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Topic: What do you do and where? (Read 571503 times)
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Hanzii
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Posts: 729
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Newseditor/copyeditor for a general pc magazine with a circulation around 150.000/mo.
I also review gadgets and the occasional game.
I like long walks and kicking puppies.
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Bruce
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jpark
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Posts: 1538
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Male, aged 38.
PhD (physiology - neuroscience) / MBA
I am a biotechnology / pharma stock analyst (investments doh). "Buy side" but have some "sell side" contacts. Some private equity contacts. On the buy side I deal with portfolio managers from both mutual funds and hedge funds.
Adjunct professorship at a local university. I still have some involvement with brain research at our regional trauma centre (old habits...)
Toronto, Ontario Canada.
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"I think my brain just shoved its head up its own ass in retaliation. " HaemishM.
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NiX
Wiki Admin
Posts: 7770
Locomotive Pandamonium
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Age: 20 Job: Selling games at EB. Until I decide whether or not I want to become a cop or actually apply myself to something safe. Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada.
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AlteredOne
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Posts: 357
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Male, 33. Information Technology project leader at a major pharma company.
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schmoo
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Posts: 171
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Retired/independently wealthy/too lazy to work.
Older than you.
Used to do an odd variety of techy and non-techy things for money, like programming, hardware repair, consulting, fine woodworking. I made ~800 ukuleles by hand in two years, my head exploded from the tedium, and I 'retired' to the country, where I play computer games, manage a small website for a non-profit, and complain about the weather.
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Soukyan
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Posts: 1995
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27, Male, Pennsylvania
Anti-Virus Administration/Tech Support for the IT department of a private university
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"Life is no cabaret... we're inviting you anyway." ~ Amanda Palmer"Tree, awesome, numa numa, love triangle, internal combustion engine, mountain, walk, whiskey, peace, pascagoula" ~ Lantyssa"Les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu'on a perdus." ~Marcel Proust
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Riggswolfe
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Posts: 8029
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33, Male, Oklahoma
BS in Computer Science
Working tech support for Cox Communications. A mind-numbingly boring job that pays the bills while I follow leads on "real" IT jobs. Sadly for me those are hard to come by in Oklahoma.
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"We live in a country, where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him and not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me! Explain that to me, God! Explain it to me, God!" - Denis Leary summing up my feelings about the nature of the universe.
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Raging Turtle
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Posts: 1885
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23, Male, Public School Teacher in South Korea.
Graduated from a US university with a degree in English Lit, which means I'm more qualified to be teaching than most of the native speakers over here, but still not exactly trained. I came here to travel the world a bit and see how much I like teaching. Traveling the world = double plus good. Teaching = usually rewarding, occasionally tediuos, very well paying (here), but in the long run, not for me. Which means I'll be leaving Korea once my contract is up, and then continue to wander the globe.
Formerly a heavy gamer. Now only play when the rest of my life slows down.
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CmdrSlack
Contributor
Posts: 4388
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28 Attorney Also back in school pursuing an LL.M. degree in IT Law & Privacy Policy...because you can never have enough loan debt.
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I traded in my fun blog for several legal blogs. Or, "blawgs," as the cutesy attorney blawgosphere likes to call 'em.
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ClydeJr
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Posts: 474
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Data warehousing analyst for an oil company in Houston, TX 30
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pants
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Posts: 588
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32 Senior Developer (ie fancy name for a codemonkey with a few years experience) for one of the larger Telcos here in Australia. Not particularly educated. Ayuh.
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AcidCat
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Posts: 919
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31 years old, office manager of a heating & air conditioning company in San Diego.
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Miguel
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Posts: 1292
कुशल
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Age: 30 Occupation: Field Applications Engineer (I help people design in semiconductor devices into their systems) Location: Bay Area, CA I also write and perform music on the side. Hopefully I'll get back to the F13 parody album sometime soon.
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“We have competent people thinking about this stuff. We’re not just making shit up.” -Neil deGrasse Tyson
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astralvoid
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...long time lurker, first time poster. Male, 35 -- Occupation: Systems Engineer (Hardware/software infrastructure design and implementation, or Unix Systems Admin for short ) Also a part-time student completing my Bachelors in CompSci. I love programming, but will not fool myself into thinking I can make more money by becoming a programmer! I appreciate you programmers out there who deliver these games...wel, many of these games anyways. hehe Ahh..it feels good to post! :-D
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Murgos
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Posts: 7474
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Code monkey for a not for profit publicly funded research/community support project.
Working on make a lat move over to an ultra low power CMOS research project starting up in a few months (Mmm, post grad work in a commercially relevant engineering subject, how rare is that?).
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"You have all recieved youre last warning. I am in the process of currently tracking all of youre ips and pinging your home adressess. you should not have commencemed a war with me" - Aaron Rayburn
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MrHat
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Posts: 7432
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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23, half arab male living in Denver.
Graduated last year with a BS in Electrical Engineering. Worked since then in business selling various things. Discovered secret to my life is contract jobs with big gaming binges between them. The benefits suck, but the pay is good. Currently enganged to an extremely intelligent lady who will make the phat lewtz.
Will you be my friend?
Macallan 18 2 rocks.
