Sooooo what do you do?

[Piru]

I am working as information security specialist in a IT service company Tieto. I live in Helsinki, Finland. Basically I audit information systems and applications. In short: I break into computer systems with permission.

[Retro_71]

Piru wrote:
In short: I break into computer systems with permission.

:-D   :-D  :-D   :bow:
Now that would be lots of fun...

[NovaCoder]

Hiya Piru, love your work BTW  :-D

I'm a coder (my username kind of gives it away).  I work for a government agency in sunny old Oz developing extremly boring Java Web applications.

[AmiDelf]

Hi. Outside of Amigaworld, I am doing a travel site called www.distrita.com, well.. not entierly non-Amiga as most of graphics is done with TvPaint but also Photoshop etc.



Other than this, I am a part of a Japaneese filmclub at the University of Oslo. Showing all kinds of anime series and films each Friday. My favorite anime of all time is Now and Then, Here and There (picture) and One Piece.

I am also a member of TSP - The Shadow Project, then I am a part of LTF - Local Trafic Forum so my next hobby to Amiga and watching Japaneese cartoons is trainspotting.



I also love to go out and eat new types of food. Love to taste if I like new stuff or not.

In the end I want to work with TV graphics. That's idents, promos and more or as an graphic artist using TvPaint. I would also work for climate as that is something that I burn for too. I am also a part of Venstre, The Liberal Party of Norway. I haven't been so active there, went to one meeting But I will try to do something with that in the future.

That's me,.. ohh.. and I have a Playstation 3 and a dead Dreamcast I wish that it worked. Loved it so much... well.. needs to have a look on ebay sometime.

[J-Golden]

Hey AmiDelf, have you heard of the Anime Monster or one called Mu-shi-shi?  I like me a giant beat-em up, but these really get your mind going in very very different ways...  just thought I'd throw it out there.

[motorollin]

I used to work in IT (desktop support), but gave it up in 2007 to train as a Speech and Language Therapist. I will qualify in May 2010. I am struggling to finish my album, though after buying all the software I use and commissioning the cover art, I will probably end up making a loss on it ;-)

--
moto

[lofstudio]

Been in the graphic arts industry for about 23 years, from screenprinting to animation. Also was a radio DJ for about 15 years. I work in Mobile, Alabama at a music company.

I got started in computers in 1980. I'd walk to the VAX lab at Auburn University after school (the benefits of growing up in a college town!), then moved on to Commodores... Vic, 64, A500 and 4000. I got into Macs from having to use an Emplant in the 4000 while working as a contract designer for a magazine. Still use an Amiga... mainly E-UAE on an iMac, but just got a 1200 to play around with.

[Zero]

Wow some great people on here!

I've been using Amiga's since early 90's
I still use mine all the time, although forever buying and selling bits of them!

I'm a musician, mainly guitarist/songwriter for a band called Crimson Sky.

Links;

Crimson Sky
http://web.me.com/crimsonsky
http://www.myspace.com/crimsonskybristol
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Crimson-Sky/7144283708

Crimson Sky Forum
http://crimsonzero.proboards52.com/index.cgi
 
Crimson Sky Videos
http://uk.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=CrimsonSkyUK

 :-)

[JC]

Well, I work at an appliance store but I used to write articles and game reviews for the Amiga Informer, Amazing Computing/Amiga and a few online Amiga publications. I still have several Amigas that I play around with and just moved into a larger house with a proper room where I plan to have as many as possible set up to use. I still much prefer using Amiga over any other computer.

[wawrzon]

im visual artist. well, i do mostly paint, since i cant code properly (only simple scripts), but ive done some video installations technically based on amigas. one of them is probably still touring around the world as part of an exhibition "kunstraum deutschland" organized by german institut for foreign contacts (ifa).  

here is a screenshot:
http://www.ifa.de/ausstellungen/ausstellungen-im-ausland/bk/kunstraum-deutschland/wawrzyniec-tokarski/
(not a very good one, but since the work uses random patterns u never know what u will get)

[save2600]

Great thread! I've been into commercial coin-op restoration most my life for the private sector. Pinball, shuffle alley bowler, video and electro-mechanical arcade sales and service. Have dabbled in professional photography and music as a drummer for a 50's-80's themed cover band too. Still drum, do it for fun, but currently no longer part of a band. Will get back to making money at it someday for sure.

