What do you do for a living?

[Reality]

I posted one of these threads a couple of years ago, but it has been a while and we have a lot of new members here now and more people posting, so I thought it would be good to ask this question again.

What do you do for a living?

 

[BigStar]

Payroll and budget for a federal agency

 

[cowboyec]

church janitor...15yrs full-time....3yrs part-time...18yrs total.

 

[CouchCoach]

Retired but I spent most of my career in the music biz. 10 years in broadcast services, 9 years in music licensing and 25 years in radio station management. I spent most of my time around crazy people and now I spend all of my time with the craziest one of all.

Sometimes, I think I should have spent my career in a quiet office, wearing short sleeve shirts with a very narrow muted tie and a pencil pocket protector. Picture Michael Douglas in "Falling Down", I think I had the propensity to go the way he went because it is dangerous to put crazy people around sane people for too long. Crazy people are better managed when they're in a herd.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Started off in phone technical support and one of the first pure (dialup) Internet Service Provides back in the early 90s. (prior to this I was a machinist) That moved around to phone support for MSN, McAfee, and CompUSA computer support. Decided, I wanted nothing to do with customer support. Got a job doing data processing for a wholesale and retail liquor distributor. Using my technical skills, I automated myself out of a job. They were so impressed when I took my full days work down to 15 minutes a day that they made me a systems administrator. From there, I learned storage and networks also and became a full infrastructure admin building Enterprise infrastructure for our new building. (ie, corporate office infrastructure)

At this point, I was still living in the Dallas / Fort Worth area and my career started to stagnate. There were no opportunities to grow technically or financially. A friend of mine from NY told me I should move to NY because if I can make it in NY, I can make it anywhere. Three months later, I was living in NY working for a non-profit. They wanted me to convert their Solaris / Oracle web infrastructure to Linux and Oracle on Linux.

I completed that transformation after about 9 months. I stuck around for about a year and I moved to a media and marketing company. (for a substantial raise, as non-profits really don't pay much) I worked there for about two years, but they sold to another company and I quickly figured out they intended to move the company to Nebraska. Nope, I was staying in NY.

I then got a job as a Senior Infrastructure admin for start up online trading platform in the Financial District in NY. I build them a high availability private cloud for their online trading platform with multiple locations which paid off when Hurricane Sandy hit NYC. We were down a total of five minutes (not even during trading hours!) when the entire building in NYC went offline. We flipped over to a secondary location and trading continued.

I worked there until that company sold and they were moving the main office from lower Manhattan to New Jersey. Since I live in Connecticut and my commute was already 1 1/2 each way. I left and joined my current company.

I've been here for almost six years. About six months after joining the company. They promoted me from Senior Infrastructure administrator to Director of IT. About two years after that, I was officially named a company Officer taking the title of Chief Technical Officer. (CTO)

These days, I don't do a whole lot of hands on technical stuff anymore except where I can or at home on personal projects. Today, professionally, I mostly manage / mentor people, strategic planning, and architectural oversight from both a infrastructure and software development standpoint.

I still occasionally fart in your general direction.

 

[Reality]

You first, nosy!

I think when you have a tight forum community with a lot of dedicated members it's good to share what people do for a living just like they do with their personal interests.

You never know when that other fan you're arguing with does the same thing as you do or does something that may help guide you toward finding a solution to a problem you are dealing with one day.

 

[Cowboys_22]

Retired....Full time handyman working on honey do list

 

[darthseinfeld]

QA/QC/QS for contact lense company. Ive taken the auditor hat, and work more on the analytical side of it.

 

[Reality]

I was kidding, but still, when someone starts a thread like this, it seems only fair that that person states what they do for a living, to start it off.

I run CowboysZone

 

[Runwildboys]

I run CowboysZone

I always assumed this was a side hustle.

 

[Red Dragon]

Academic staff/evaluator at a university.

 

[Reality]

I always assumed this was a side hustle.

Oh it is .. but it is something I do each day

 

[YosemiteSam]

I run CowboysZone

Quite poorly I must say.

Good damn thing you have quality help around here. hah

 

[YosemiteSam]

I always assumed this was a side hustle.

He's also a crack salesmen.

btw, I would like to see the insults you were spewing my way. I would like to appreciate them properly.

 

[Reality]

Quite poorly I must say.

Good damn thing you have quality help around here. hah

Indeed

 

[65fastback2plus2]

Commercial Property Manager

 

[Reverend Conehead]

I'm a tech support agent. I explain how to use security software in English and in French.

 

[DoctorChicken]

Take pictures

 

[Xelda]

Started off in phone technical support and one of the first pure (dialup) Internet Service Provides back in the early 90s. (prior to this I was a machinist) That moved around to phone support for MSN, McAfee, and CompUSA computer support. Decided, I wanted nothing to do with customer support. Got a job doing data processing for a wholesale and retail liquor distributor. Using my technical skills, I automated myself out of a job. They were so impressed when I took my full days work down to 15 minutes a day that they made me a systems administrator. From there, I learned storage and networks also and became a full infrastructure admin building Enterprise infrastructure for our new building. (ie, corporate office infrastructure)

At this point, I was still living in the Dallas / Fort Worth area and my career started to stagnate. There were no opportunities to grow technically or financially. A friend of mine from NY told me I should move to NY because if I can make it in NY, I can make it anywhere. Three months later, I was living in NY working for a non-profit. They wanted me to convert their Solaris / Oracle web infrastructure to Linux and Oracle on Linux.

I completed that transformation after about 9 months. I stuck around for about a year and I moved to a media and marketing company. (for a substantial raise, as non-profits really don't pay much) I worked there for about two years, but they sold to another company and I quickly figured out they intended to move the company to Nebraska. Nope, I was staying in NY.

I then got a job as a Senior Infrastructure admin for start up online trading platform in the Financial District in NY. I build them a high availability private cloud for their online trading platform with multiple locations which paid off when Hurricane Sandy hit NYC. We were down a total of five minutes (not even during trading hours!) when the entire building in NYC went offline. We flipped over to a secondary location and trading continued.

I worked there until that company sold and they were moving the main office from lower Manhattan to New Jersey. Since I live in Connecticut and my commute was already 1 1/2 each way. I left and joined my current company.

I've been here for almost six years. About six months after joining the company. They promoted me from Senior Infrastructure administrator to Director of IT. About two years after that, I was officially named a company Officer taking the title of Chief Technical Officer. (CTO)

These days, I don't do a whole lot of hands on technical stuff anymore except where I can or at home on personal projects. Today, professionally, I mostly manage / mentor people, strategic planning, and architectural oversight from both a infrastructure and software development standpoint.

I still occasionally fart in your general direction.

Can I get the Reader's Digest version or cliff notes?

 

[CyberB0b]

Airline pilot