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dgs212 · Apr 2, 2002, 05:06 AM

This is probably old ground on this board, but I'm curious and I've never seen it brought up, so...

What is your occupation?

I'm interested to know how many of us, percentage-wise, do NOT have computer-centric careers.

I'm graduating in a month and am attempting to break into woodworking, funiture design, and/or furniture restoration, so no on-the-job computers for me.

fobside · Apr 2, 2002, 05:10 AM

im a student. i do have a part time job as a programmer for one of the departments at ucla.

Sealobo · Apr 2, 2002, 05:41 AM

I am a student, and i will officially retire by this coming August~

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dillerX · Apr 2, 2002, 06:02 AM

I do various design (graphic & web) out of my home. I also work at night at a local bakery.

curmi · Apr 2, 2002, 06:16 AM

I'm a Software Project Leader / Software Engineer at Agent Oriented Software (http://www.agent-software.com) in Australia.

MacFan · Apr 2, 2002, 07:17 AM

I am the overnight PSS Shift Manager in our support department for a Hotel/PMS software development company.

C33 · Apr 2, 2002, 10:02 AM

i'm an Art Director for an IT company.

MacGorilla · Apr 2, 2002, 10:06 AM

I am a full time writer and student at MCLA.

dav · Apr 2, 2002, 10:07 AM

my official title is "senior graphic designer"

KaptainKaya · Apr 2, 2002, 10:07 AM

I do networking working nights. I'd rather use a Mac but hey, once I graduate hopefully that will change

voodoo · Apr 2, 2002, 10:08 AM

Student, studying for BS in molecular biology. Recently gave up on medicine.

I am studying at the University of Iceland, in Reykjav�k.

SimeyTheLimey · Apr 2, 2002, 10:09 AM

Law student at GULC by night, paralegal by day.

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Timo · Apr 2, 2002, 10:10 AM

"L'architecture d'aujourd'hui."

I'm an architect.

Lerkfish · Apr 2, 2002, 10:11 AM

graphic artist for newspapers...been at it a while.

stuff I've done or still do

spb · Apr 2, 2002, 10:16 AM

i'm king of the world!!!

lilliput..?

malvolio · Apr 2, 2002, 10:25 AM

I'm a paper-shuffler for a state governmental entity. And it's just as incredibly boring as it sounds.

maxelson · Apr 2, 2002, 10:32 AM

Mac specialist for a Government contracted R&D thinktank (which I lovingly call the "Temple of Intellect"). I am responsible for the care and feeding of the entire Mac zoo as well as a solution provider to those what use them Macs.

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Apr 2, 2002, 10:34 AM

Full time Digital Media Designer.

Lerkfish · Apr 2, 2002, 10:40 AM

Originally posted by maxelson:
Mac specialist for a Government contracted R&D thinktank (which I lovingly call the "Temple of Intellect"). I am responsible for the care and feeding of the entire Mac zoo as well as a solution provider to those what use them Macs.

oooh..that sounds cool! do they need a graphic artist?

Timo · Apr 2, 2002, 10:48 AM

Originally posted by Lerkfish:
stuff I've done or still do

Nice looking work, Lerk. Your slideshow reminds me a bit of Tufte's books.

maxelson · Apr 2, 2002, 11:18 AM

Originally posted by Lerkfish:


oooh..that sounds cool! do they need a graphic artist?

Actually... they employ a LOT of graphic artists and.. well, email me. I am actually quite sure there are positions for someone of your talent. Willing to relocate to stoic and stuffy Mass, are we? Seriously, the Lab is a GREAT place to work.

DBursey · Apr 2, 2002, 11:41 AM

I'm an electrical engineer for a large urban electrical distribution utility. One of my current internal titles is that of 'investment delivery team leader', which involves the administration of various business ventures between my company and other entities, such as the leasing of fibre optic assets to other companies.

My other duties mostly involve overseeing the development, revision and implementation of electrical standards and specifications for high voltage equipment and work procedures that minimize incidents of equipment failure and accidents to utility personell. In a nutshell, my job entails maintaining and improving the process to safely ship electrons in bulk to end users.

driven · Apr 2, 2002, 11:48 AM

Software Engineer. ( Win32, C++, C# (.NET) )

ringo · Apr 2, 2002, 12:12 PM

Product Management/Web Site Design/Office Administration/Database Guru/Process Flow Design/Competitive Information Gathering/Part Time Student/Gurrilla Advertising Coordinator/Business Planning/Photographer/Technology Consultant

Two jobs (+ PT Student), many responsibilities. I like to think of myself as a Master Generalist.

