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What do you do for work? (serious)

Zeze

Zeze

Lifer
also list what you do day to day...

IT consultant / project or program manager

- manage budget / scope / timeline
- bring product owners / tech leads of scrum teams to my call and touch up on above + dependencies
- join / facilitate design sessions, sprint demos, provide some steering
- be everyone's beeyotch, esp sponsors - sr leadership
- get paid well at least.
 
"area resource coordinator"

i make the documents that our field people require to do their job.
i send emails.
i update spreadsheets
i answer the phone.
i neff.

i keep my resume updated.

  • Work as part of a team dispatching personnel and equipment across the continental United States
  • Oversee service delivery from customer request to job completion
  • Coordinate equipment and personnel to maximize resource utilization with limited resources
  • Resolve conflicts and advise personnel to exceed customers' expectations
 
Regional Sales Manager

Have a team of a few guys in other parts of the US/Canada that do sales direct to customer
Industrial equipment, primarily Oil & Gas
Aftermarket sales, so primarily parts and service

I have a few direct customers also
Most of my time spent calling, looking at our numbers, working on strategy, etc.
 
I actually hate this question now. If I tell people I don't have a job, then it feels like I'm telling them I'm a loser. If I tell them I'm retired, then people start asking me all kinds of follow up questions wanting to know how I retired so young and my life story.

I haven't told my relatives and friends I'm retired. They think I'm struggling financially because I'm not working and asked me what I'm going to do for a job now. I told them I'm living on my small savings while I look for work and figure out what I want to do with my life.
 
Robotics and controls engineer. I deal with the guidance, nav and control stack for a wide variety of robotic systems for a wide variety of missions. I can build and be involved in hardware if I want, or not and just deal with software and simulation as I’ve chosen to do since March for obvious reasons.

I’m pretty good at keeping my mind and body active outside of work but think I’d get pretty damn bored without cool things to play with and teams to work with.
 
I think back when I first joined this board and this question came up I was a finance director. Years later, CFO of the company I work for.
 
ponyo said:
I actually hate this question now. If I tell people I don't have a job, then it feels like I'm telling them I'm a loser. If I tell them I'm retired, then people start asking me all kinds of follow up questions wanting to know how I retired so young and my life story.

I haven't told my relatives and friends I'm retired. They think I'm struggling financially because I'm not working and asked me what I'm going to do for a job now. I told them I'm living on my small savings while I look for work and figure out what I want to do with my life.
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F'em and good for you!

I'm a Land Use Planner and Coordinator for Development Services. I work with developers and citizens and tell them what they can and can't do with property as a Planner. I also work on long range planning documents like community and general plans. I also run our code enforcement division.

As a Coordinator I work with all of our development agencies and make sure the development process doesn't hit any snags from beginning to end. I try to ensure that as a team of agencies, we're all providing great customer service. It's a fun job and I'm not beholden to being stuck at my desk. I actually get to go out into the communities and see a final product being built from the ground up.
 
ponyo said:
I actually hate this question now. If I tell people I don't have a job, then it feels like I'm telling them I'm a loser. If I tell them I'm retired, then people start asking me all kinds of follow up questions wanting to know how I retired so young and my life story.

I haven't told my relatives and friends I'm retired. They think I'm struggling financially because I'm not working and asked me what I'm going to do for a job now. I told them I'm living on my small savings while I look for work and figure out what I want to do with my life.
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I perform my tasks as an operative. Sorry I vannot say more.
 
Software Engineer.

I'd consider myself a full stack developer but I have a knack for making UI's look and perform very nice and people fight over my time for GUI development. I've been doing web app development for the past 8 years professionally and don't see myself leaving that space as I love it. I've done a lot of iOS development on the side as well but haven't done that in over a year now.

I get paid very well and have probably the best benefits that are out there. People look at me dumbfounded when I tell them my benefits. I also have a great work life balance and have been working remotely since July.
 
purbeast0 said:
Software Engineer.

I'd consider myself a full stack developer but I have a knack for making UI's look and perform very nice and people fight over my time for GUI development. I've been doing web app development for the past 8 years professionally and don't see myself leaving that space as I love it. I've done a lot of iOS development on the side as well but haven't done that in over a year now.

