What Do People Do For A Living?

[Axeman]

Hiya all,

Was just looking in the Dev forum, and someone asked about what people are doing. I'd like to take this oppertunity to do the same, but to everyone on the forum. What do people here do for a living? Are you still in school? Do you like what you do? Have you got any ambitions?

Just curious!

I'm a Technical Analyst / Network Engineer. I do all sorts of stuff, but a lot of it is Cisco-based networking. I do the Voice side of things too - just getting into Cisco Voice Over IP and Internet telephony.

What about you lot?

 

[Mosch]

I think we had this topic lately... but well, my job changed anyway. I am no longer a soldier, I am now unemployed. I now wait for october to finally go to university for..... angewandte Informatik, whatever that might be in english

 

[Delsabre]

I'm a student. Still in highschool, going to college this fall.

I hope to become an electronics engineer.

 

[skysnapper]

Analyst programmer for an Underwriting(insurance) firm in London
Program in C#, COBOL, Sql Server, VB and use SELECT modelling tools for design (which i hate as its so bloody time consuming and id rather be programming than sitting there making diagrams and writing specifications) :rolleyes:

 

[kknd_cf]

Student with no ambitions. Cept AR>

 

[PinkSpider]

Im a student doing BTEC National Diploma In Computing, the worst course ever; the only redeeming features are that I have made lots of friends. Anyways when I passed I was gonna go to uni and do something in computing (preferably programming), but things happened and I had to re-evaluate my life; im sick of education. So im gonna get a job and see how things go.

 

[DJWillis]

My day job is Technical Architect for a utilities company.

In reality that means my job sits somewhere between Axeman’s and Skysnapper’s with a lot of time spent on overall strategy/security/design stuff.

The big + side is I get to play with LOADS of interesting stuff but the downsides are 50+ hour weeks .

 

[finty]

3rd year in a shitty grammer school.

 

[Phil]

nothing

at all.

i am a student.

 

[thebluenewt]

nothing

at all.

i am a student.

Amen.

Meant to be doing a masters in archaeology though... :unsure:

 

[divadsci]

Student doing GCSE's in a few weeks. really should start some revision

 

[PinkSpider]

bah dont worry about GCSEs I did about 3 hours revision overall and still got all Cs

 

[unlucky]

Yeah the prospect of my gcse's is freaking me out + i've done no revision escept for 7 science papers over these 2 weeks plan 2 do 2 maths papers 2morrow / 2day + then revision the rest of the week ( i'm sure this is going 2 happen :/ ) Its around now i always start programming again........ / playing more counterstrike

 

[PinkSpider]

I did none of those papers tbh, I did all the revision the night before... I dont care what people say I passed and got into college

 

[Axeman]

nothing

at all.

i am a student.

Amen.

Meant to be doing a masters in archaeology though... :unsure:

Cool...

Did my BSc in Archaeological Conservation.

Afterwards, I did conservation of Egyptian Mummies (If you drop into Norwich Castle museum at any time, you can take a look at my handywork), Time Team (UK TV show) and work on a Romano Celtic 3rd Century boat....

Then ended up as a Technical Analyst!

Figures!

 

[Azure]

I'm a High School student with aspirations of becoming a computer programmer (In the summer I plan to start learning C++). I took one of those personality tests at school to see what kind of jobs I would be suited for and computer programmer came up. I also then took a skills test to see what kind of jobs I would have the skills for, and guess what? Computer programmer came up again. I also think that it would be cool career. I think it's perfect for me. My friend who goes to UC Riverside said that he took some computer programming classes for like a week and said they were hella hard and that a computer programmer would be hella hard, but then afterwards he said that I would be perfect for it.

 

[Axeman]

Have you ever had any coding experience? I've written loads of stuff in other languages, but I'm still finding C++ hard going!

 

[PinkSpider]

I know Visual Basic and Pascal pretty well and I found C hard to learn

 

[Daz_Genetic]

I'm a freelance Techinical Artist currently working with Evolution Studios on on the Sony published World Rally Championshic '04.

 

[Twimfy]

I'm a student at Bournemouth Uni studying Applied Geography, although I'm changing courses to Media Communication...I'm too good at geog to make it interesting any more.