Jobs/School

[Tien'sPetLurg she/her]

What do you do for a living? Or for those of you in school, what do you study?


A long time ago, I was an internet guru. FFWD 12 yrs. I run a nonprofit business.

[Kobold King he/him]

I milk a goat, feed chickens, and help write educational topics for a homeschooling curriculum.

[Tien'sPetLurg she/her]

That's Excellent! 
We are sorting out how to pay someone next year to "home"school our son and travel all over with us. I think that's our game plan for 7th and 8th grade anyway. I have one year to figure it out. It can't be me. Unless there's a prescription strength Patience Pill that becomes available. :-)

[Argent he/him]

Software Engineer. Livin' the corporate life.

[Erai Sedai he/him]

Despatch manager at a company called Animal Supplies Wholesale. To date we're the largest pet food distributor in Australia.
So essentially I like to think i help keep pets alive (don't take this away from me)

[Ketek]

I'm doing a mass communication degree atm (majoring in broadcasting, minoring in journalism).

 

So when I've graduated I will officially become part of the evil Illuminati brainwashing you with lies and turning you into drooling sheeple a journalist, or so I hope.

[Voidus]

Biotech degree, so that I can breed Epic Inquisi-ponies and rule the world!!!
Or crops, crops are also good.

[Iredomi]

I'm in my last year of an undergraduate course for a Bachelor of Arts Majoring in English and History. Plan to go on to do Masters in Creative Writing next year hopefully.

[Guest]

I am an engineer, more specifically, I am an antenna designer    I work in a cubicle in front of a computer all-day.

[Eerongal he/him]

Software Engineer. Livin' the corporate life.

 

I do this as well. Software engineer, work for a large bank. Jobs not terribly exciting but the pay's good.

[Argent he/him]

I do this as well. Software engineer, work for a large bank. Jobs not terribly exciting but the pay's good.

 

Your company doesn't start the week with a bear hunt? That must be awfully boring...

[Atilium she/her]

Another homeschooler here! 

[Eerongal he/him]

Your company doesn't start the week with a bear hunt? That must be awfully boring...

 

Probably a good thing, too. Knowing my luck, I'd be eaten my first week on the job.

[Tien'sPetLurg she/her]

Punching green boxes for everyone! Hooray! 
 

Some of you are doing things that I just assumed happened by magic, ya know.

[Argent he/him]

In my experience, the fact that some people work in fields previously assumed to be handled by magic doesn't disprove the assumption - I thought software was magic before I starting creating it, and I am still convinced it's magic. Only of a much darker king, potentially involving baby and / or virgin sacrifices (I don't know these for a fact, I am not yet worthy of such power).

[Kobold King he/him]

In my experience, the fact that some people work in fields previously assumed to be handled by magic doesn't disprove the assumption - I thought software was magic before I starting creating it, and I am still convinced it's magic. Only of a much darker king, potentially involving baby and / or virgin sacrifices (I don't know these for a fact, I am not yet worthy of such power).

I knew it.

[Eerongal he/him]

In my experience, the fact that some people work in fields previously assumed to be handled by magic doesn't disprove the assumption - I thought software was magic before I starting creating it, and I am still convinced it's magic. Only of a much darker king, potentially involving baby and / or virgin sacrifices (I don't know these for a fact, I am not yet worthy of such power).

 

With the amount of times things suddenly go from "it's fine" to "it's borked for completely no reason whatsoever", magic is definitely a reasonable explanation sometimes. Sometimes I would swear that the phases of the moon determines what state your software is in.

[kari-no-sugata]

Bah... it's the "anti-bugs" that get me - when something works when it shouldn't. I hate those.

 

Well, maybe the thing I hate most is when a bug has messed up data in the database and need to clean it up... very very carefully. Had one last year that was really awkward and took about 4 weeks to fix all the bad data.

 

I currently work as a software developer at a medium sized enterprise company. All my previous jobs were at tiny companies, so this is quite a big change. Last job was at this live broadcast TV company where they needed all this backend software to make the show work - that was quite interesting since I got to do a huge variety of different things.

[Voidus]

Only a hobbyist programmer here but I definitely agree that it's either the phases of the moon or the alignment of the planets that spontaneously breaks code.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

By day, I'm a receptionist at a car dealership. By night, I'm a grad student working toward a Master's degree in Information Resources and Library Science. 

 

I haven't read them yet, but according to Alcatraz fans, I'm training to be an eeeviil librarian. But I don't feel evil….

[Argent he/him]

I haven't read them yet, but according to Alcatraz fans, I'm training to be an eeeviil librarian. But I don't feel evil….

 

You don't. Not in the beginning.

[Kasimir he/him]

I'm currently studying for a BA (Hons.) in philosophy (with the philosophy of science and technology as my current areas of specialisation) and working towards a minor in Science, Technology, and Society studies at the same time. At the moment, I'm also working part-time for my professor as a research assistant. So, peon work

Edited August 12, 2014 by Kasimir

[traceria she/her]

With the amount of times things suddenly go from "it's fine" to "it's borked for completely no reason whatsoever", magic is definitely a reasonable explanation sometimes. Sometimes I would swear that the phases of the moon determines what state your software is in.

The lady who checked me out at Lowes last night and was experiencing lag-time on her computer claimed the slowness was due to the Supermoon.  So, you know, could be. *shrug*

 

 

I'm a paralegal a/k/a legal assistant.  It's right smack in the middle of a secretary and an attorney.  We sometimes do things secretary-ish yet need to have a little more expertise and quite often do things you'd think would be left for a lawyer.  I've been one since 2003, a year after I got out of college.  The first year out, I taught high school math. I learned my introvertedness was bad enough that anxiety medicine was all that would keep me going with that high of a social-drain rate.  The stress skipped my brain and went straight to my body (elevated heart rate, got a lot of ear infections, etc.).  So glad that's in the past!  To keep the law thing in the family, my husband and father-in-law are both attorneys. 

[Guest]

 To keep the law thing in the family, my husband and father-in-law are both attorneys. 

 

Funny. My husband and my father are both engineers as well. I like to say we are a rational family We tend to like straight angles I sometimes look at my kids and think: "Poor kids, guess you are going to be stuck being geeky engineers as well now aren't you?"

[Argent he/him]

Lucky kids