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Offline Semaj

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« Reply #50 on: Thu, 03 November 2011, 01:07:33 »
I did two years of an Advanced Diploma in electronic, then did a trainee ship with an Electronics company. The went back to uni and did bachelor in IT, planing on starting a Master in IT next year. Working as Analyst Programmer now.

Offline glycolate

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« Reply #51 on: Fri, 04 November 2011, 06:49:56 »
stuck in retail as i wait for march to roll around to enlist.

you can be 18 and have a C average and get a 18 on your act,and you only have to pay 2k a year for college. I'm 23, test 90% or better on everything they throw at me,had a 3.2 gpa and they want me to pay 10k+ a year. but if i was 28,it'd be free.

so yea,waiting to go into the army to be an engineer or do something with intel.

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Offline Internetlad

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« Reply #52 on: Fri, 04 November 2011, 16:18:38 »
High school degree, work at a local tech store as a computer janitor. . . I mean technician.
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« Reply #53 on: Fri, 04 November 2011, 16:32:33 »
No degree. I'm a "service clerk" at a local market. which is a nice word for the store *****.

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« Reply #54 on: Fri, 04 November 2011, 16:58:28 »
Msc information technology......


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« Reply #55 on: Fri, 04 November 2011, 19:08:02 »
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« Reply #56 on: Fri, 04 November 2011, 19:40:23 »
Associate in Science with certificates in ecology and fisheries and wildlife.  Working on my wildlife biology major.

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« Reply #57 on: Sat, 05 November 2011, 00:59:07 »
Currently all I have is completion of high school. But next year I'm hopefully going to study a Diploma of Engineering at a college near my house which gets me right into the 2nd year of a Bachelors in Engineering Science (a 3 year course) which can get me into the 4th year of any of 8 degrees in various engineering fields. I know I want to go into engineering but I'm a little blurry on the specifics of what I want to major in. For the most part Mechanical, Electrical, Software and Systems engineering all interest me and I could also choose to go into robotics which is pretty awesome, but I'd imagine is really just a collective effort of the 4 fields above in practice.
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« Reply #58 on: Sat, 05 November 2011, 03:11:49 »
I have a Master degree in My Own Domain.

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« Reply #59 on: Sun, 06 November 2011, 10:49:51 »
I hold a BS in biochem. The work I do is more or less proof reading/quality assurance of user entered medical records.
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« Reply #60 on: Sun, 06 November 2011, 23:42:38 »
Amateur geekhack lurker.

BS in Computer Science, work at Caltrans primarily doing GIS related software development with a small sprinkling of server administration.
According to my admin coworkers, I'm almost one of them. Apparently I need to corrupt a filesystem or delete /etc/passwd to be truly qualified...

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« Reply #61 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 00:43:03 »
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I lie on my user entered medical records.

Sorry.

In fact once I got thrown out of a Red Cross blood drive because I refused to give my SSN.  They used to print it on the blood bag.  Not especially great security at the Red Cross.
Ya gotta look out for your self, no one else is ya know.

About the med records... they're copy/pasted from a hospital's electronic system by our data entry team. I check them over before they're sent to our doctors and reviewed for medicare compliance.
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« Reply #62 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 01:13:13 »
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Amateur geekhack lurker.

BS in Computer Science, work at Caltrans primarily doing GIS related software development with a small sprinkling of server administration.
According to my admin coworkers, I'm almost one of them. Apparently I need to corrupt a filesystem or delete /etc/passwd to be truly qualified...

One of the best things about working in a CS related field is that "****ups" are expected, and if you don't **** up once in awhile then you're doing it wrong.
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« Reply #63 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 08:27:05 »
The true sign of an IT master is to **** it so completely that it is totally unfixable and show the client proof that it's all their fault because they didn't manage their systems better and all the hardware's fault because they didn't buy a support contract.
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« Reply #64 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 11:44:49 »
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The true sign of an IT master is to **** it so completely that it is totally unfixable and show the client proof that it's all their fault because they didn't manage their systems better and all the hardware's fault because they didn't buy a support contract.

Hah, that sounds a little... depressing? In a way. I'm sort of at a loss as to how I could accomplish that.

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« Reply #65 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 11:56:54 »
Well, it starts with having hardware in situations it was never designed for to begin with.

