What do you do for a living?

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

What are you going to do next Orfy...brew for a living...go on, you know you want to!!!

BTW, I'm a Stress Engineer...not good for, erm, stress levels! Used to be a University Lecturer...don't know why I gave that life up!

Do you engineer ways to BE stressed or ways to Avoid stress???

I'm guessing with brewing as a hobby, it's the later.

 

[madrean]

Right now I am a onsite Engineer for a semiconductor tool manufacturer. I love my work for I get to troubleshoot mechanics, robotics, hydrolics, plasmas and all sorts of other stuff. The hardest part of my job is dealing with my customers. Right now I am supporting Intel's new fabs in Arizona. The stress can be high but then again I only work 2 weeks out of a month Plenty of time for brewing

wouldn't happen to work for TEL would you??

 

[AHammer16]

I work at a veterinary sugrical specialty hospital. Lotz o' blood and guts stuff. Any body need some spare animal testicles?

 

[BlightyBrewer]

Do you engineer ways to BE stressed or ways to Avoid stress???

I'm guessing with brewing as a hobby, it's the later.

Cannot avoid stress....only minimise it to below the point of "cracking up"!

 

[dancingbarefoot]

I'm a graduate student. Not much money in it, sadly.

 

[El Pistolero]

I'm a graduate student. Not much money in it, sadly.

Back in the day (mid 70's) we used to get $450 per month, which was pretty much top end for TA's. Somehow that was enough...usually even had extra to buy a couple of albums every month. Now I make that in a half a day, and I have less disposable income than I had back then. Except for the kids, I'd swap places with you in a heartbeat.

 

[BlightyBrewer]

Holy Moly! You make $900 a day!!!!

 

[El Pistolero]

Holy Moly! You make $900 a day!!!!

Yeah, if I manage to bill out a full eight hours...but that's hard to do as much time as I spend here.

 

[BlightyBrewer]

So, what do you do for your $900/day El. P?

 

[El Pistolero]

Write f*&^#$ing software. After 30+ years, I am really f*#^$ing tired of writing software.

Sorry...I know I shouldn't shoot the messenger, and on top of that I should count my blessings.

Still tho...I really, really hate software.

 

[Radarbrew]

Retired from the AF after 20. (BTW, thanks to all who still do the job) I was an ECM guy, kept planes from being hit by missles. Got a job in Alaska, my last posting, working an Electronic Training range for aircraft. Fix radars (hence the name), and in general try to "shoot down" aircraft with simulated missles and guns.
My job "office" is in about 2000 sq. miles of Alaskan wilderness, my radar door looks out over a valley and a hidden creek full of Arctic Grayling. My next door neighbors are moose, lynx, millions of squirrels, and a mated pair of ravens who come around looking for food. And the pay is good....

 

[BlightyBrewer]

Write f*&^#$ing software. After 30+ years, I am really f*#^$ing tired of writing software.

Sorry...I know I shouldn't shoot the messenger, and on top of that I should count my blessings.

Still tho...I really, really hate software.

Sorry El.P. Didn't mean to press my finger on that raw nerve.

 

[El Pistolero]

Sorry El.P. Didn't mean to press my finger on that raw nerve.

You didn't...SWMBO has had her thumb grinding into that nerve daily for 20 of those 30 years.

 

[anthrobe]

wouldn't happen to work for TEL would you??

Nope, Applied Materials.

 

[madrean]

i worked for amat when i was in college (PVD chamber build line). boy, i hated that job! (not that the place was bad, just didn't like what i was doing).

when i got all gradyuaded i got a job with TEL in austin.

3 years later, i got laid off!!! nothin' like the high tech sector.

 

[anthrobe]

i worked for amat when i was in college (PVD chamber build line). boy, i hated that job! (not that the place was bad, just didn't like what i was doing).

when i got all gradyuaded i got a job with TEL in austin.

3 years later, i got laid off!!! nothin' like the high tech sector.

I have been working on the Endura for 6 years now. Funny that a whole lot of final test guys are now making it out into the field for they are tired of the crap in Austin. If I could do it all over again, I would have stayed clear of semiconductor.

 

[Tony]

Im in Corporate Security.

My dad raced Greyhounds for a living, and I was into that until my 20's, then worked as a heavy line mechanic for Pontiac. I got tired of that and then worked on 4 X 4's in a custom shop. They closed down after a few years, and ended up doing light machine work on German fighter jet turbine parts until the job was farmed out to Canada. Then I decided to leave my blue collar roots behind and moved into the corporste world. I'll be doing this now until I retire.

 

[SWMBO]

I'm an army reservist. I do accounting for the messes, meaning I buy and sell a hell of a lot of beer. Canadian soldiers are hearty drinkers.

 

[SwAMi75]

I'm an army reservist. I do accounting for the messes, meaning I buy and sell a hell of a lot of beer. Canadian soldiers are hearty drinkers.

