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[Unregistered 018]

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Edited by Zinrgy, 26 September 2008 - 07:36 PM.

[chaosdesign]

Well i am a computer technician, at the age of 22

i have always wanted to do what i am doing now (except for about 2 years when i wanted to be an astronaut)

I like where i work, in fact i am at work now.

The only thing that i hate about my current job is the fact that i leave at the end of the month to move up north to be with my partner.

How i got the job was, i did a few weeks of work experience back in 2003

for the next while after i left school i worked in the vineyards for two years, i was a supervisor where i worked, then because of a back injury i had to stop work for four months

in 2006 i walked in again and said do you guys have a job open, i had a chat with the boss, and i got the job. I am currently running the IT dept. by my self at the moment because my work mate has gone to japan for a 5 week holiday and he only left last week.

So I like my job.

Edited by chaosdesign, 03 October 2007 - 03:26 AM.

[Unregistered 018]

thank you VERY much for your reply. i hope more people reply. i just find it fascinating to hear about other people's lives.

[chaosdesign]

Zinrgy, on Oct 3 2007, 04:27 PM, said:

thank you VERY much for your reply. i hope more people reply. i just find it fascinating to hear about other people's lives.

its funny you should say that, cos i like to here peoples life stories to, i appreciate where they come from and can relate to them easier once i know what they have done and how they got here

[Soviet]

Hi.. I'm 18years old student and for living I'm just not doing some extra

I'm studying at school some miles from my flat and I just need money for traveling here. But I have good school and they just pay you for going to school and they pay more if you are going to works as helping worker. But for living Im doing only what my mum say to me because she is paying for living, then I must do everything what she say. I love my living but now I have girl and live is too different as it was when I haven't got her.

[caz2406]

I do accounting from home for a USA small business (a friend of the owner)...just part time...tho he is selling up soon, so am just getting into mlm again, did this years ago and enjoyed the whole concept....wasnt hugely lucrative but gave me a decent wage

Caz

[linekill]

I'm working on a tech support center for a networking company. That's actually all I do to earn money, as of this moment. An interesting job where you get to interact with people from different parts of the world. Most of which, are in there worst shape. (Shouting and cursing on a non-working product but really is working and was just messed up. Sometimes, though, it really is not working.) It's fun. And I get to learn a lot about computers.
By the way, I'm a chemistry major and graduated about a year and half ago. Got sick of chemicals so I plunged myself into computers to learn something new. In the next months, maybe, I'll start pursuing chemistry back.
Life is work. So, it's best to work on something you enjoy.

[sitesmakers]

well my name is Andrei. Im Rumanian , ived imigrated in spain like 3 years ago , ived sttudied here for 2 years and now i work at a company thats related with web design. i do sites .

I like alot my job , ived teached this alone starting with photoshop and up up up .


Now i run couple of sites and its more a hobby for me . im 19 years and get older

[itek4u]

Zinrgy, on Oct 2 2007, 09:58 PM, said:

i am interested to know what people do for a living and how they got to the position they are in? also if they have any regrets or ...

I am an onsite tech specialist. I love what I do and am very good at it, at least that is what everybody tells me. One catch about all of this though is I am self-employed which is very stressful. Where I live at there is no other choice. You are either self-employed or not employed. Doing what I do has a tremendous catch 22. Either you are doing well or not at all it seems. Right now I am going through a very hard time do to recent life circumstances. To do what I do I feel it is better to be working for a company where you know what kind of paycheck you are going to receive is. But the benefits are you do not have someone looking over your shoulder and the income can be unlimited if things play right.

[terawisd]

Age: 24 years
where: Malaysia
description: currently i validate firmware for the server board controller after the company develop it. This is 1-year contract. I start join the company directly after I graduated from my university. It has been 9 months, only left 3 months before I leave my team and find other job.hehehe
I love this job because it related with the computer 'things'. I am looking forward to work in other area that related to computer also. hehehhe

[zamaliphe]

will i live in egypt

and i used to work for computer compny

but now i work free

in computer softwear mantimance

and i'm traing to make some extara cash on the internet

by having my one web site

[ivanskillers]

Zinrgy, on Oct 2 2007, 07:58 PM, said:

i am interested to know what people do for a living and how they got to the position they are in? also if they have any regrets or if they are happy or not doing what they do? include age possibly to give respect to the value of time.