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LeftWingLock · Apr 2, 2002, 12:47 PM

Middle School science teacher and unofficial tech support person.

XPBlows · Apr 2, 2002, 12:50 PM

I'm a Unix SysAdmin... and I build large networks/datacenters/NOCS ...etc... use to do Microsoft.. Novell... eh...it's work.

daimoni · 12:47 AM

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daimoni · 12:48 AM

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OwlBoy · Apr 2, 2002, 01:55 PM

I work are Ace Hardware currently, hopefully going to become a graphic designer though.

-Owl

ReggieX · Apr 2, 2002, 01:56 PM

Freelance Web production guy, 85% HTML, CSS, and whatnot, 15% graphics. The market sucks these days like how. Had a fulltime gig, and the co. went belly-up in the 2000 crash.
Did a bunch of banner ads for a bank (who are keeping me somewhat busy these days) last week; I thought the ads weren't that great, but they apparently loved them! So there ya go. There's only so much one can do with a small canvas

I gotta re-do my site one of these days: I've been going through old backup CDs to weed out the crap I can throw out, and found the first design ideas from November 1998! Oy...

Meantime I wanna hit up Maxelson for a move back to Bahstahn

I'd really like to go back to school for about 2 years to actually concentrate on the Design aspect, my skills and speed there are lacking. But the lack of cash and current fights with OSAP are keeping me away.

In an ideal world I'd go back to school fulltime for Industrial Design, something I should have done 10 years ago. Live and learn I guess. I wanna build neat things!

PS. Lerkfish, nice work there!

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maxelson · Apr 2, 2002, 02:12 PM

RIghty-ho.
Daimoni, Reg, here's the URL: www.ll.mit.edu
I recommend the joint HIGHLY. INCREDIBLE place to work. Good folks, lots of fun, big Mac population. Pay is good to really good, can't complain about the bennies, great atmosphere.
They do great DoD work here (that's DEFENSE, which is how I justify working for the military industrial complex... nice rationalization, that!).
Yer kids go to MIT for free, if they can get in.
Let's get those resumes IN!!!

Nyuni · Apr 2, 2002, 02:24 PM

I'm a Solaris/Win2k/NT4 Systems and Network admin for the corporate headquarters of an IT Company in the Baltimore/Washington area that provides IT Contracting to Fortune 500 comapnies and the Government.

Oh, yeah.. and I'm a full-time college student on top of that.

agentz · Apr 2, 2002, 02:37 PM

My job title is ICT Technical Support Analyst. I work for the Education Client Services division of my local government office as part of a team of 10 support persons.

I'm the odd one out of the team though... the other people spend a large chunk of their time visiting 144 educational establishments (schools, nurseries, libraries, offices, community education sites etc) performing a range of reactive work (ie it used to work but doesn't work now), or doing planned work such as installations, upgrades, audits etc. I spend nearly my whole time in the office doing email administration (Symantec MailGear for now) for nearly 32,000 users (all our staff and students), doing day to day database admin for our Helldesk system (assyst Enterprise from Axios Systems - a V V good product that can do like everything!) and supplier liaison.

Except for this week and next, our schools are on their Easter holidays so we have tons of installations/reconfigurations to do. I did 10 laptop builds today with a couple of colleagues, tomorrow we're off to run some diagnostics on a batch of servers at one of our Secondary schools. Fun.

daimoni · 12:48 AM

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cjrivera · Apr 2, 2002, 03:04 PM

"What Do You Do?"

You mean besides spending way too much time checking the MacNN boards?

Physician - specializing in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.

And since I network and fix/upgrade all the Macs in the office, I guess I'm also the network administrator.

