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tintub · Mar 12, 2003, 12:05 AM

A thread where you can gloat or moan about your job. What do you do? Is it fun? Is it well paid? Do you hate your job?

I recently started working as a Software Engineer, mainly doing PHP/SQL. The pay is excellent (>$60,000), the work is mainly smallish projects so it changes frequently, I am able to post on /. and the lounge all day, we occasionally shut the door to the IT Dept and have a LAN game of Warcraft III, and all my co-workers are very nice people. So my job rocks. It is also the first job I have ever had that both rocked and had good pay. I have had both before, but not at the same time.

I am on Windows NT. That is a pity, but it means I can blame everything that goes wrong on the OS and everybody will agree.

So what do you do? Is your job hot or not?

MindFad · Mar 12, 2003, 12:10 AM

Currently jobless, and looking grim. My problem: I have practically no work experience, so it's tough. And preparing to juggle that with heading back to college should be great fun. At least I can use Photoshop like a champ.

Kinda.

tintub · Mar 12, 2003, 12:20 AM

Originally posted by MindFad:
Currently jobless, and looking grim. My problem: I have practically no work experience, so it's tough. And preparing to juggle that with heading back to college should be great fun. At least I can use Photoshop like a champ. Kinda.

Your photoshop stuff is EXCELLENT. It shouldn't take you too long of showing your portfolio around before you get a job.

This is my first REAL IT job (as opposed to Freelance) since I first learned HTML back in 1998. But then I have never been very pro-active in finding a job, and this one pretty much fell into my lap.

If you came to Australia with your Photoshop skills, I am sure I could get you some work here!

dillerX · Mar 12, 2003, 12:29 AM

Ask me tomorrow. I am currently redoing all the pages for the track right now cause someone decided to change prices 50 days before the season starts. Like i have the ****ing time you bastards!

putamare · Mar 12, 2003, 12:37 AM

you should move to dynamically driven content, static content is for like squares man

MindFad · Mar 12, 2003, 12:43 AM

Me, puta?

Hey, how 'bout some Rockford Files icons?

Back on topic, there is a small graphics and print house I'm thinking about trying for. We'll see how that goes. I really do need to save up for a 970 when it shows up.

Adam Betts · Mar 12, 2003, 01:25 AM

www.thebettsbro.com

Love my job very much. There's nothing better than enjoy doing what you like and get paid for it. In the future, we'll definitely expand our business.

dillerX · Mar 12, 2003, 01:39 AM

Originally posted by putamare:
you should move to dynamically driven content, static content is for like squares man

ya think?

putamare · Mar 12, 2003, 01:50 AM

Originally posted by dillerX:
ya think?

whoa yeah, totally 4/4

Adam Betts · Mar 12, 2003, 01:51 AM

Originally posted by putamare:
whoa yeah, totally 4/4

Yep, I usually use SSI (server-side include) for dynamic driven content. Couldn't live without it.

sek929 · Mar 12, 2003, 01:54 AM

I work at Home Depot now part time while going to school. I hate working with the general public because they annoy the hell out of me, but I can BS my way through most of it.

10.50/hr too

voodoo · Mar 12, 2003, 03:35 PM

I work at the Alcohol Monopoly weekends, and it's ok. My main job is being a student. Doesn't pay much, but it is fun.

dampeoples · Mar 12, 2003, 03:41 PM

I do field service for Square D. It's a good job, but i'm tired of the travel. It's only a few states, but being away from home 300 miles away is the same as being away from home 3000 miles away.

Anomalous · Mar 12, 2003, 03:59 PM

After receiving a college diploma from a reputable university, I have spent over a year looking for a job and have not been able to find anything, of any kind.

Adam Betts · Mar 12, 2003, 04:25 PM

Originally posted by Anomalous:
After receiving a college diploma from a reputable university, I have spent over a year looking for a job and have not been able to find anything, of any kind.

That's why I'm thinking about leaving my college. I think portfolio is far more important than a diploma.

I'm still unsure though.

MindFad · Mar 12, 2003, 04:53 PM

Originally posted by Adam Betts:
That's why I'm thinking about leaving my college. I think portfolio is far more important than a diploma.

I'm still unsure though.

No way -- stick it out and have both. Having both will look much better.

tintub · Mar 12, 2003, 05:59 PM

Originally posted by MindFad:
No way -- stick it out and have both. Having both will look much better.

Absolutely. It also looks good if you finish what you have started.

capuchin · Mar 12, 2003, 06:02 PM

Been here 3 years. Love my job. I'm the in house IT guy for a 50 person graphic design firm. I'm good at what I do, so things don't often go wrong, and I'm rarely busy. I fill in the time by reading, watching movies, chatting with co-workers, drinking coffee/beer, and playing prodigious amounts of Halo on the company xboxen.

And they pay me real good into the deal.

boardsurfer · Mar 12, 2003, 07:02 PM

I love my job. All my surf buddies already worked here before me. They kinda invited me in and I couldnt say no. I left my graphics job for this paralegal gig. I wasnt real good at graphics anyway. Better pay here too. In the spring the firm is moving about 2 miles from the beach. Should make for some great morning surf sessions before work. I still have to find out if the new building has a shower.

RedStar · Mar 12, 2003, 11:05 PM

Working in the computer support department at my college. Pays ok for a work study job, but it gets real tedious telling people how to check their email and installing network cards all day.