me? you might ask...or not..im going to tell anyone who is reading this anyways: i am only 21 and i am about to gradute college as a Real estate major from san diego state university. i really have no intentions of using my real estate background becasue i want to leave the country and surf. i will also finish my paramedic training in May. i like to help people so thats why i persued my EMS career but even that isnt my passion. why have a job if you arent happy? why is money always the answer? or seems to be anyways. i own a surf company and a graphic design company. those make me happy but they dont pay the bills. i have 18,000$ to pay off then im leaving to kenya, africa. from there i'm going to capetown south africa, then france, then back to san diego. then im going to fiji, australia, new zealand. im afraid i wont come back ever again. this is life for me. the ocean draws me to places around the world. i would rather be poor than wake up every day hating my partner, job, house, location etc. i could end up in ruins living in a shack in indonesia but its better than corporate america to me. money is only paper. granted i can do these things because of it but when is enough, enough? is hitting the stock market big and buying a 300,000$ car happiness? i met a guy when i worked as a valet in del mar. i pulled up his 276,000$ bentley convertable. he looked at me and said" you must surf? i remember when i had the time to surf". i asked him looking at the car,"was it worth it?" He was a smart man becasue he replied" not really, i worked my whole life and stopped surfing for the money, but i have some really nice toys!" then he drove off. he knew i wasnt talking about the car. i was talking about his life. if you hate what you do,then change it. dont die unhappy. be poor before you die with what society calls rich.

Hi My name is Ivan Garcia and I am 18.I am currently a Computer and Web Specialist.I have always liked computers and the internet and I decided that I must take my skills to the next level so I applied for this job and got it real easy.id say that I know alot more than someone with a BA in Web Programming!I plan to work for big companies in the future and help make the internet more powerful!

[Jasontian]

I'm a Student In college,I'm very admire AnthonyRobbins! I hope to be a person just like him!

[zamaliphe]

i work in computer mantinace

Edited by zamaliphe, 05 January 2008 - 02:13 AM.

[Bluebear]

Age: 15.
Where: Norway.

Since I am busy with school, I don't have time for a job. I am sure that if I really needed - and wanted, to get one, I could. But I get money from my dad every month, and from my mom. Well, I don't need to do anything for a living, my mom does all those things. But I need to clean and tidy my room, and the rest of our house. And I need to take care of my rabbit, but I guess that does not count for a real job, haha.

[karlosvalencia]

Lots of interesting replies. All technical ppl though. I would love to hear about those odd jobs like the guy who dig the wholes on the cheese or that fat guy porn star. Would be interesting to know how they got where they are

In my case I'm a telecom engineer working as a 3rd level support and trial guy. It's interesting most of the time as I get to travel around the world demostrating our product but it's also a lot of hard work. Recently I've evaluated if whether or not I'd like to move to a different position, like sales engineering or something totally out of the scope of technology, like opening a bed and breakfast or something like that. How I got here? Well, graduated in computer science, so I knew more about SQL and programming than about modems but I wanted to explore that side so I did my coop at mastercard on the telecom deparment and then later on moved to a company reselling telecom products. After that I moved to north america and found a job precisely with the vendor we used to resell on.

[dvalkass]

I am 15 and live in the UK currently I am studying 13 GCSE's and hope to go on to study A levels and something at Uni. What I do at Uni will obviously depend on all my grades but I am leaning towards something to do with design/graphics either architecture/landscaping or computer animation/video game design.

[KansukeKojima]

Freeload....

[Hirishiolo]

Hi!


I don't know if in your country exist my professional figure. I am a consulent of job, an expert about consulent for the industries. I make redundancies and recruitment of the workers of industries in my city and I create the payroll for the workers...do you have this professional figure in your country?I am curious!


Bye

[strange-garden]

Ever since I finished with school, I've been doing I.T, network engineering, tech support work for ISP's yada yada...But whenever I was at work I used to get yelled at for drawing on paint, or drawing on paper or whatever. One day a guy walked past and asked me where i got the image i did on paint from, and I replied "oh, i just drew it. I wanted it to look like a vector" and he was a webdesigner and told me I should be doing graphic design.

So i did...When I got illustrator I did a design for my mum's friend, and uploaded it to deviantart. a german design company messaged me and asked me if i wanted my design on iPod skins and laptop skins and stuff...How could I refuse. So I quit everything I did and concerntrated on what I was best at. Now I want to have my own website with my portfolio, so more companies can contact me and buy the rights to my designs.