True story:  Company had a cluster running against some HP storageworks SAN.  The SAN was not validated for clusters and when I got to the documentation there were specific warnings against even trying it.  The whole thing was already messed up and I was called in to fix it.  Due to a severe lack of documentation on the implementation as it stood I went in blind and ended up wiping the data completely.  Since it was already gone I moved forward with trying to get their 'original' config working so we could restore from backup.  Started by updating the firmware on all the various parts since that was necessary to get HP support and replacement disks for the failed units.  Next step was to show them that the configuration they wanted was completely impossible now with the new firmware (it programmatically disallowed the config that was possible before) and that it was documented as not working in the old firmware.  Then my favorite part was when they let me know there was no backup and I was in deep.  That lasted 5 seconds before I whipped out the contract they signed that stated they had full backups and I could not be held liable for anything that happened to their data.
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« Reply #66 on: Tue, 08 November 2011, 02:10:02 »
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Offline dicho

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« Reply #67 on: Tue, 08 November 2011, 06:03:44 »
I am a PhD candidate on Music Composition, at Universidade Federal da Bahia (Salvador/Brazil).
I am working at musical data visualization projects with the Genos research group.

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« Reply #68 on: Wed, 09 November 2011, 16:14:33 »
I'm a lawyer (BA in political science and a JD).  I'm also currently enrolled in a Master of Accounting program.
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« Reply #69 on: Wed, 09 November 2011, 23:45:48 »
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, specializing in mobile communications and microwave engineering.  Did that for a few years until the economy tanked, company went to ****.

For the last year I've switched back to what I grew up doing: fixing cars at the shop my dad's owned for over 35 years.  With cars becoming more dependent on electronics, and environmental regulations preventing electronics from being properly reliable, I've become the local specialist.  Other shops in the area send electronics to me all the time for repair; ECU's, instrument clusters, LCD panels, climate control units, etc.
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« Reply #70 on: Thu, 10 November 2011, 00:58:57 »
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Offline ThatBum

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« Reply #71 on: Sat, 12 November 2011, 06:11:57 »
In community college. Ultimately working towards an AA, but also trying picking up Telecommunications/Network Engineering degrees and certifications along the way. Shooting for an A+ and/or CCNA. Probably A+ first, as working on end devices seems better than working on intermediary devices to me. After all that's done, I suppose it's off to State, and then I don't know what. Probably should get a job at some point as well, if those certifications mean anything and aren't obsolete by the time I get around to it.

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« Reply #72 on: Tue, 22 November 2011, 12:04:58 »
Well I was going to university for bio-chemistry, then off to med school. Said **** that, got a job at the hospital reading EKG's (at 19 years old) and am now about to enter paramedic school and could not be more excited!

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« Reply #73 on: Tue, 22 November 2011, 16:01:07 »
When I graduated there was a check box for MA or MS, and I chose MS. However, they gave me a MA. Bastards.
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« Reply #74 on: Tue, 22 November 2011, 17:18:04 »
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Just drop the patients off with Elbowglue.  Let him deal with all the blood and bodily fluids.

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« Reply #75 on: Tue, 22 November 2011, 17:26:04 »
I have no degree. I have an industrial drafter formation and I've been steel detailer/project manager for 3 years then I learned programming in my free time and became a full time programmer for a steel detailing company. The internet is my teacher.
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« Reply #76 on: Wed, 23 November 2011, 08:27:17 »
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The internet is my teacher.

Ha.  I have a History degree (I wanted to be a teacher), and I maintain an application I wrote as part of my job.  Long story on how I got there, but you're right about the internet teacher thing.

The ironic thing is that I initially went to school for CS.


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« Reply #77 on: Wed, 23 November 2011, 10:32:11 »
BS in Comp Sci.

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« Reply #78 on: Wed, 23 November 2011, 12:44:49 »
No degree; Network Engineer
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« Reply #79 on: Wed, 23 November 2011, 13:05:26 »
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« Reply #80 on: Wed, 23 November 2011, 20:07:04 »
Degree: BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. I focus more on digital systems/software/DSP
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« Reply #81 on: Fri, 25 November 2011, 07:30:19 »
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About time we get somebody who actually knows something.

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« Reply #82 on: Fri, 25 November 2011, 09:29:53 »
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Hardware is significantly harder than software. Take it from an engineer.
I see what you did there ;-)

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« Reply #83 on: Fri, 25 November 2011, 10:12:29 »
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I see what you did there ;-)

Also, let me show you my Harddrive.
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« Reply #84 on: Sat, 03 December 2011, 13:14:56 »
BA in Communication Studies  and (shockingly, I know!) currently unemployed.  Only ended up with that because I had no idea that there was an option to not go to college and had to just  get through something in the four years that were budgeted for.  Started with a broadcast journalism interest until I discovered that news was just another entertainment venue.  I somehow ended up with the credits for the BA but zero usable focus in the real world and nothing on my resume of much use now that I'm nearly 40.

