What do you do for a living?

gnuageux · Veteran Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 1201

Hey all, sitting here at work and I began wondering if most of you guys frequent the forums from work at home at school? If from work what do you do? Stupid I know, but I was curious.
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saebla · n00b Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 48 Location: Sweden

I work at tech support for an ISP, besides studying to be a computer engineer.. so I have quite alot of time to browse these forums

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placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

Well, I was interviewed for a tech support job at a local ISP and everything went well, but they chose someone else. :\ So basically I work for myself coding my site. lol

gnuageux · Veteran Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 1201

Cool, I work @ an ISP/Webhost/Colocation Facility as one of the admins in the NOC. So Ive got plenty of time to browse these babies too!
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saebla · n00b Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 48 Location: Sweden

well i work at 1st line support wich means that I get to solve all the tedious problems with customers having configured their win95 wrong and such.. not that much fun really.. good thing it's just a temporary job 'til i'm done with school.. thinking of working as an admin in unix environment.. I have a friend who does that and it seems pretty cool.
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gnuageux · Veteran Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 1201

Weve got quite a few production servers running Solaris. If youre not used to unix it isnt that bad, just linux really is a lot more "user friendly" - I.e using vi in linux opposed to unix is apples and oranges. We handle (my group) all of the backend administration for our webhosting platform which consists mainly of Redhat (some version or another, standard & enterprise configs). It can be pretty interesting. We also deal (not often) w/ IIS as well. I'd like to find a job where i could play with exclusively *nix but as of yet, no go.

Good luck. (oh, we also do a little networking, LOL)

And btw - I did tier1 support for a while when I was in school, I feel ur pain! LOL
I once was walking a customer thru configuring OE and we got the screen where it prompts her for her name, so I said "enter your name", she replied "how do I spell that?" . . .sigh.
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Imek · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 11:32 am Post subject:

I'm doing my second year at 6th form now (ages 16 - 18), then I'm planning to go to Uni, so I'm not going to be working full time for a living for a while yet. And unfortunately I can't browse the forums from school because they're blocked. :S
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andrew_j_w · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Posts: 534 Location: York, UK

I'm studying for my PhD in Computer Science at the moment. I also get paid to write websites for other departments in my spare time (ColdFusion sucks!), to make ends meet.

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mattjgalloway · l33t Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 761 Location: Coventry, UK

I'm a student studying Engineering (General for the first 2 years then I'll probably specialise in Electronics in 3rd and 4th year) at Cambridge Uni, UK.

I am working at Altair Engineering (www.uk.altair.com) at the moment for work experience. It's a good laugh and I've been helping with CAE of a couple of cars coming out in 2006! Top fun!
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gnuageux · Veteran Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 1201

mattjgalloway: Sounds awesome!
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stormcrowley · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 11:57 am Post subject:

I work as a helpdesk night shift person for a healthcare company, answering pleas for help from doctors and nurses and such.

It's normally pretty quiet here during the night shift, so I listen to music and write, usually.

Anior · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 12:11 pm Post subject:

Dup :-P
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=701788

But I've switched job since then, working as a sys admin at the Swedish Defence Research Agency now.

EzInKy · Veteran Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 1742 Location: Kentucky

Yep, this one comes up every now and then. I'm still a Registered Nurse and most of my browsing is when I'm off.
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gnuageux · Veteran Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 1201

https://forums.gentoo.org/search.php
May have been a good idea

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jjasghar · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 3:59 pm Post subject:

i'm a unix op in a major corporation in the US. it's a pretty dull job but it gives me time to do training and hopefully refine my skills into something else. i'm slowly noticing that i'm now almost ALWAYS on these forums, being that they block ssh and any form of chat client. but hey i try to help where i can.
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Slyde · Guru Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 314

I am actually a part time adult film producer/actor.

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Boris27 · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 4:05 pm Post subject:

I study computer sciences.

I applied for tech support at an ISP, but they don't employ people directly. You have to get in via an agency. I hate agencies.
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gnuageux · Veteran Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 1201

Slyde: Get me a job. Ill work for free!
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jjasghar · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 4:15 pm Post subject:

lagrima · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 4:15 pm Post subject:

tech support and graveyard shift fort holder on a small isp
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den_RDC · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 4:25 pm Post subject:

Officially i do Mission critical monitoring & logging & some associated work for a very big IT company with a female CEO (easy to guess) in the EMEA region.
Unofficialy - i don't have a lot of work - high end equipment is surprisingly stable

edit : also shifts .. the graveyard shift rules btz (think divx)
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playfool · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 4:31 pm Post subject:

I'm an author

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gnuageux · Veteran Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 1201

He didnt say starving author. who else hates emoticons?-----> :lol:

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