What do you do for a living?

[yssing]

Wau, there are a lot of different and interesting careers out there.

Currently I work as a HW/SW supporter and maintenance For KiMs, the Danish chips/crisp makers. So I pretty much spend most of my time inhaling spicy fumes

I also do webdevelopment and I try to do some amiga games.

I am a spare time Ninja and a bum..

[vic20owner]

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

[T3000]

Offset Printshop Operator
Have been in the graphics industry since 1977. (that would be just outta highschool) Been working with the same equipment for the past 23 years and am on my 3rd owner.

[GreggBz]

For the last three years, I've been a system admin for the local cable company. I work mostly on Cisco and Unix systems.

I write computer games in my spare time.

[hooligan]

Im God. I try to run things on Planet Earth.

[Wain]

I'm a composer for orchestra, theatre, film, and games.  I also work as a classical vocalist, and write and front for my own band project.

I used to be the lead software architect at a small computer engineering firm (job was more code monkey than CS), now I've finally managed to severely excise most computer stuff from my world, although I do follow the technology and developments ravenously.

[Andeda]

Im a service manager in a small company which sells and repairs cellphones.

[Kronos]

hooligan wrote:
Im God. I try to run things on Planet Earth.

I'm Beelzebub. I try to ruin things on Planet Earth ...... :roll:

Honest answer:

As little as possible.

Official answer:

Building cranes.

[amigadave]

tomswift wrote:
Crew Chief on the F-4 and U-2 for 20 years.  Retired from the USAF 10 years ago.  Work currently for the U.S.Postal Service.

Are you a Masochist or something?  Who in their right mind would want to retire and then work in an environment like the U.S. Postal service???  :crazy:

I feel for you and hope you get out alive without being scarred for the rest of your life.     :-o

[N7VQM]

Programming and project coordination at an Audio/Video electronics company.  I write code for our networked RS232 control products.  Lately, I've been branching off into .NET programming.  For the rest of it, I disposition and prioritize bugs and feature requests for a few software products as well as being the interface between the devs and everyone else.

[AmiGeezer]

I'm a senior software architect mainly in Lotus Notes but dabble in web design and moving to .NET and Sharepoint.

Used to do Delphi development prior to that.

Matt

[AJCopland]

Software Engineer at a games company and under no illusions that it could leave any time for any Amiga coding :-(

[tomswift]

Yes I know.  All those years in the Air Force thinking, "I'll retire and work only eight hours a day where the only stress will be deciding which little pigeon hole to stick the piece of mail in."  Boy Howdy!  What a worthless piece of crap of a place to work.  I've been in automation as a clerk for the last eight years.  Good pay?  Sure.  Good benefits? Sure.  Live to 65?  Probably not.  Management who couldn't manage their way out of a wet paper bag & who's only way to fix things is by forcing people to work their days off or overtime.  At least it's given me the means to pursue my hobby of collecting Amiga's.  Yes I can quit, and the first $30 an hour job that comes along, I'm out of here.  

[coldfish]

I'm a Product Designer.

'worked on kids toys for 8 years, now I do part-time freelance on a variety of fairly interesting innovations/inventions (all covered by NDAs).

In the future, I'm hoping to move into film props and the like, where I can let the imagination free and not have to follow humdrum manufacturing standards.

Or maybe something completely different?

[Jupp3]

I am a software engineer at TietoEnator, doing mostly Linux & OpenGL related work.

[dammy]

Are you a Masochist or something? Who in their right mind would want to retire and then work in an environment like the U.S. Postal service???

Depends on which craft he is (some are far worse then others) and what Federal retirement system he was under with USAF.  Federal Thrift Saving Plan rocks, I can see working for that and the rest of the benefits.  He's probably going to buy back his military time for retirement from USPS since he is probably planning to work for USPS for atleast 10 years to be vested.  So atleast 10 years of USPS plus buyback of military time equals retiring after 30+ years of postal work plus his Social Security, plus the Thirft plan (like 401K) and he'll be pretty set. :cheers:

Dammy