Which of These Computer Jobs Would You Want the Most?

[TalonStrike]

Which of These Computer Jobs Would You Want the Most?

 

[FoBoT]

DBA all day

 

[gevorg]

Other: Compensation Analyst IV

 

[alfa147x]

from my little experience (a bit over 2 years)

DBA all the way

 

[Rubycon]

I hate computers so none of the above but if I had to pick a computer job it would probably be the person in the Asus RMA department that has the big sledgehammer that fixes the boards before returning them to customers! :biggrin:

 

[gophins72]

very nice, rubycon
:thumbsup:

 

[nageov3t]

DBA seems like the happy medium between high pay and low stress.

 

[0roo0roo]

I hate computers so none of the above but if I had to pick a computer job it would probably be the person in the Asus RMA department that has the big sledgehammer that fixes the boards before returning them to customers! :biggrin:

fiberglass is strong..lol

 

[clamum]

Video game programmer followed by software engineer. I are coder.

 

[manlymatt83]

DBA seems like the happy medium between high pay and low stress

ha

 

[gophins72]

is video game programming still the high stress job it's been in the past?

 

[Broheim]

software engineer, programming is easy and generally very stress-free.

the planning/design phase is boring though.

 

[Veliko]

Steve lol

 

[Oyeve]

DBA is the stablest job on the list. So, I chose DBA.

 

[Rage187]

DBA = Babysitter

Babysitting = easy as long as you check on the kid every once in awhile.

 

[her209]

Other:

Network Engineer

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Yeah, the DBAs I know don't seem stressed at all. One guy is my friend and he surfs the web most of the time and our current DBA has to be given other work to keep her busy.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

If given the choices above, I'd definitely choose other. Video game programmer sounds fun on the surface, but from all accounts, it isn't and is almost like slave labor at companies like EA. The guys who have the most fun, I'd imagine, are the guys who design the game mechanics, rules, etc. and then pass it off to the programmers to implement.

The rest are really "meh" IMO. You can make a good living at each one but from my experience working in infrastructure for 13 years and then development for the last 3, it is no contest -- I much prefer infrastructure jobs.

 

[mammador]

Network admin or systems admin, you missed those out... lol..

Or better still, VP of an IT Dept. lol..

 

[JD50]

Software Engineer. I love scripting/programming and do a ton of scripting as a Systems Administrator. I'll probably move over to a developer type role at some point.

 

[nageov3t]

DBA seems like the happy medium between high pay and low stress

ha

idk, I work with the DBA's in my company a lot and they almost never seem particularly stressed out (baring the very rare legitimate shitstorm where absolutely everything goes wrong, but that happens in nearly every job at some point)

 

[GeekDrew]

I know many DBAs, and I wouldn't say that any of them have low-stress jobs. Perhaps it's the quality of the DBA that causes that?

Of the choices given, DBA. It's nothing at all like development/programming, which are all of the other choices. (That makes me wonder whether the job you're asking about is database development... those employees are also frequently called DBAs, but they're a different breed of DBA than most out in the wild.)

Beyond the list, I can't decide what I want to specialize in. Right now my effective duties are comparable to sysadmin (generalist). I'm thinking that I should 1) narrow that down to DBA, 2) start studying and become an expert in ADDS/Identity, or 3) get some training in telecom and become a telecom tech (I've gotten a tremendous amount of Avaya VOIP experience in the last year, seems awesome to me).

 

[lsv]

DBA as long as you aren't the one starting a new project and having to learn all the nonsense between new client software and the DB or the switch from SQL to something stupid.

 

[nanette1985]

Custom computer case artist. I know some folks who do that, cool interesting people and they seem to have a lot of fun at work.

 

[Stuxnet]

software engineer, programming is easy and generally very stress-free.

the planning/design phase is boring though.

LMAO @ thinking software engineer = coding