I'm a software engineer.. although technically not an engineer since I don't have an engineering degree, but I have been programming professionally since 1993 after learning basic on my vic20 in 1981, and C on my A1200 in 1992. I sort of lucked into a C programming job, and once you get one job you are set for the next... so it went like that for the past 15 years.
Like most programmers I've programmed in so many languages now it doesn't even matter anymore which one I use... but currently I am writing back end Java Enterprise applications for a credit card company. Mostly for batch order processing and activations.
Our back end consists of about 15 linux boxes running mysql, apache, JBoss, a bunch of security packages, and recenty we dumped all of our windows desktops for macbook pros.
We work from home now 50% of the time but nothing lasts forever.
I hope I never have to go back to Windows programming.
If I could pick a job, it would be assembly programming on a C64... unfortunately I don't see many ads for that job these days