That may be my own fault though for spending the first decade out of college being an exotic dancer...   Thinking I may be able to scratch out a living as a writer of some sort, and currently using whatever skills are available to me to do everything from landscaping and sprinkler installation to appliance repair to writing and directing gay porn.  Yeah, I could use a direction or two...


Okay, now I'm depressed.  WHY OH WHY didn't I stick with programming ?  (I think I might have if I hadn't been in the Apple camp in the 80's - I did have a very good knack for it -  at least through basic and Pascal....  Oh GOD I am really OLD >"Basic and Pascal".  o_O Yikes. Maybe I should go make some use of myself and sit with the OWS folks getting arrested....)
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« Reply #85 on: Sat, 03 December 2011, 14:28:29 »
Exotic dancing is WAY more interesting than programming. How 'bout giving all the Geekhackers one last virtual dance? ;)

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« Reply #86 on: Sat, 03 December 2011, 15:14:10 »
I have a friend that goes gay for pay in porn.  Seems like a pretty easy gig, to be honest.

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« Reply #87 on: Sat, 03 December 2011, 15:25:35 »
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WHY OH WHY didn't I stick with programming ?
Why would you?

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« Reply #88 on: Sun, 04 December 2011, 17:05:21 »
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BA in Communication Studies  and (shockingly, I know!) currently unemployed.  Only ended up with that because I had no idea that there was an option to not go to college and had to just  get through something in the four years that were budgeted for.  Started with a broadcast journalism interest until I discovered that news was just another entertainment venue.  I somehow ended up with the credits for the BA but zero usable focus in the real world and nothing on my resume of much use now that I'm nearly 40.

That may be my own fault though for spending the first decade out of college being an exotic dancer...   Thinking I may be able to scratch out a living as a writer of some sort, and currently using whatever skills are available to me to do everything from landscaping and sprinkler installation to appliance repair to writing and directing gay porn.  Yeah, I could use a direction or two...


Okay, now I'm depressed.  WHY OH WHY didn't I stick with programming ?  (I think I might have if I hadn't been in the Apple camp in the 80's - I did have a very good knack for it -  at least through basic and Pascal....  Oh GOD I am really OLD >"Basic and Pascal".  o_O Yikes. Maybe I should go make some use of myself and sit with the OWS folks getting arrested....)

Judging on the length and depth of this post, you could have omitted the first sentence, and we would still know. At the very least, you have a wide, practical skill set.


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« Reply #89 on: Sun, 04 December 2011, 18:03:31 »
Ha ha ha...  

Wide?  Yes.
Practical?  Debatable.  
Lucrative?  Unfortunately, no.  Perhaps its the way I am applying it that is the problem...
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« Reply #90 on: Sun, 04 December 2011, 18:53:51 »
BS in Information Technology

...working at a help desk now

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« Reply #91 on: Sun, 04 December 2011, 18:57:47 »
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BS in Information Technology

...working at a help desk now

You need a lot of patience, good luck man. :-)
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« Reply #92 on: Sun, 04 December 2011, 22:37:38 »
I got a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering.
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« Reply #93 on: Mon, 05 December 2011, 02:03:26 »
BA in Media and Communication Science focusing on strategic communication. Also spent a year taking design, photography and a few other random courses. Managed to get a job after about 6 months as a copywriter at a web agency. For some clients we act more like an integrated marketing agency which means i end up doing pretty much everything from basic on-page SEO to press releases and TV ads.

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« Reply #94 on: Mon, 05 December 2011, 02:48:36 »
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BS in Information Technology

...working at a help desk now


I did that for a couple of years, I feel for you too.

BA in psych.  I do what I can to make sure people don't break the website of one of the worlds largest companies.  I help them collect data about visitors too.  That part is more related to the 'not breaking' part than metrics architecture, though.  I would like to do more with the data collection stuff in the future.  Its in high demand and really interesting.
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« Reply #95 on: Sun, 11 December 2011, 05:49:13 »
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Just curious.

Still engineering school for me.


Same here! Stuck on my engineering course! Haha!