What is your job?

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Ok, so those of you wish, share with us your job.

And break it down, no long technical titles. tell us what you do.

Also, do you love it? Hate it? Or get paid enough that it doesn't matter anymore?

I'll start.

I work for the State of Connecticut; Judicial Department. (in the Superior Court House) (of course you don't have to post your company, but I'm pretty trusting no one will come stalk me, and if you do, bring it on! I have wonderful Marshall's)

My title is Court Recording Monitor.

They used to have stenographers in the court rooms with that little machine to record the goings on. Now, with the help of technology, they have computers and people like me to work them and type what is being said in the court room. I am responsible for making sure everything is on the record, and its clear, and taking notes.

I am then responsible for making full, word for word transcripts when requested, as well as being paid extra for them

I really enjoy my job. Being a slightly nosy person by nature, to be able to sit in a Court room and hear all the drama really is right up my ally.

Sometimes I do trials, sometimes I do child support (magistrate), I do arraignments, I do serious crimes like murder, or rape, The list goes on and on, nasty divorces, juvenile delinquint's, bad parents.

Sometimes there is a case that is tough to hear. It pulls your heart strings as you hear the details, but for the most part I really enjoy my job day after day. Partly because it is never the same. There will not be the same cases on the docket tomorrow that there was today.

We do high profile cases, such as if you google "the dinner time bandit". We just finished that trial, and it was on CNN.
Today I saw Montel Williams in the court! I was excited!

**I feel really blessed to have a job that I enjoy, but I retain the right to come back next year and change this whole post to how I dont love my job anymore

P.S I am also a college student at night, which may be a tad tough this semester, which starts Tuesday, with my new found addiction to TF2

Sounds pretty cool Missy. Why was Montel in Connecticut though?

My job is...student right now, haha. I'm Majoring in Computer Science, and the plan is that I'll be a programmer somewhere, maybe even of video games, who knows. Over the summer I worked for my college creating a disc cloning system that we will be using the coming semester all over campus, so thats pretty cool. I really do enjoy my day to day as well, which is why I'm in it You know you're on to something when you can work on the same problem for 9 hours straight, and still be enjoying yourself

Uhh. I cut Fruit and make salads in a salad bar, at my local grocery store. I am currently studying computer sciences in school, so I'm hoping in the next few years, all this will change

I'm way too baked to drive to the Devil's house.

GI_Josh wrote:

Sounds pretty cool Missy. Why was Montel in Connecticut though?

Montel's 2nd ex wife, ya know, the one before the stripper he is married to now, is bringing him back for not complying with court orders about visitation, insurance policies for the kids, as well as something about a movie he wants to put the kids in.

We also had Tom Bergeron (dancing with the stras) in for Jury Duty a few months back.

I teach intro U.S. History (to 1877 & post 1877) at a small public university in Georgia. Pretty basic stuff but I enjoy it immensely. Being just a lowly instructor I probably will move down to the high school level eventually, but for the time being I'll keep on with this.

I work in one of the Top 10 law firms in the US, specifically in DC, two blocks north of the White House...but I'm not a lawyer.

I work in office/tech administration. It's an interesting position, because I get to work in posh, art gallery-type environments, but unlike the bread and butter of our firm, I get to go home at 5pm every evening.

I like it well enough, but sometimes wonder if I should be aiming higher. It's kind of weird working for a customer (lawyers) who's minimum qualification for their employment is a Harvard/Yale degree. I guess it sets the bar kind of high.

Still, it beats having a real job.

I am a 3D modeler and Special Effects Engineer. I work in Maya, After Effects, Photoshop, 3d max, shake , Renderman, and many other 2d and 3d apps to get the job done.

Before my current job I worked on commercials like Scion, fanta, chase, and energizer.

I now work for a museum design firm and model architecture, and render designers and architects visions for whatever they want to build.

I would like to get my hands in the gaming industry one day building levels, tanks, jets, whatever.

Currently I'm a Software Quality Assurance Engineer for a major insurance company writing automation test scripts for their web based apps. Basically, the devs create new functionality that is submitted to the QA Dept and that is then split between the manual testing team for hands-on testing while the automation team write scripts to test the feature. We're on a very tight two week release schedule so getting the automation down to recheck the feature is critical for keeping ahead of the never-ending development.

I used to manage a QA Dept. for an enterprise application VoIP startup company as well as coded voice demonstration apps for their gaming industry projects but I left them a couple weeks ago. That was actually a pretty cool job (got to meet some gaming industry vets like David Perry in person) but there was no stability whatsoever. My current job appears to be quite stable once I get into the groove of their processes.

