the glory and made 3 to 4 times my wage, all because she was an employee.
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Looks a lot like me. Specially if you have the option of working with Windows and *nix, sysadmin is almost a description of what you said: from writing automation scripts to installing services, from replacing bad disks on a storage unit to manage account permissions.
Today I sold myself to the market and I also do user support (half the time, actually) but it is basically my job description.
I think for starters you're good as sysadmin.
Also, thanks for the cumpliment. I thought nobody would ever notice, let alone comment on my avatar :)
Yeah. that's kinda where i've been headed. I do windows/linux and servers and desktop.
It's one thing saying you do sysadminnery, and another to actually do it.
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Well up until about 6 weeks ago I was a handmade log home builder for a little over 4 years (https://plus.google.com/u/0/113341414852320874393/posts).
Now I am back in the city and building stucco and vinyl palaces for the middle class...
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I work in well intervention. Completely non-IT related.
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Computer science student, part time customer service/tech support for a credit union.
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Construction.
Going back to school soon tho.
Not sure what I want to study eventually.
Something that helps people tho, not just looking for a paycheck.
Maybe social worker.
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^ that's the spirit! :)
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Nice sig Batmann!
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Mad respect for anyone who does something / creates something with their hands. I lack all of that talent. So I have to do stuff on the computer (CAD / SolidWorks / Programming / etc). I work in IT management for web/mobile development.
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Professional typist, currently transcribing for an investigative company
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data entry at the Breck Ski & Ride School :)
I did that at Copper Mtn about a dozen years ago. Now I'm in pool/hottub maintenance/repair. I work with gas appliances also.
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Software engineer.
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Nice sig Batmann!
Thanks Jesus! (felt weird to type this!)
...btw an 8bits zombie Jesus instead of DK would be pretty fun
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I'm a glorified PC Janitor at a local tech shop. I do sales, repairs, installs, whatever else the boss doesn't want to do.
Most of my time is spent building and reformatting windows based PCs.
Needless to say, I aspire for something greater. I'd like to do more business with gaming machines, but all we ever sell is entry-level pentium/i3 builds and 600 dollar laptops.
I've got no formal training or degrees outside of my G12 High School Diploma, but I've been working on PCs formally for about 7 years now. Grew up with them.
I'd love to find a way to work from home (Even supplimentary) with my skillset, but I haven't found anything as far as home businesses over the internet that isn't done a million times and better or cheaper by somebody else. I wouldn't mind doing transcription work but the pay is **** for what I've found, and you need, at least, some basic training for it. I'm support a family of 4 at the moment so I can't just quit my job and go back to school. If I could get work writing articles for a tech blog, my old supervisor did that and made several hundred dollars a month (I make about 1700-1900 dollars a month as is, depending on hours. nothing incredible.)
So we soldier on, slapping keys and fielding phone calls of "where's the any key" day in and out, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, we soldier on.
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Software developer for a large agricultural company developing tools for emerging markets/crops within.
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all i do is win, win, win no matter what.
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auto tune is dead
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Tax Accountant
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auto tune is dead
tpain responds in 'Take Your Shirt Off'
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petey pablo was taking shirts off before t pain was even a thing
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Accountant/Office B!tch at a construction firm.
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Enterprise Software Developer.
Which means I deal with retards all day long that couldn't code their way out of a paper bag, and clients that couldn't agree on a spec if they had guns pointed at their heads.
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Engineer. I also work on airplane engines like Metaliqaz.
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I'm a developer for a major E-commerce company. Bit of a change of direction, my post grads are in Criminology. The only criminal thing in my workplace these days though is the hours. :)
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Previously a ME (HVAC design), now a Pharm-D.
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Previously a ME (HVAC design), now a Pharm-D.
Wow that's quite a career change. What is that, another 4 years of school AFTER your engineering degree? Crazy. Pharm-Ds make crazy money though. I see why you would do it.
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It/network admin/noob python programmer...
Anything computer related at my current employer.
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I just love how IT at certain places becomes... "Oh this plugs into the wall. Fix it!"
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I just love how IT at certain places becomes... "Oh this plugs into the wall. Fix it!"
Pretty much
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heh. We get clocks and personal cell phones down in our office when people don't know how to work them or their clock is 30 seconds off. -_-
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A clock is a precision tool, and must be calibrated properly. Please make sure to affix a calibration sticker with an expiration date.
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Aerospace Engineer by degree, Renewable energy - wind energy sector, projects and contracts engineer
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Ours link into a network school wide. The clocks all go back to a central server that is linked to the NTP. heh.
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so now we have two occupation threads. nice.
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Graduate advisor to incoming freshman students. Also a MBA-law student. Want to be a patent attorney.
Work as a network-IT consultant for local businesses as a source of side income and weekend projects.