[rs redemption]

I do alot of things for a living

I just landed a job today for general maintenance in a laser cutting plant where they cut metal pieces for airplanes. Mostly its just cleaning, painting, some basic machine maintenance. I also have sold cars, been a machine operator a few places, and within the next few months will be finishing up school for welding and metal fabrication, as well as earning my certification for 4" vertical mig welding. Eventually, I would like to go on to be a machine repairman, as I love working on machines and figuring out what is wrong with them.

The problem around where I live is that most major manufacturers are moving their plants overseas for cheaper labor, and so job opportunities are dwindling. Because of this I have to go through a staffing agency to find anything decent, and well they usually take a good chunk of my paycheck for the first 3 months.

[liwenjones]

I am the Communications Evangelist for the new online dance community called DanceJam.com

I found the job under Craigslist Gigs as a paid intern and I've finally worked my way up the ladder to where I am now. The cool thing about this job is that my boss is MC Hammer (who is stranger than you think) and I get to meet other famous singers and celebs when I work in the office.

I mostly work from home now since Palo Alto is so darn far away. I am in charge of the DanceJam beta, promotions, social networks and a couple maintenance issues.

[MadDog]

Interesting. A lot of computer related jobs, (which I guess is no surprise really). So I thought I'd throw something different into the mix...
I'm 38, and up until last year, I was an aborist for 15 years. I used to get paid to travel all over outback Queensland, Australia to climb trees around power lines and cut them down. Ive 4 wheel driven in so many places where the nearest homesteads were over 100 kilometres away, only going home on most weekends. Usually staying in small town pubs, or camping out. Basically I just loved the adrenaline factor, knowing that if you screwed up, at best youd start a bushfire, at worst, someone would die. So you didnt screw up. Theres no-one to help you out there. I was only cut by a chainsaw twice during my whole career, and luckily both were managable, although a bloke did hit me in my helmet once and destroyed it... Glad I was wearing it. But theres nothing like being 100 or more foot in the air, tied to your tree, just gazing out over hundreds of miles of land till it just hazes out. Bliss. My mate got bit by a snake once (taipan, google it ),and was all but dead by the time we got to the nearest hospital with antivenom, nearly 200 k's away. Correct first aid saved his life. In our spare time, we got to fish and get yabbies, (freshwater crayfish), in streams and billabongs that no-one had even layed eyes on for 50 years or more. Explored and climbed anything we could find, rock formations, waterfalls, mountains etc. Good Stuff. You start to get a nose for water when you work every day in 40-50 degree (Celcius) heat, haha. Good Times.
It was the best life ever, but unfortunately, after one too many falls out of a tree, my body just couldn't take it any more, so I was left contemplating, "what do I do now?".
The answer came to me in the weirdest way, another administrator on a website I admin at built boats. So lo and behold, I became a self-employed marine carpeter. Putting carpet in pleasure craft and fishing boats. Not my idea of a dream job, and I miss the adrenaline rushes of climbing and stuff, but I make more now in a week than I did in 3 weeks of climbing. So its worth it for my families sake. I still have to travel week on, week off, about 5 hours to Sydney, and then fly 1000k's to Gold Coast to work, but thats OK.The drives worse than the flights.
Anyhow, hope someone finds my little tale interesting. So much happened in the last 15 years, I only gave a brief over-view.
So thats my life. Later guys.

PS liwenjones, that sounds like a real interesting job mate. TBH I thought MC Hammer was dead!?!? lol. Shows how out of touch with "the scene" I am I guess. haha.

[Qittie deKay]

Haha...wow. I feel so...inadequate. 0_0;

20...from Arkansas. Currently I'm unemployed, but I've worked many odd jobs. My most current was Gamestop and before that I was a telemarketer. I don't actually HAVE to work right now as I get to go to college for free and my mom is still kind enough to feed me and give me a place to stay. I really only work when I want/need something and don't want to ask my mom for it; I'm content-ish to be broke right now. I'm actually looking for a job right now to help finance a study abroad trip to New Zealand; it'll be the first part of my final year as an undergrad in college. After that I'm off to SUNY Brockport to get my master's in English. I hope to publish a novel somewhere in the next year and a half, maybe get a book deal. All I've ever wanted to do with my life is write. So I guess I have no regrets with what little I've done. *shrugs*

Post Note: MadDog...love your siggy.

[FunkySurd]

Im a programmer at the moment, working in Thailand..
Do web designs and also alot of php coding..
not really what i want to do though, eventually i want to be a system analyst...
hopefully