In my free time I'm usually playing with my kids. But, when they head to bed I'm a lazy writer with a bunch of screenplays that will never be produced. I considered trying to direct them "mariachi style" by funding them myself but with a wife & two kids that's no longer an option. I'm currently working on a novel about my experiences at the startup but I think I may rewrite it as a non-fiction book on the perils of startups and the consequences of decisions. I'm considering the non-fiction route as there is less of a chance of a defamation lawsuit if my fictional characters are too similar to real-life counterparts. I've also been considering working on Flash/Flex based casual games in my free time but other than some concept code, design docs and buying a domain, I haven't gone much further... yet.

I'm a consultant on Remedy based software development working on new database projects for several major US companies. That said I'm still learning the position (slowly) and am allowed a lot of leeway because my boss is also my brother. On the one hand the nepotism is awesome because I'm salaried with his company and the lean weeks just have me playing video games or reading books. On the other hand the lean weeks are getting less and less and I cannot slack off when a project is due because, well... it's for my brother. So the busy weeks have me working multiple sixteen hour days trying to get things done by deadlines handed down from veeps who know even less than I do about database creation and implementation, which leads to some stressful days.

That said the work is interesting (I actually have to use my brain) and I work from home so the lack of commute is great. And when you consider I was working temporary administrative assistant positions before this job it's simply heaven. The benefits, such as any number of days off so long as I get most of the project done, aforementioned lack of commute, and pay (can't forget the pay) by far outweigh the downsides.

I work at Mersive Technologies

We do cool sh*t like this

and this

I work as a sales and applications engineer for a manufacturer of extensometers (sensors used in materials testing). It's a small company, so in reality, I do everything from taking out the trash to developing calibration routines for our quality systems to design work for special applications.

In previous jobs I was in charge of failure analysis at a materials testing laboratory and before that I ran a materials testing lab (two different labs in different states). Before that I was a college student wondering what in the world I was going to do with my life.

In an old thread, I wrote:

You should stack boxes on pallets! I do, and I make around $16/hr. As an additional bonus, the job comes with no dignity to maintain, so i save big there.

3D modeler/animator and hopefully future game designer. Currently unemployed and creating a new portfolio that almost doesn't suck before I go begging for a new job all over North America. Before that, I spent almost a year working on training software for the Canadian military.

I somehow stumbled into a job at Google. My background is very diverse (ex-military, medicine, bartender, degree in philosophy, nonprofit grant writing, etc.), but most of the last decade has been working in the tech sector in a variety of positions (e.g. tech support, systems admin, project management and so on). I had left the nonprofit sector to go to law school, but before school was supposed to start, my wife and I decided to start a family (we weren't getting any younger). Since she's working on her doctorate in BioInformatics, having both of us in grad school would have killed us, and there was no way in hell I was going to try law school with a newborn.

I can't say I love what I do just yet (mostly project management of a sort focused on deploying solutions for high tier customers - read what you will into that) - but it's a stepping stone to more interesting work, and the perks keep me coming back day after day.

On a side note, just as I took the position at Google, I was offered a job at LucasArts (I had applied there) and turned them down. Part of me regrets that because it would have been a huge door into the industry, but the pay and hours weren't exactly friendly. And now that I see that they have had to let a lot of folks go over the last couple of months, that decision rests a little easier with me.

I'm a web developer for a company that does online HRIS and benefits enrollment. Most of the stuff is I do is the business logic and data layer behind the scenes, but I also do the front end web pages occasionally (after it has been mocked up by a designer). I also do data interfaces with other insurance carriers and our client's payroll systems.

I really like my job and the company has had some serious growth in the last couple of years (I've been there 4 years now). I have my own team now but the work is never ending. I am planning on this weekend being the first one in a couple months where I haven't spent at least 8+ hours working. I would say if I was working 40 hours a week my compensation was awesome, but for the actual hours worked I'd say it was fair. My hard work does not go unnoticed (I hope) so hopefully it will pay off.

The worst part of the job is all the code is written in VB6 and ASP classic and we don't have time to convert it fast enough. We're going to C# and ASP.NET (PHP/Linux lovers please refrain from comments... I will just say that C# is better then VB6 and I didn't have much choice in the matter). We're trying to hire more developers but most qualified candidates, especially non-senior programmers, do not want to do VB6, even to convert it to C#.

I work inside sales for a major IT reseller. I am responsible for accounts in the San Francisco area.