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Attorney - currently at a non-profit firm for low income people
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I'm a functional systems analysts for the same company that Vyr1s works for... working on PACS infrastructure (Oracle, VMWare, storage, disaster recovery, etc)
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I'm a functional systems analysts for the same company that Vyr1s works for... working on PACS infrastructure (Oracle, VMWare, storage, disaster recovery, etc)
Is Oracle and Disaster Recovery about the same thing about now? :)) That has got to be a mess...
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I work in outside sales for an automation controls company. We fabricate custom control panels for industrial automation applications. Primarily oilfield related.
I am also the "IT Specialist" here. I'm required to do desktop support, as well as some client/server admin. But I don't really like that side as much as I like network admin. That used to be my bread and butter when I worked for a telecom company.
But oilfield sales provides for my family better than telecom grunt. :)
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Enterprise Software Developer.
Which means I deal with retards all day long that couldn't code their way out of a paper bag, and clients that couldn't agree on a spec if they had guns pointed at their heads.
A well known quote (It think it's know and something like that):
1. A client does not know what he wants
2. Even if he knows what he wants, he does not know how to tell/describe it
3. And if your are lucky enough to find a client that knows what he wants and how to tell it, he will change his mind anyway!
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Software developer but I don't know if I'm going to stay in the field. Looking in to taking some time of and going to S. Korea to teach English if I can.
Enterprise Software Developer.
Which means I deal with retards all day long that couldn't code their way out of a paper bag, and clients that couldn't agree on a spec if they had guns pointed at their heads.
A well known quote (It think it's know and something like that):
1. A client does not know what he wants
2. Even if he knows what he wants, he does not know how to tell/describe it
3. And if your are lucky enough to find a client that knows what he wants and how to tell it, he will change his mind anyway!
I'll take #3 any day of the week. Having people know what they want but either describe something else or just babble nonsense is annoying for all. You're mad because you don't have clarity and the client is mad because they aren't getting what they want.
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Just the bottom of the IT totem pole.
Geek Squad. :-[
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Attorney - currently at a non-profit firm for low income people
Software developer but I don't know if I'm going to stay in the field. Looking in to taking some time of and going to S. Korea to teach English if I can.
"Teach English, EHhh?" in Korea? hm.......
That's like saying you're going to Cambodia to be a diving instructor. :cool:
Enjoy your sex tour.... you perv... :)) :))
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Attorney - currently at a non-profit firm for low income people
Software developer but I don't know if I'm going to stay in the field. Looking in to taking some time of and going to S. Korea to teach English if I can.
"Teach English, EHhh?" in Korea? hm.......
That's like saying you're going to Cambodia to be a diving instructor. :cool:
Enjoy your sex tour.... you perv... :)) :))
Not why I'm going, but if you're out at sea, might as well have you're line out and see what bites. :cool:
More for food and a way to get to see other parts of the world. That, and desk jobs suck a lot more than I could have ever imagined.
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Attorney - currently at a non-profit firm for low income people
Software developer but I don't know if I'm going to stay in the field. Looking in to taking some time of and going to S. Korea to teach English if I can.
"Teach English, EHhh?" in Korea? hm.......
That's like saying you're going to Cambodia to be a diving instructor. :cool:
Enjoy your sex tour.... you perv... :)) :))
Not why I'm going, but if you're out at sea, might as well have you're line out and see what bites. :cool:
More for food and a way to get to see other parts of the world. That, and desk jobs suck a lot more than I could have ever imagined.
uh huh... yea yea... sure sure... of course....;D
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Attorney - currently at a non-profit firm for low income people
Software developer but I don't know if I'm going to stay in the field. Looking in to taking some time of and going to S. Korea to teach English if I can.
"Teach English, EHhh?" in Korea? hm.......
That's like saying you're going to Cambodia to be a diving instructor. :cool:
Enjoy your sex tour.... you perv... :)) :))
Not why I'm going, but if you're out at sea, might as well have you're line out and see what bites. :cool:
More for food and a way to get to see other parts of the world. That, and desk jobs suck a lot more than I could have ever imagined.
uh huh... yea yea... sure sure... of course....;D
One thing for sure, if tp4tissue goes to Korea, we all know what he will be up to!!! :p :p :p
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A well known quote (It think it's know and something like that):
1. A client does not know what he wants
2. Even if he knows what he wants, he does not know how to tell/describe it
3. And if your are lucky enough to find a client that knows what he wants and how to tell it, he will change his mind anyway!
It's even worse than that. Our main client can't even agree what their business practices are, independent of software.
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My most funny moment was when a client call me saying that he has a problem with an interface. After a few questions I realise that the client talks about an interface he does not have (it was still in beta). So I mention it to him but he is still convince that the interface is down, but he precise that it's only down at a certain moment of the day, around 12h.