Bockie · Apr 2, 2002, 03:44 PM

Hardware/Tech Support - 18%
KaptainKaya
maxnelson
XPBlows
Nyuni
agentz

Media/Graphic Design - 21%
dillerX
C33
dav
Lerkfish
Severed Hand of Skywalker
ReggieX

Software/Programming - 18%
fobside
curmi
MacFan
driven
daimoni

(Primarily) Student - 14%
sealobo
MacGorilla
voodoo
SimeyTheLimey

Other/Miscellaneous - 29%
dgs212 - carpenter
Timo - architect
malvolio - Paper Shuffler™
DBursey - engineer
ringo - Master Generalist™
LeftWingLock - teacher
OwlBoy - worker bee

cjrivera - doctor
Bockie - marketer

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Lerkfish · Apr 2, 2002, 05:00 PM

thanks for the comments re: my work.
regarding tufte, I think he's sometimes too anal in regards to graphics as communication...for example, he thinks pie charts should never be shifted in 3 dimensions because it throws of the actual area....but I say no one can mentally calculate that area visually anyways, so go ahead and make it 3-D, just label it accurately.
But he approaches it from an academic perspective, and I from a communications perspective.

and I would love to work with some of you guys..though I'd rather just win the lottery...waits....yeah, that's gonna happen.

agentz · Apr 2, 2002, 05:04 PM

Good numbers Bockie, they're kinda what I would've expected for thesse here fora.

fearman111 · Apr 2, 2002, 05:06 PM

I'm a Prepress operator in the desktop section of a big printing company. Basically, I trap Quark, Photoshop and Illustrator files, make proofs, and some CTP output.

This is only until my band gets signed, then it's sex, drugs and rock and roll.

fm111

Timo · Apr 2, 2002, 05:07 PM

Originally posted by Lerkfish:

regarding tufte, I think he's sometimes too anal in regards to graphics as communication...

Yeah, I agree; that's why I thought your slideshow only kinda reminded me of him...what Tufte might be like if he loosened up a bit.

DigitalEl · Apr 2, 2002, 05:10 PM

I'm advertising manager for a casino. It sucks.

I should change my signature to "This ain't Vegas!"

Lerkfish · Apr 2, 2002, 05:18 PM

Originally posted by DigitalEl:
I'm advertising manager for a casino. It sucks.

I should change my signature to "This ain't Vegas!"

They have gambling in Phoenix now? things have changed since I last lived in Tucson...omigod about 15 years ago.
But I actually lived in Vegas also....and its NO phoenix!

Lerkfish · Apr 2, 2002, 05:21 PM

Originally posted by Timo:


Yeah, I agree; that's why I thought your slideshow only kinda reminded me of him...what Tufte might be like if he loosened up a bit.

well, that's the one part of my site that is definitely under construction. I started to type in what I said at each slide, but since I'd done it extemporaneously during the slide show, I had no notes that I could easily transcribe for the site. I need to fix that, though...doh! I think at each slide I'll put (and here I said something really funny...audience laughs....I forget my place, look up at the slide...oh yeah! )

ajprice · Apr 2, 2002, 05:29 PM

Graphic Designer,

. Soon to be "between jobs"

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ReggieX · Apr 2, 2002, 05:30 PM

Originally posted by maxelson:
Daimoni, Reg, here's the URL: www.ll.mit.edu
I recommend the joint HIGHLY

U.S. Citizenship Required
So much for that!

Thanks for the link anyway max, looks pretty cool.

DigitalEl · Apr 2, 2002, 05:39 PM

They have gambling in Phoenix now? things have changed since I last lived in Tucson...omigod about 15 years ago. But I actually lived in Vegas also....and its NO phoenix!

The Phoenix locator next to my name is wishful thinking. I have family in the Valley and have been trying to relocate for months! I'm actually in Kansas Shitty, Misery... I mean, Kansas City, Missouri.

Guess my 'secret' is out now, eh!?

To answer your question though... There is Tribal Gaming in Phoenix. There are 4 casinos in the market right now. I interviewed @ one to do promotions back around Christmas. It was more like a VFW hall with slot machines. I wanna move, but not that badly. Guess I just have to wait for the right opportunity.

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jholmes · Apr 2, 2002, 05:48 PM

I'm the Creative Director at a advertising and design firm.

That means I drink for a living.

finboy · Apr 2, 2002, 06:01 PM

I part the sea of ignorance daily.

cheerios · Apr 2, 2002, 07:26 PM

I AM the sea of ignorance, daily.

go fulltime student status!

fobside · Apr 2, 2002, 09:04 PM

Originally posted by cheerios:
I AM the sea of ignorance, daily.

go fulltime student status!

i prefer to tell my parents im waiting out the economy. full time student is good for me but i have a part time job just to make sure my parents dont worry about my future too much.