Where do you work/What Do you do?

[aeallison]

HTRegz, this might not help your cause...

Everyone in my program seems to think they'll end up working for hosting companies or ISPs and I want them to realize that basically every field has networking people in it. I was wondering where some of you work and what you do in your job.

I am presently unemployed and essentially broke. As of late, I have been in my barn working on my custom 89 Camaro ( my baby ) I have been into electronics and the service trade. I was a a TV Technician from '84 to '92...I began a stab at my own computer retail store, but the town I live in was\is very technically challenged and as a result my biz had to fold... At this point I went to work at a turkey farm down the road from my house as foreman. There, I developed a computerized management system to practically automate the processes of administering drugs and supplements into the feed and water systems, cooling and ventilation automation that used the temperatue monitored throughout the barns to control fans, heaters, and vent louvers. I installed terminals in various places around the farm so the workers and inspectors, etc... could retrieve data such as how many tons of feed was used for a given aount of time, administered medicines, etc... I did my job so well the owner decided it would be to his advantage to let me go and hire 3 kids to just out of high school , who's combined wages were less than what i got. After that I worked as an RV (Recreational Vehical) technician, here I worked mainly on electrical systems, all the while I was tutoring my boss in what I was very good at...I was soon let go. Since then I have built the networks at 2 different ISP's and "let go" after they got running smoothly...

If it wearn't for bad luck...

[Crypt]

suprisingly, i'm an IT manager for a G.M Dealership in canada

[drew]

aeallison, when you do work for someone, "stamp" it (hiddin in software for instance). then when you are let go, through some sort of "bad luck" or "karma" if you will, this stamp goes wacko and shutsdown the network rendering the isp or relevent organisation useless....

they call you, u (being the kind, caring individual you are) offer to take a look at your work. you "find" the problem and explain that the whole thing can be fixed immedietly.... the catch, you're services for "free-lance" work are consideribly higher then what they were paying you when U worked for THEM.

now wouldn't that be cool?

[unhappyStar]

well ... i work in fashion industry hell. nothing but Excel on NT. i go to cc at night -> general comp science. i install mod chips in PS1/2 Xbox and GameCube + hardware/software fix for cash. help my cuz to set up network he had a contract for but i never got paid (*******), did a network for quake competition for free. but really i wanna go into security...

[Neo-Icarus]

Well my jobs kinda embarrising and sounds the worst i have not been to colledge but i have learnt a lot from others form Ao !!! Brilliant Thread
HTRegz

[thread_killer]

Originally posted here by sUrD
hehe, you guys are gonna luv this. i used to run a computer store in arkansas, but it got shut down, now i work at a wastewater treatment plant. i guess you could say it is a shitty job, but it pays good and the plant is run all by computers and PLCs.

Hey....I used to work at a computer place in Fort Smith that no longer exists. Where did you work?


To answer the question posed by this thread......I am the WAN engineer/Blue Hat (see my thread on 'new kind of hacker' ) For a 6000 node, 100+ server, 30 site organization.

[alittlebitnumb]

I am a homemaker of 12 years and on the side do web design stuff. I sometimes help my friends out at a local ISP doing some hardware and help newbies learn about their computers.

Nothing spectacular.

albn

[HTRegz]

That's great everyone thanks a lot... Since everyone else posted I'll throw up mine for ya'll to see...

Currently I'm running my own computer company on the side, proly 1 sale a month just for some spending money + i get cheap hardware. Threw my company I also do website design. I spent last semester tutoring in Visual Basic .Net for 9 bux an hour. Before coming here for college. I was a CAP (Community Access Program) Site Administrator.... CAP is a project where public computer access points are set-up for people who don't own computers. I had 8 desktops, a laptop, a 60" TV, a digital camera and a printer/scanner. ohhh fancy. HAH!.. I'd basically monitor computer usage when people were around. Come in during the day and teach the students in the lower grades (it was at an elementary school) basic html. I did custom photo editing/printing for people, and taught a few older people computer basics.

[Algaen]

I am currently in my third year of a computer science at the University of New Brunswick.

I have done two 8 month co-op work terms while I've been here. My term was spent servicing federal government job banks (for anyone from Canada, those are those federal government machines in the big fancy cases in the malls). My most recent work term was spent with Imperial Oil doing a few things. I provided end-user support for the users, I wrote some Perl scripts to generate reports, and I developped an MS Access application to record and organize PC and telephone moves.

The jobs haven't been overly exciting, but have had some good experience. (oh and I also help my sister's friends with their PC problems, cause they are hot! hahaha)

[GandalfTheGray]

Senior manager for a government contractor. I am primarily a physicist, but computers have been everywhere I've worked since the late 1960's. I have learned what I have learned primarily by trying lots of things and (hopefully) remembering those that worked. Even though computing has never been my main job description, I have often been promoted ahead of others because of my acquired skills. Those of you who are getting formal training in computing and networking have a lot of opportunities and will often be chosen ahead of others with similar talents, but little computer literacy.

I began in computer security in the 80's, when the Department of Energy was developing a set of guidelines regarding what a really good computer security program would look like. I've been in ever since. I have to say it's become almost too much fun lately.