What does that mean? I wear a headset all day, talk to many fascinating people, while manipulating the most incredible real-time strategy/distribution/communication software through dual monitors. It's a trip, a rush, and a purely fascinating time. I'm taught things constantly and allowed to try and contact anyone in a set of zip codes and interest them in myself and my company. Most importantly I make IT people happy with my expertise and my effort.

And if I'm keeping your IT people happy then you're being kept happy.

I love my job!

MaxShrek wrote:

I'm way too baked to drive to the Devil's house.

yes... Let the monkey drive.

For now, graduate student in studying Communication. Specifically I study parent-child interactions dealing with television. Although if you talk to me in a year I'll be singing a different tune.

Official title is technical consultant. I help companies with their tech infrastructure projects in the SF Bay Area. I'm always moving around to different working environments.

Just finished a stint a month ago at Apple, did some network engineering projects there. Currently helping a major clothing retailer setup an infrastructure team that will handle anything and everything that an agile development group can throw at it.

I make videogames in a producer position. The day to day varies a lot but usually involves making sure that the right people are talking to each other at the right time and coming to an agreement on how to do things. The past week has been planning meetings all through, today I'm taking screenshots for the publisher. I love my job, it's still hard to understand that I'm getting paid to do this. Actually scratch that, I can't really think of this as "a job". It's what I do.

Can't say what I'm working on, but our previous game was this.

I'm an architect. Not the information kind, but the kind that deals with brick and mortar and steel and concrete.

I used to work on a lot of glass curtain wall high rise office buildings. I've also worked on multi-million apartment renovations in New York City. But these days I'm mostly working on affordable housing in distressed neighborhoods.

Sell a little dope, little meth.
In all seriousness last real job I had was mowing lawns/translator before my boss got charged with possession and lost the business.

I work as a software developer for a major airline. I support our revenue management division and do statistical and data analysis for passenger/revenue forecasting. At the moment that mainly consists of setting up and maintaining a multi-terabyte SQL Server data analysis system.

And the reason I am up at 4am is because my pager went off two hours ago when a nightly load failed.

I'm a part-time preschool teacher and a full-time university student. The teaching gig has only been going on for a month and it was volunteer. On September 8th I start getting paid and I can officially call myself a teacher.

Right now I work for a software reseller, as an account executive. Meaning I get to talk to customers, do the follow-up of orders and quotations while the account manager goes out hunting for new prospects.

The pay is decent (with the bonus system), the work is kinda always the same with some exceptions, everything is kinda average here

I design and test high broadband RF circuitry used to test ICs that go into consumer electronics.

I love doing it, but hate describing it because it's a three-off job. I make stuff for the people who make stuff for the people who make your graphics card.

Quite a range of jobs in this thread so far, still a majority in tech though.

I'm a software developer for a mobile phone software company, if you own a Palm, UIQ or a (high-end) Motorola Smartphone you've probably used some software I've worked on. It's my first job, I'll probably leave soon.

I dream of quitting and going into mobile gaming development on my own, but I'm far too addicted to regular pay cheques to actually do it.

Edit: removed ambiguity

I used to do marketing, but now I'm a Proposal Writer for a national IT agency.

Also, browsing gaming forums is a full-time job in itself.

jlaakso wrote:

Can't say what I'm working on, but our previous game was this.

I bought the recent PC version off Steam on a whim. I'm not lying when I say it's the first racer I'm still playing five hours later.

I manage a coffee shop.

That's about it really, done other things but I always end up back in the hospitality field. I like dealing with hundreds of people in a day.

My plans for the future involve buying a guest house in Mozambique so I can scuba dive all day and talk to people all night, maybe make some cocktails.

I do tech support/ tech setup/ app development/ training/ etc for a State-run Education Agency.
Some days I'm building databases to track Early Childhood Specialist workloads, other days I'm on my cell-phone walking some 80 year old substitute teacher through configuring his browser to stop blocking our print-dialog popup windows. Since we cover all the school districts in a 7 county area (which may be doubling in the next year) I go to a different office each day of the week. I've been doing this for almost 6 years now and I like to think that I've gotten really good at it. I'm paid enough and receive enough benefits to keep my eye from wandering. Good insurance, reimbursed mileage, paid sick leave that accumulates up to 180 days, 20 vacation days a year that accumulate up to 40, the option to bank or pay out overtime... And lots of job satisfaction. Google is coming to town soon and people keep asking me if I'll apply. I don't think I will.

EDIT Oh yeah, official title is MicroComputer/Network Support Specialist.

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