Gamers With Jobs

So, where do you work?

I'll start:

Media Consultant, London.

Anyone else?

http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/phpBB2...

See the above link for everyones jobs Luther! or look further down the page

Oops - guess enthusiasm got the better of me.

Welcome to the fourms Luther

I am a meat popsicle.

EDIT - just realized when this thread was made.

Still an intern after 17 years? Ouch lol.

MaxShrek wrote:

I am a meat popsicle.

Max are you....are you okay? Have the bots taken you??

I don't think so. But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

I think it would be fun to talk about what careers / jobs we had and have had since the creation of this abandoned thread. Anyone interested?

mrtomaytohead wrote:

I think it would be fun to talk about what careers / jobs we had and have had since the creation of this abandoned thread. Anyone interested?

I’d be down but would want to make sure that doesn’t annoy the mods.

When this thread was made I wasn’t even married (15 years this November).
This thread is older then some members.

I'm down. I've been on the site since January of 2003, within a week of it coming online, I think. In that time I worked in education, was in charge of 20 different departments at a college, and then unemployed. I now manage a tattoo shop in Oakland, Ca and am apprenticing under the owner while I do that. My three kids are all younger than my time on this site. My Marriage is younger than my time on this the site, and will soon be over. It's been a long time.

jdzappa wrote:
mrtomaytohead wrote:

I think it would be fun to talk about what careers / jobs we had and have had since the creation of this abandoned thread. Anyone interested?

I’d be down but would want to make sure that doesn’t annoy the mods.

No way, this is wholesome and I suspect Luther_Blissett will not mind us taking this thread elsewhere. Please continue!

Would like to post, but will need to look at my citizenship application papers to keep track of all of them properly because I've held dozens of jobs in the last 18 years (I'm not a job hopper, honest. I just rarely only work one job at a time so there's tons of overlap).

When this thread was created, I was 32 and working for a Non-Departmental Public Body as a policy adviser. Since then I've worked as;

- In-house Consultant at another NDPB;
- A management consultant;
- A project manager;
- Unemployed/'freelance' consultant;
- A project manager (again) before being promoted to run the project management team

It feels like those 18 years have flown by. Had I known how quickly even the tedious bits would pass, I think I'd have made better use of that time.

I'm just upset that Luther didn't search the forum before he started the thread with a duplicate...

Whew, I had a hard time remembering, but I was just starting out in a job selling water heaters over the phone and wondering how the crap I was gonna support a family. I landed in IT a couple years later and now I manage service operations for an IT company.

This thread was created a month before my wife plucked up the courage to ask me out (yes. yes I know) She had to ask me as she's still so far out of my league I would never had asked her in a million years. Married 12 of those years now though, so must be doing something right.

I am still more or less in the same line of work though. A little more senior these days, but it's essentially the same job.

When this thread started I was 22. I am now 40.

In that time I have:

Been deployed twice (Bosnia '03 - '04 - 9 months and then Iraq '05 - '07 - 22 months).
Got my undergrad in Psych.
Left the Army Guard.
Started working in mental health.
Beat alcohol abuse.
Got married.
Got my Masters.
Got my clinical license.

Now I work in an emergency department as part of the hospital's psychiatry service doing crisis assessments.

Reaper81 wrote:

When this thread started I was 22. I am now 40.

Yay, we are the same age!

When this thread was created, I was working substitute teacher jobs after recently getting my master's degree. A month later, I would get a long term sub job that lasted to the end of the school year, and then I got a permanent job at a different school.

I've been there ever since.

When this thread was created, I was 20 and starting my transfer to a university closer to home. Since then I've had the same job in the same place but for three different companies. I don't think I'm doing it right.

Crazy, January 2003. Had just met my wife to be a few months before. Was still in college studying computer information systems, learning to program. And working my crappy movie theater job that I occasionally still miss.

Since then I've moved several times, had some other crappy jobs, then internships, graduated, got married, discovered GWJ, then moved to a new state, adopted 2 cats, one cat died, adopted another cat, lost my 2 remaining grandparents, moved to another new state, bought a house finally, got a good job in my field, had a baby, got a better job in my field, turned 40, had another baby, and here we are.