I get paid very well and have probably the best benefits that are out there. People look at me dumbfounded when I tell them my benefits. I also have a great work life balance and have been working remotely since July.
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i hate UIs so freaking much nowadays

i want to get back to %100 server-side, one of these days

the best few years of my career were when i didn't have to touch HTML, JS or CSS
 
brianmanahan said:
i hate UIs so freaking much nowadays

i want to get back to %100 server-side, one of these days

the best few years of my career were when i didn't have to touch HTML, JS or CSS
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I like server side stuff too. I just like things looking pretty and am good at making it so. Having UX people helps so much though. I love having a good UX person give me awesome mockups and then turning it into functional products.
 
Work around Sales Tax / VAT Tax Software.

Started career in Big 4 accounting firms doing projects for clients to install, integrate, and configure the software.
Now I just sell the software as part of a sales team - but I'm just the nerd in the room. The sales guys do the quarterback talking and such.

Basically, was a picture perfect match for my MIS degree. I convert technical talk to business talk when I talk with tax folks - and I convert business talk to technical talk with the IT folks.

Most of my work is prepping for demos, doing demos, staying on top of the latest industry changes and our software changes.... helping to answer RFPs, etc..etc...
 
ponyo said:
I actually hate this question now. If I tell people I don't have a job, then it feels like I'm telling them I'm a loser. If I tell them I'm retired, then people start asking me all kinds of follow up questions wanting to know how I retired so young and my life story.

I haven't told my relatives and friends I'm retired. They think I'm struggling financially because I'm not working and asked me what I'm going to do for a job now. I told them I'm living on my small savings while I look for work and figure out what I want to do with my life.
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Fuck that. I'm retired...and have ZERO problem telling people that. (Look at my avatar)
 
ponyo said:
I actually hate this question now. If I tell people I don't have a job, then it feels like I'm telling them I'm a loser. If I tell them I'm retired, then people start asking me all kinds of follow up questions wanting to know how I retired so young and my life story.

I haven't told my relatives and friends I'm retired. They think I'm struggling financially because I'm not working and asked me what I'm going to do for a job now. I told them I'm living on my small savings while I look for work and figure out what I want to do with my life.
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Just tell them you're self employed now and include a grain of truth or something. "I'm now self employed managing finances for a small number of people" "I made the transition to working on my cooking skills to support us" "I'm now a Purchase Facilitator for Hermes"

BoomerD said:
Fuck that. I'm retired...and have ZERO problem telling people that. (Look at my avatar)
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Yeah but you're like ancient. If you're below a socially excepted age people make a lot of additional assumptions.
 
I lead a team that helps organizations, usually Higher Ed, do IT Things. It's a broad range of topics which, while it comes with challenges, I like due to the variety. Everything from vendor sourcing and management integrations for tens of thousands of workstations and servers down to projects affecting a small number of researchers. We're usually involved in the actual technical work which I like. Recently though its been more about trying to get people to accomplish their tasks. Higher Ed is adding technology solutions to fix remote instruction\collaboration\research complications despite smaller IT staff and budgets. The stress, pressure and risk for all involved is much higher and I'm worried it will affect education and research for many years after the pandemic is over
 
purbeast0 said:
I like server side stuff too. I just like things looking pretty and am good at making it so. Having UX people helps so much though. I love having a good UX person give me awesome mockups and then turning it into functional products.
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i miss having UX people who designed actual HTML/CSS for the mockups.

now i just get wireframes and gotta do all that design-to-HTML work. and they want it to be all user friendly.

i don't give a crap about users and their experiences.
 
Exterous said:
Just tell them you're self employed now and include a grain of truth or something. "I'm now self employed managing finances for a small number of people" "I made the transition to working on my cooking skills to support us" "I'm now a Purchase Facilitator for Hermes"



Yeah but you're like ancient. If you're below a socially excepted age people make a lot of additional assumptions.
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I've been "retired" since just before my 50th b-day...
 
I'm a Managing Consultant at a large national IT consultancy. I interface with clients at all levels (all the way up to the C-level), architect designs, and supervise consultants here and in our facility in India. It pays well and has great benefits but is stressful.
 
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