So do us yanks. They don't provide beer with our meals, though. It all comes out of our pockets.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

In Canada we have a hot water tap and a Molson Canadian tap. Unfortunately Molson Canadian is a megaswill lager so it's basically cold water.

Hey I used to be a reservist years ago when I was 17. 748 Comm, Nanaimo.

 

[Walker]

late to the game here, but I'm waiting for something to finish running on the compute farm @ work and have a few minutes.

I'm a computer hardware engineer. (BS in Electrical/Computer Engineering). This is a job that kind of just 'fit' me.... I have had a computer at the ends of my fingers since I was 8 years old (I'm 31 now). I had to beg for two straight years to get my parents to buy that thing, too! Of course, they now consider it one of the best investments they ever made in terms of preparing their children for the future.

I'm by far the 'black sheep' of my family. Not because I do things that they do not approve of, but because I am educated and have moved away from the small town of 900ish people where I was born. Most everybody else in my family (grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings, neices/nephews) lives within 30 miles of each other in rural Ohio.

I currently work for http://www.nvidia.com, designing computer graphics hardware. I recently finished my work on Sony's PlayStation 3 game console, but (ironically) I don't play video games very much... maybe a few hours a YEAR.

I view my job as a means to an end. The work itself is fairly easy for me, but the schedules that I have to adhere to make for some FANTASTIC loads of stress.

I like my job... I don't LOVE it, but I like it, and it certainly pays the bills. I find my joy in my family and my hobbies, and if I can stick to my plan, I hope to retire a few years early and just go fishing for a decade or so.

-walker

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

Write f*&^#$ing software. After 30+ years, I am really f*#^$ing tired of writing software.

Sorry...I know I shouldn't shoot the messenger, and on top of that I should count my blessings.

Still tho...I really, really hate software.

You and me both, brother! Started out enjoying it, did it too long, now I hate it. But I have resolved to do something else this year, hopefully within my company, but if not that's fine, too. It is nice to lead a comfortable life with time for hobbies.

 

[user 574]

Write f*&^#$ing software. After 30+ years, I am really f*#^$ing tired of writing software.

Sorry...I know I shouldn't shoot the messenger, and on top of that I should count my blessings.

Still tho...I really, really hate software.

Hey El P. I'm in the market for some highly skilled programmer analysts with a disgruntled attitude who brew beer as a hobby. 1/2 my work force is disgruntled so you'd fit in great! Virtual office w/ VOIP works fine.

I got 20 years in the IT industry and I can feel for ya. The days of new technology interesting the heck out of me; keeping me up all night "playing" has past me by as well. That's why I like this hobby so much. LOW TECH! I've been thinking "What would I want to do" if I could just walk away from this industry. Hmmm... I need $ though too!

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

That's why I like this hobby so much. LOW TECH!

Me, too! My neighbor's always asking me, "Why do you make beer when you can buy it? Why do you roast coffee when you can buy it? Why do you swing a brush cutter when you could use a motorized whacker?" And I say, "Because I sit in front of a go##*!n computer all day long and I know these processes have worked for centuries and won't break! Now shut up!"

 

[Walker]

Me, too! My neighbor's always asking me, "Why do you make beer when you can buy it? Why do you roast coffee when you can buy it? Why do you swing a brush cutter when you could use a motorized whacker?" And I say, "Because I sit in front of a go##*!n computer all day long and I know these processes have worked for centuries and won't break! Now shut up!"

You should inform your neighbor that it is possible to buy pre-buttered MICROWAVEABLE toast in the grocery store (that's no joke.) Ask him why he bothers to make toast himself.

-walker

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

The funny thing is that he went to one of those "free daytrading seminars" and now thinks working at all is stupid. He's planning to quit work and just daytrade having learned in the last several months what selling short and options are.

 

[Kaiser]

What I do for a living?

right now, I switch between verifying/debugging a logic design and reading/answering on HBT all day . Good thing that the compile and run times are in the order of 5min.

I guess most of us feel the same about our high-tech jobs. It was exciting when we started and now it's mostly boring. But they pay good money to feed our families and fuel or hobbies.

I don't hate my job. Compared to most other jobs its actually a decent job (designing processors for cell phones). It's fairly interesting from time to time and my work hours are flexible. But, its only a job and I don't take it home.

I will see what the future brings. But once you have family, things are different. You cannot take as many chances anymore .

Kai

 

[Walker]

I don't hate my job (designing processors for cell phones).

Sounds like me, you, and BeeGee could start our own company. You make cell phone processors, I make video chips (some of which go into cell phones) and BeeGee writes software for those cell phones.

-walker

 

[ajf]

I brew for a living.

I work as a software engineer to get the money for brewing, but software engineers don't have a life. Ask E.P. or BeeGee.

-a.

 

[Kaiser]

I make video chips (some of which go into cell phones) and BeeGee writes software for those cell phones.

Do you work for Nvidia ????

I interviewed there before I came here.

Kai