I'll do the short version, With the job I had in 20043 when this thread was created, I think I was working at either a hotel in the banquet's and catering, or back at Starbucks for a bit part time while going to community college for pre-reqs.

I do media and graphic design for a startup financial data/info site these days.

Amoebic wrote:

I'll do the short version, With the job I had in 20043 when this thread was created, I think I was working at either a hotel in the banquet's and catering, or back at Starbucks for a bit part time while going to community college for pre-reqs.

I do media and graphic design for a startup financial data/info site these days.

~18000 years is a long time for recorded history to stay accurate, but can you tell us if things get better in the near future?

I was in year 5 of my career and 170lbs lighter. My wife and I had been married for 5 years. Geeeeeezzzzzzz.

Having not crossed paths with Reaper81 on the game side of things for ages, I didn't have a total grasp on where he was at in life. That is an awesome path Reaper! Honestly, I just remember you in the guard and going all in on WoW when that came out. Always been a presence on the site that I perk up when I see their name. Maybe it's the ol' fan fict that does it.

absurddoctor wrote:
Amoebic wrote:

I'll do the short version, With the job I had in 20043 when this thread was created, I think I was working at either a hotel in the banquet's and catering, or back at Starbucks for a bit part time while going to community college for pre-reqs.

I do media and graphic design for a startup financial data/info site these days.

~18000 years is a long time for recorded history to stay accurate, but can you tell us if things get better in the near future?

If futurama has taught me anything, it's to not meddle in the past lest I become my own grandfather, so I'll let fate tell you that story in it's own time!

Within a year of this thread being created I got married, drop out of college, and picked up work as a Janitor. Crazy time.

I then picked up law enforcement credentials for the National Park Service.
Worked as an Law Enforcement Officer at Mount Rainier and then Yellowstone.
Took a break to join my wife while she served with the US Army in Germany.
Had a kid.
Worked one more season of law enforcement in Yellowstone's backcountry.
Went back to school
Had two more kids.
Earned a bachelors in Software Engineering Technology.
Got a software engineering job.
Left the software engineering job to stay at home with the kids.

Ah. Well... I attended Juilliard... I'm a graduate of the Harvard business school. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that. I've seen the Excorcist 167 times, and it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it.

Since this thread started (and the 17 years I have been a member):

I have worked in a variety of blue collar jobs
Moved several times
My youngest was born in '06
Got divorced for the second time
Picked up my A+ certification
Went to white collar career
Got married again
Went back to school to pick up my Cyber Security Degree (which I will receive in July of this year)
Turned 47 (73 baby!)

MaxShrek wrote:

Ah. Well... I attended Juilliard... I'm a graduate of the Harvard business school. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that. I've seen the Excorcist 167 times, and it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it.

Hah! I can recite this by heart! Do I have to say your name three times now?

Druidpeak wrote:

Having not crossed paths with Reaper81 on the game side of things for ages, I didn't have a total grasp on where he was at in life. That is an awesome path Reaper! Honestly, I just remember you in the guard and going all in on WoW when that came out.

Likewise! Reaper has always been among my favorite people this site has brought into my life, and I'm thrilled to hear how well he's been doing in the years since he was my fearless WoW guild leader.

As for myself, this thread is making me feel a bit boring!

When this thread was created I was 21 years old and in my third year as a computer science student at UC Davis. The majority of the big changes in my life happened in 2004 (specifically in June!), when I graduated, started the job I still have to this day, and married my wife (who had been my girlfriend since I was a high school freshman in 1997). I then found GWJ Radio in the fall of 2005, joined the forum a month or two later, and that's about it other than buying our house in 2010.

I guess I have had a few different job titles though -- when I was hired at my company they were in the middle of starting a new office, so I was technically a customer service agent for about a month until they were ready to start the new technical team. Once they were ready, I was a junior IT administrator for about a year and a half, then I was moved to being a junior software engineer, then just a plain old software engineer, and then after refusing a few times to take on a management position, I've been technically a senior software engineer for what is now the majority of the time I've been with the company (probably ten out of those seventeen years, I suppose).

(Edit: To be clear, I don't take the value of this kind of stability for granted at all! I deeply appreciate it, and the fun, comfortable life it allows my wife and me to enjoy. Just, it feels a bit wild to consider how much change most people generally experience in that kind of timeframe by comparison.)