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Mr_PeaCH
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Posts: 382
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Male, 37 System Administrator & all-around IT Guru San Diego
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COME ON YOU SPURS!
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HRose
I'm Special
Posts: 1205
VIKLAS!
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26 Italy Time waster Awake from 8PM till 12AM
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MuffinMan
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Posts: 1789
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22, Male, Michigan Circuit City lackey Going to college for BS in Electrical Engineering
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I'm very mysterious when I'm inside you.
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Azhrarn
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Posts: 114
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Male, 22 I play games.
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I came here to be drugged, electrocuted, and probed. Not insulted! - H.S.
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El Gallo
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Posts: 2213
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Male, 31, married
Attorney (lot of us around here it seems)
Washington DC
Sapphire & tonic.
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This post makes me want to squeeze into my badass red jeans.
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shiznitz
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Posts: 4268
the plural of mangina
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Finance guy.
NY suburbs.
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« Last Edit: October 31, 2005, 12:07:45 PM by shiznitz »
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I have never played WoW.
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Joe
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Posts: 291
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Fulltime mother of two.
Editor, Warcry.
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Sky
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Posts: 32117
I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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System Admin, aged 34 years, no degrees/certs; experience, baby!
Just my day job until I save enough to buy a ranch and build a music studio, which, at my salary, should be sometime in early 2143. Retired professional musician.
Edit: Forgot to mention: favorite drink: ice cold beer.
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Righ
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Posts: 6542
Teaching the world Google-fu one broken dream at a time.
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38. Computer security administrator somewhere shite, near Princeton, NJ.
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The camera adds a thousand barrels. - Steven Colbert
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Stephen Zepp
Developers
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InstantAction
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36 Independent Consultant (Healthcare IT, Integration Engineering) by day, Independent Game Developer by night/weekends. Social Life: Non-existant.
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Rumors of War
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Xerapis
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Counterintelligence Agent, US Army currently stationed in Seoul, Republic of Korea
30 years old
screwdriver, preferably with Tropicana (no pulp) and Smirnoff Blue Label
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..I want to see gamma rays. I want to hear x-rays. I want to...smell dark matter...and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me...
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Cuular
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Posts: 26
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40, Male
Senior System administrator/Database Administrator/Network Administrator/Satelite office PC support For a large software firm in Southern California.
Favorite drink: Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee with 2% milk added.
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RhyssaFireheart
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Female, 37 Chicagoland, IL Project Management Assistant for HP (and to think I spent 7.5 years in college getting a degree in art!) Malibu Rum and pineapple juice (although orange juice works in a pinch)
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Ardent
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I've been alive for 33 years, but maturity-wise, I'm an infant.
For money I write technical documents for a software company in Irvine, California. Yes, I'm the guy who writes the help files you people never read.
In my spare time, I game (online and PnP) and write novels that will never get published.
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Um, never mind.
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Kenrick
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age: 25 degree: BA Telecommunications (Baylor Univ) job: I work at a scheduling desk for a 3rd party service provider for dell. I'm mircomanaged and the pay is complete fucking shit. I could have done this job when I was 12.
Sorry, I didn't realize we were supposed to include favorite drink or whatnot... My favorite adult beverage is single malt scotch whiskey. My fiancee got me a bottle of Glenlivet for Valentine's Day (we opened our gifts early :-D)
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Murgos
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For money I write technical documents for a software company in Irvine, California. Yes, I'm the guy who writes the help files you people never read.
As long as you don't write the help files for Microsoft products we're cool. I have a whole list of painful atrocities I'm going visit on the first one of them fuckers I come across. Like we'll sit down at a computer and look for help on X and everywhere in that help file it says to see Y and then in the Y help file says to see X I'm going to stick a rusty pin in thier eye. I'm going to need a lot of pins.
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"You have all recieved youre last warning. I am in the process of currently tracking all of youre ips and pinging your home adressess. you should not have commencemed a war with me" - Aaron Rayburn
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jlwilli5
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WA State|35|male -- Professional lurker by day...Surgical Tech whenever Doing the back to school thing. Is it me or is it easier the older you get? Chinese Green Tea
Well back to lurking.....
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Target Erukul
EvE: Lukure Karsys
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Hanzii
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Posts: 729
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For money I write technical documents for a software company in Irvine, California. Yes, I'm the guy who writes the help files you people never read.
As long as you don't write the help files for Microsoft products we're cool. I have a whole list of painful atrocities I'm going visit on the first one of them fuckers I come across. Like we'll sit down at a computer and look for help on X and everywhere in that help file it says to see Y and then in the Y help file says to see X I'm going to stick a rusty pin in thier eye. I'm going to need a lot of pins. I wholeheartedly disagree. If it wasn't for badly written documentation, I would be out of a job. We can sell 150.000+ issues 17 times a year teaching people how to do stuff in Windows, Word and a number of other supposedly welldocumented applications. And we make a lot of money doing it.
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I would like to discuss this more with you, but I'm not allowed to post in Politics anymore.
Bruce
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Catalan
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Spanish, 30 Unix Admin, programmer, BOFH and general crisis solver for university IT services. (That would account for 10% of my 35 hrs/week, rest is board lurking)
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