What do you do and where?

[Pococurante]

There is an opening for a six-month contract at my corp in The ATL, if you are into that.  And know a lot about AIX.

Hehe thanks.  I don't. :)  OTOH it's great sleeping in, annoying the wife by not shaving (no one else notices but her! :P ), and keeping up with my bee hives and grape arbor.

Work is overrated.  I'm so freaking ready for retirement.

[Raging Turtle]

I totally missed Raging Turtle's post above.

At what age does that start becoming creepy? Because I'm dying for that job.

College girls in swimsuits. Overweight 100% male engineering staff. Tough choice.

College girls are 18. That never gets creepy.

[Signe]

You do know that will end up as someone's avatard, don't you?

[sigil]

Mobile, Alabama - 34

Network Administrator for a regional alcoholic beverage distributor.

[edlavallee]

A little late to the party...

I am nearly 40, and I work in IT for a very large automobile manufacturer located in Michigan, USA.

[Yegolev]

Mobile, Alabama - 34

Network Administrator for a regional alcoholic beverage distributor.

My brother attended two universities in Mobile before relocating to Brooklyn.  I was once asked to please get out of the Mardi Gras parade.  Nice town.

[sigil]

My brother attended two universities in Mobile before relocating to Brooklyn.  I was once asked to please get out of the Mardi Gras parade.  Nice town.

I came back to finish my studies here after UofA and Georgetown.

It's especially nice for  10 Weeks in Winter and Spring and 5 weeks in the Fall. Currently we are in the 95 degrees with max humidity season.

The locals don't cotton to outsiders entering their little societal cliques when it comes to Mardi Gras. I swear, some people around here. . .  if they devoted as much money to improving the community as they do in floats, throws, costumes and mardi gras balls, we'd be fucking Eden on earth.

Well, except for the whole hurricane thing.

[WayAbvPar]

Currently we are in the 95 degrees with max humidity season.

Jeebus. I think I would be praying for non-stop hurricanes.

[Sky]

Bah, it's 90s and humid here in NY, too. OMG GLOBAL WARMING

[Righ]

More beer for the robots!

Yeah, I've linked it before. And I'll link it again too.

[WindiaN]

i played the entourage game with my dad yesterday, we watched as the temperature outside the car climbed to 106!

Might as well introduce myself, i'm 19 and a college student and i'm interning this summer for a hedge fund in new york city.

[Cadaverine]

33, doing sales for Qwest in Omaha, NE while they pay for me to go back to school for a degree in 3d animation and design.
Favorite drinks: Beamish, Youngs Double Chocolate Stout and I'm working on developing a taste for Irish whiskey and/or Scotch whisky if anyone has some suggestions as to whats good

[Signe]

I suggest removing the "e" in "whiskey" when referring to the kind made in Scotland.  Other than that, I suggest Righ or Ironwood help you.  I'm sure they're both whisky lushes.

[Engels]

33, doing sales for Qwest in Omaha, NE while they pay for me to go back to school for a degree in 3d animation and design.
Favorite drinks: Beamish, Youngs Double Chocolate Stout and I'm working on developing a taste for Irish whiskey and/or Scotch whisky if anyone has some suggestions as to whats good

Glenlivet is a great great starter scotch. And a finisher scotch. Basically, to get a better scotch you have to spend twice as much, and even then you can end up with some funky-arsed thing with a 'nose' that's overhyped because some sauced up ponce said so at a tasting.

Glenfiddich is the Spice Girls of scotch.

Oh ya. 36, IT work for a non-profit transitional housing agency for homeless in Seattle WA. I'm regrettably a teetotaller now, for health reasons. Dang I miss scotch.

[Surlyboi]

Aberlour, you right gits.

[Prospero]

Amen Surlyboi. Balvenie 12 yr double wood is also quite tasty.

[Engels]

Aberlour, you right gits.

If Speyside is your thing. More of a highland guy myself.

From the Aberlour website's own description:

Nose
The dry, fresh, fruity aromas of early autumn apples and pears are subtly enhanced with sweet notes of vanilla and mint toffee.

See, right there, I know they're putting on airs.

[voodoolily]

Aberlour, you right gits.

If Speyside is your thing. More of a highland guy myself.

From the Aberlour website's own description:

Nose
The dry, fresh, fruity aromas of early autumn apples and pears are subtly enhanced with sweet notes of vanilla and mint toffee.

See, right there, I know they're putting on airs.

that sounds lovely. Scotch is such a gentlemanly pursuit, innit?

[Engels]

that sounds lovely. Scotch is such a gentlemanly pursuit, innit?

Any scottsman who knows what the aroma of an early autumn apple smells like is wearing a kilt for fabulous fashion, is my guess. What hoary macho scottsman can tell the difference between the subtle scents of an early autumn apple, and a late autumn apple. or a mid february raisin. or last year's stale sheep's fart for that matter?

[Signe]

What is a Scottman?

[voodoolily]

What is a Scottman?

It's like a robut, but hairier.

[Engels]

What is a Scottman?

:P Fixed the typo.

