Topic: What's your job? How'd you get there?
There was probably a similar thread awhile back, but I'm sure in this day and age you're working somewhere else by now.
What's your job? What do you do? How did you get that position?
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I'll go first... I guess I really work in sales. I don't want to do sales, but being a consultant means that sales is 99% of your job. That remaining 1% of my job involves talking with executives about, essentially, what they can do to grow their companies. It's marketing, but it's marketing many times removed from what most people think of as marketing. I became a consultant when I started doing graphic and web design for small companies during the dot-com boom. I never stopped, sadly.
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I'm one of 5 members of the identity management team in the Columbia University IT department. Its my team's responsibility to develop and maintain the systems used to track things such as registration, physical security access privileges, basically anything connected with your university identity for staff, faculty, students, and administrators. Its cool to be able to tell people that I'm one of about 10 people who have root access to all of a major Ivy League university's systems, but the work itself can be mindnumbing, especially given that some of the legacy systems handled data so poorly, it often has to be manually cleaned, which is a bitch. And everyone loves to complain to us about every little problem.
I found this position after graduating from columbia with a master's in computer science from the engineering school. I went around NYC interviewing for jobs for about 2 months, which was endlessly frustrating and disappointing. My girlfriend suggested I see if maybe Columbia itself had any job openings, and they did. I went to meet the guys there and they were honestly the coolest group of potential coworkers that I had found so far. The interview was also much more fair, probably because they had some reason to trust me already, since I just graduated from their own engineering school. Finding an entry level job for the first time out of school sucks though. I'm hoping that the next time around it'll be easier.
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I'm working for the Shipping company "DS Norden", recruited to and started education to become a Marine Officer of the Trade Fleet. Eventually I'll be able to fix any- and everything onboard ships. As well as navigating and setting courses.
I applied for the Marine Officer contract at various companies, the one I mentioned seemed to fit my personality the best.
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I'm in the US Air Force. My job title is Engineering Craftsman, but what I basically do is land surveying, mostly for common types of features such as roads, buildings, and utilities to be used in our maps. We also survey for construction at times, but it's a rare occasion. Day to day, we work with geographic information systems. In the off chance that somebody actually wants to know what that is, wikipedia is always willing.
Well, getting to this job wasn't quite the burden that it is for most of you. I basically just did research on what jobs the air force offered, decided which ones sounded acceptable to me, and went to a recruiter and told him what I was willing to do. He delivered with one of my choices, and a few months later, I was on my way to bootcamp followed by about 4 months of job specific training. It wasn't much, they teach you enough that you'll be able to understand and absorb your on the job training once you get to your first duty station.
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I am a Marine. I kill people. I killed my parents so they recruited me.
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Another day at the office.
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Give him shaggier hair that isnt parted in the middle like a fgt and less hideous glasses, and youve got me at work.
Except replace all those words with synonyms for lazy, disgruntled and apathetic. Also my name isn't Dwight.
Ok so we don't have very much in common but that picture makes me laugh so deal with it.
I work in IT and get treated like the backend of everyones shoe all day, every day. I worked my way up to IT director from IT slave over the course of 2 years. I hate my job, but hopefully if all goes as planned I'll be moving back to Dallas to work for Sungard in January.
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Originally posted by: Bionic
I'm in the US Air Force. My job title is Engineering Craftsman, but what I basically do is land surveying, mostly for common types of features such as roads, buildings, and utilities to be used in our maps. We also survey for construction at times, but it's a rare occasion. Day to day, we work with geographic information systems. In the off chance that somebody actually wants to know what that is, wikipedia is always willing.
Thats cool, I also work int he field of GIS, I put all sorts of data together to come up with maps and databases that help the city manage its assets better.
GIS is cutting edge technology.
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Cool cool. What kind of education do you have? How'd you end up in the position you're in now?
I'm looking to keep working in GIS when I seperate from the service, either as an USAF contractor or for a city
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I did a law and security program in college, which was horribly boring. I did a year GIS program at another college, worked in the mean-time at the city doing map related tasks before I went to school for GIS, so after the one year I got this job at the city... it's nothing really totally amazing, I basically work with Autocad and ESRI... I am really fascinated with GIS... Google Earth is a prime example of how far this technology is going, and has anyone seen the streetview option they have put into googlemaps? If not check it out, thats cutting edge.
Common sense is what tells you the world is flat.
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Over the summer I was a digital media (web design) consultant with Mercedes-Benz corporate. I got the job through contacts through a friend, and my old high school's internship program. It paid pretty well for an absurdly easy job. This summer I'll be doing medical research at Johns Hopkins, which probably won't pay as well, but will look better for med school applications. I'll be getting this job through personal contacts as well.
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I work the hardware side of a, currently, two-man IT team for a CAT machine distributor. I make sure field technicians can hook their laptops up to the on-board computers and download the data they need. If someone's laptop takes a shit, I determine why and the quickest (read: cheapest) method to fix it. If the office people need a new keyboard because the one they have clicks too loudly, I get to tell them that I don't have any more (because I conveniently forget about the dozens stacked in the closet). Their CRT is going bad and they NEED a new one ASAP (preferably one of those 21" widescreen jobs with the super-high contrast and 2ms response time)? Well, I show up with this really old shitty 15" CRT to replace the 19-incher they have and the one they have magically starts behaving normally. Basically, my day consists of coming in late, downloading music via an Aircard, playing flash games off my thumb drives, taking naps and long lunches, and then leaving early. Oh, and the IT manager knows all about this and could care less so long as the very rare time I need to do something, it gets done fast.