Was in "love" with the Amiga since day one and have owned several each of EVERY model except the A3000. Used them back in the day for sequencing/digitising various music projects and genlock'd wedding videos for cash on the side. Oh, how could I forget... used 'em lots for gaming too  :-)  I still have a massive magazine collection and it's fun to look through them, see what things cost and reminisce about better times.

For a large percentage of my adult life, sold computers & electronics at various stores too. At Montgomery Ward's (being married to a VP's daughter), I helped convince our computer buyer to sell Amiga's as part of a test in their latest and greatest 'Electric Avenue' store. Sadly, in the buyers finite wisdom, the A500, 501 expansion, 1011 and 1084 were about the only lines we "stocked" or could get. This would have been late 80's, when the term multimedia was being defined. PERFECT opportunity for Commodore to have a large presence in a serious consumer electronic store. Even though i was on 100% commission, did my damndest to sell A500 packages for $1k vs. PeeCee clones w/ CD-ROMS for $4k. I have always been that passionate and enthusiastic about Amiga! lol  It didn't matter. Between Ward's and Commodores replenishment/support system - was completely botched anyway. I've witnessed first hand how a superior concept and product could give way to inferior concepts and products thanks to inept companies and managers. Perhaps if we sold A2000's with CD-ROMS, HD's and accelerators... things *might* have been different. Oh, and people would return their A500's before too long anyway, since software was "hard" to find.  

Anyway, now that I've got my Miggy systems pretty much tweaked out, looking forward to actually using and enjoying them again!! VERY easy to get caught up in the hardware aspect of modding, adding on, tweaking, etc. As most others know... 'because we can'  :-)    

[AJCopland]

Seems like everyones either creative of a geek (in a good way!) :-D

Might as well add one more geek to the pile.

I'm a code monkey working for a computer games company in Nottingham, UK. I've been doing this stuff at what they laughably call a professional level for almost 6 years now.

I got into the Amiga right after having a C64 as a friends father ran a small computer sales company and got us a returned A500 on the cheap (only way i'd have ever got one, we were a bit broke)! That lasted me for many years until I got a little part-time job when I was 14 and saved up for a 3rd hand 486 PC since I couldn't afford an A1200 or anything better :-(

I kept the Amiga500 of course and still have it! I ended up doing a lot of Amiga repairs and when people got fed up of the machines they simply gave them to me. Hence I now have 2xA500s, A500+, A600, A1200 and a CD32... why oh why does no-one give away big-box Amigas huh!?!?! :crazy:

That's pretty much it. I've got a few released titles on a bunch of different platforms and I'm hardware/software agnostic nowadays. I just have a soft spot for my Amigas :-)

Andy

EDIT: Since others have mentioned it I'm also rather into Anime/Manga etc

[Tenacious]

I'm a Noodler in the Ohio valley region. I suppliment that by servicing industrial automation and controls around the country.

I bought my first Amiga 500 in 1988 after passing a store front with a 500 and an XT both running Battle Chess in demo mode.  I was hooked imediately and have been every since.

My other interests are amateur astronomy, sailing, and antique technology. I have rescued treadle sewing machines, tube-type radios, Hp calculators and computers, a magic lantern, Betamaxes, hand powered tools, and many Amigas.  The wife and kids are kind about this stuff.  We all understand that some it now needs a new home. Grin.

[amigakidd]

I live in the big apple and work in the advertising industry. Sucks. I'm currently unemployed right now.

Good thing is I can focus on my Amiga hobby.
I'm also an Amiga gamer

[crass84]

lots of interesting carrers on hear me i am a lowely construction worker/roofing been messing about with amigas since 86  still here and no intentions of giving my miggy up based in london
;-)  ;-)

[Methuselas]

Currently, I'm not married, nor dating. I'm working as a colorist for DC Comics, do 3D modeling as contract work and edit pr0n for independent companies in Premiere. I just got another A500, back in December 2007, but I haven't turned it on in well over a year. Mostly, I work in UAE if I need to do something Amiga.

I'll buy a new Amiga when it's either X86 or it's not on a sub-par "embedded board" that costs the same as a decent PC.


[EDIT] - I am also in an EBM band, doing programming and vocals. I track a lot of music to pr0n videos.