[Signe]

Sooo... what is a Scottsman?   

[murdoc]

REALLY late to the show but...

30, Calgary, Canada.

Doing network admin for a Foreign Currency Exchange while they pay for my CCNA. Once I get my experience, I go across the street to work in Oil and Gas.

[Signe]

Oil and Gas?  You mean like OGI?  Ooooh... 

[voodoolily]

Signe, what the hell do you do? Are you a Kept Woman? Ohmygod you are, aren't you?

[Sky]

I wish I were a kept man. I miss being in a band and just crashing at various beauty's houses.

Ok, maybe not so much.

[HaemishM]

I long to be a kept man. As long as it doesn't involve sweaty manbuttsex.

[Mr_PeaCH]

Anyone else ever done the "be careful what you wish for, you might get it" route where jobs are concerned?

Couple years ago I was heading for an inevitable layoff with an IT company working as internal support jack-of-all-trades systems admin guy for the corporate office; they were outsourcing.  So along comes a guy who I used to work with and he proposes we start up our own IT company.  We work things out and because he has significantly deeper pockets that I do, I agree to become his employee so I can be paid, but essentially we're partners.  He's the 'brains' and the marketing meet-and-greet guy and I'm the 'brawn' doing all the work for the clients.  There is a lot of trust between us, and I'm being quite well paid and in short, the job is almost everything I've ever wanted.  My partner is generating a lot of business for us; in fact we just hired another technician full time and are considering having to add another guy or two by the end of the year.  Next best thing to being my own boss, practically independent, and the hours aren't even bad.  And oh, the sweet irony... we went back to my former company and bid on the outsourced office support contract and won and they pay well.

So what do I have to complain about... I'm driving everywhere all the time.  And not even the cost of gas (though it's painful; believe me)... I'm just sick and tired of commuting and driving for hours and hours every day and hundreds of miles every week.  That and I get a little stressed with managing client expectations all the time.

So I'm strongly considering getting a 'real job' again where I'll be a little cog in the big machine working for 'the man'... if only so I can cut down on my commute time.

Will I ever find happiness as an IT professional?  Woe is me.

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Director of Technical Services for a start-up IT consulting and support business with a focus on small to medium sized business clients working all over San Diego county.

[Engels]

My suggestion is you start adopting an IT manager approach and start delegating. My boss used to be an IT tech, now she's so woefully out of the loop she has to delegate to me for 80 percent of the work. Guess who takes more vacations, doesn't have to travel and gets paid best? As long as you insist on personal supervision of all projects you're going to remain as overworked as a GeekSqad lackey.

[Signe]

Signe, what the hell do you do? Are you a Kept Woman? Ohmygod you are, aren't you?

I am a princess.

[Lantyssa]

You're looking a little thin.  Here, have something to eat.

[Morfiend]

I work as Sys-admin for a Image Archive and Editorial Agency. In short we represent photographers all over the world. They send us their pictures, we put them in our database, and also send them to buyers all over the world. Our image selection runs the gambit from Celebs to hardcore War photos, and every thing in between.

We also publish a photography magazine www.doubletruck.com and we run serveral websites where you can get hardhitting picture stories www.zreportage.com

My job is to make sure all the computers in the officer and at the datacenter run the way they are supposed to. Which could be anything from reinstalling photoshop on a workstation to installing a new RAID at the colo. I also am in charge of our picture filtering system, which makes sure the correct images get sent to the correct sub agents around the world. Which is much tougher than it sounds, considering we have over 1000 different photographers and agents that we rep, and about 50% of those have restriction as to where they can be sent.

I am also majorly underpaid, but I am not quitting until I get at least 2 years experiance with servers and IT.

[voodoolily]

Anyone else ever done the "be careful what you wish for, you might get it" route where jobs are concerned?

Yeah, today I had to hike 5.7 miles across beautiful canyons of manzanita, Oregon white oak and madrone looking for intermittent streams and wetlands. Actually, I paint a pretty picture but the hike was rugged and brutal. 45+% slopes, very rocky terrain with thickets of poison oak and buckbrush (a woody, spiny hellish shrub that scratches you deeply from the neck down). It was 85 degrees out and the dust sticks in clumps to your sweat and sunscreen. I ran out of water AND cigarettes. Today was an 11 hour day, 7.5 of which was spent hiking non-stop. I know, the grass is always greener on the other side, but I am exhausted. And I have to do it again tomorrow. And the next day. For the next 7 days.

The big problem with today is that I was in an area of ORegon that has amazing agates, geodes and some malachite-esque copper ore that I couldn't stop picking up and stuffing into my field vest. I added about ten pounds of weight onto my back because I'm a greedy rockhound.

[Strazos]

Anyone else ever done the "be careful what you wish for, you might get it" route where jobs are concerned?

Sounds like my security jobs. I do practically nothing when I go to work - I read books and play on my DS, or occasionally write. Heck, recently the sysadmin "goofed" and our workstation has internet access, so I use it occasionally.

That job is so fucking boring and pointless that it hurts. Talking to my "boss" (no one knows what she actually does) makes me physically ill.