Being myself convince that he didnt have this particular interface, I ask him to look if it was possible that his interface was "going to lunch" at 12h.
In the end I was right, it was a clerk that manually copied the information between different systems and everyone was sure it was automated but went down at lunch time everyday and on weekends! ;D
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Software developer but I don't know if I'm going to stay in the field. Looking in to taking some time of and going to S. Korea to teach English if I can.
I have a couple friends doing this. They're having a blast over there. But they're Asian so they kinda blend in until they talk and the Koreans realize they're American. If you're 6 foot tall white guy, you WILL have panties automatically.
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My most funny moment was when a client call me saying that he has a problem with an interface. After a few questions I realise that the client talks about an interface he does not have (it was still in beta). So I mention it to him but he is still convince that the interface is down, but he precise that it's only down at a certain moment of the day, around 12h.
Being myself convince that he didnt have this particular interface, I ask him to look if it was possible that his interface was "going to lunch" at 12h.
In the end I was right, it was a clerk that manually copied the information between different systems and everyone was sure it was automated but went down at lunch time everyday and on weekends! ;D
all that because this guy eats lunch at a different time than everyone else?
he must be the outcast..
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My most funny moment was when a client call me saying that he has a problem with an interface. After a few questions I realise that the client talks about an interface he does not have (it was still in beta). So I mention it to him but he is still convince that the interface is down, but he precise that it's only down at a certain moment of the day, around 12h.
Being myself convince that he didnt have this particular interface, I ask him to look if it was possible that his interface was "going to lunch" at 12h.
In the end I was right, it was a clerk that manually copied the information between different systems and everyone was sure it was automated but went down at lunch time everyday and on weekends! ;D
all that because this guy eats lunch at a different time than everyone else?
he must be the outcast..
That, or the nurses and physicians dont go eat all at the same time maybe??? :eek:
Who knows? :p
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Recently graduated University. Unemployed highschool teacher. Worked at a coffeeshop for a while, then Staples warehouse, then a steel factory, and now nothing again. Yea~~~
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Recently graduated University. Unemployed highschool teacher. Worked at a coffeeshop for a while, then Staples warehouse, then a steel factory, and now nothing again. Yea~~~
but for all that, you have an awesome keyboard no?
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I work in Litigation Support Technology also called Electronic Discovery and Review (eDiscovery)
think of searching through people's emails and electronically stored information on a massive scale (Terabytes). My job is a technology specialist; i work on a wide spectrum of software and services.
So learn to encrypt your documents people! home or work computers, use free PGP or TrueCrypt software. And if you work in an office and don't think it will happen to you, you would be surprised how many companies large and small have their employee's computers imaged and indexed without the employee even knowing.
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or just don't keep anything bad on your work machines
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Quality Assurance technician. Lowly occupation, but I'm going to school and I don't make too bad wages. My uncle is the CEO so they put me on salary :D
I wonder if ClickClack has a day job, or if you can really make a living on custom key caps o_0
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Graduate student during the weekdays, and lab associate for a biotech company some weekends or long breaks.
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I wonder if ClickClack has a day job, or if you can really make a living on custom key caps o_0
Of course he has a dayjob. He doesn't make that much from CC. The people that sell his CC profits more than he does, which is quite sad.
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Half trying to be witty, but yeah that is kind of sad Lol.
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Assistant professor of evolutionary biology
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Assistant professor of evolutionary biology
BURN THE HERETIC!
BURN HIS BOOKS!
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I work in Litigation Support Technology also called Electronic Discovery and Review (eDiscovery)
think of searching through people's emails and electronically stored information on a massive scale (Terabytes). My job is a technology specialist; i work on a wide spectrum of software and services.
So learn to encrypt your documents people! home or work computers, use free PGP or TrueCrypt software. And if you work in an office and don't think it will happen to you, you would be surprised how many companies large and small have their employee's computers imaged and indexed without the employee even knowing.
Wasn't expecting to see eDiscovery pop-up in this thread. And +1 to TrueCrypt.
I'm in IT, as well. I'll leave things general.
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Full time computer science student, and holding a part-time position as a software developer
Couldn't be happier, honestly
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Assistant professor of evolutionary biology
BURN THE HERETIC!
BURN HIS BOOKS!
So it goes
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Student, working retail at Frys electronics
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Full-time PoliSci student with a part-time job... Whatever little free time I have left (after tending to friends, family, outings, etc), I like to tinker around with my computer hardware. :)
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Recently graduated University. Unemployed highschool teacher. Worked at a coffeeshop for a while, then Staples warehouse, then a steel factory, and now nothing again. Yea~~~
Left my job working at a help desk over the last two years, sitting around with a 4 year old IT degree unemployed living at home. Good times.