What was your first job title/What did you do?

[oiprocs]

Systems analyst? Programmer? Tech guy?

 

[Rogodin2]

I was a Custom Combine Supervisior as a teenager (18). I was responsible for the maintainence, site performance, and 5000 acres of efficient production of wheat, corn, and beans of 6 John Deere 8820 combines for 5 months per year.

I also learned how to 'still' mint, read Wittgenstein, and chop windrows of mint.

College was my 'down time'.

I thought of changing my major to CS, I wish I had but I'm an idealist and not the hardcore pragmatist. At the time I was using philosophy to bang thousands of beautiful women using the categorical imperative as the ultimate method. Unfortunately I married a woman that was mentally ill (though very beautiful and intelligent).

You need to take a long leap and work the land lad.

Rogo

 

[JujuFish]

Paper boy. I delivered newspapers.

 

[Reel]

Originally posted by: JujuFish
Paper boy. I delivered newspapers.

In the areas I have lived in of Florida, paper delivery always seems to be done from cars, usually really crappy cars or child molester vans. They load the inside up then drive around and toss them out the window at a house.

I was a busboy in a local restaurant. It was close enough that I could walk except when it rained. Then my mom would drive me in her minivan. I lasted about 3 months but made good money. I just hated the owning family of that place.

 

[her209]

That "Nick Burns" Guy

 

[BabaBooey]

My first job was when I left home at 14 and worked at the stockyards scraping maggots off off hides....and yes that was the worst job I have ever had.


Now I am a pimp....life is good...

 

[Juno]

construction worker. i demolished, renovated and built houses, stores and other places.

 

[chusteczka]

While in school, I interned at a couple different places that included Argonne National Laboratory and an engineering firm developing thermal imaging cameras.

After graduation with a CS degree, my first job title was "Software Testing Documentation Specialist". There is a large need for people willing to work in the Quality Assurance segment of software development.

Now, my job title is the generic, "Technical Consultant", and I migrate IBM mainframe data into Oracle for report generation purposes with an insurance adjusting firm.

 

[Red Squirrel]

As student, I was a network analyst, aka level 3 tech. I graduated, now I'm working full time and I'm a PC support tech, Its kind of level 1 and 2 mixed together. I take help desk calls, but sometimes I'll also go out of the office to setup stuff, like printers, or troubleshoot stuff, etc. It's a downgrade from when I was student, but I'm making just as much as I'm getting full time wages vs student wages, so can't complain. It's also nice to see how the front end of things work, so when I end up working level 3 again, I know more how things work at the help desk.

It's not an easy lazy job like some people tend to think it is. You need to know tons of stuff. The actual technical side is not so bad, whats hard is knowing how each client is setup, and what they use, and how it all works, and where everything is stored/done, then theres a whole wack of different passwords for different systems, which you have to know how to get to in first place. I found the server job much easier to be honest. The technical side is more of a challenge, but theres less logistics (if thats the right word) stuff to worry about. Though at the end of the day, the job is not really stressful. Level 3 can have more stress and you may even end up working lot of overtime if a major server is out or something.

 

[FeuerFrei]

I presume you mean AFTER graduating.

I was a programmer analyst on a mainframe. First project was getting all the applications running in Endevor, for change management. Then I moved on to writing COBOL/DB2 programs from specs.

 

[clamum]

Web Designer. Responsible for putting sites together after another person did the graphics and such. Creation of and updating of ASP scripts, mainly relating to e-commerce sites. Standard updating and maintenance of existing clients' websites.

Now: Application Developer. Requirements gathering, implementation/development, maintenance of software (web applications and Windows applications) in a .NET environment.

 

[Apathetic]

I was a computer programmer and I think my title was the same. It's been a while.

Dave

 

[Koing]

CS graduate, first job was a System Test Engineer. I'd test, write test plans, do tests on various bits of kit. The London underground system with the oyster cards I've tested pretty exensively during 05 to 06. Worked on a Danish project which was cool.

Koing

 

[TwiceOver]

My first job title: Dishwasher.

Post Graduation: IT Manager. Basically a fancy way of saying "the guy that fixes everything that plugs into the wall" In fact, I think that would be a more appropriate title.

 

[Rip the Jacker]

First = Front end web developer (current)

 

[Red Squirrel]

Originally posted by: TwiceOver
My first job title: Dishwasher.

Post Graduation: IT Manager. Basically a fancy way of saying "the guy that fixes everything that plugs into the wall" In fact, I think that would be a more appropriate title.

Haha I know how that is. One of our customers is the local hospital. We've had calls involving troubleshooting MRI machines, freezers, centrifuges (test tube spiny thingy) etc.

At home the call volume is worse then at work, I get all the tedious jobs like scanning stuff, and silly on site support calls such as downloading pictures from a camera. I charge 50/hour now. Its super high, so that people stop calling me at home. I do tech support all day at work and get paid well for it, I have no reason to do it at home too.