What do we do for jobs?

[NightFire]

medically retired from the army

E-6, Avionics engineer for 4 years, MLRS for 3 years. Line of duty injuries put me on the 100% disabled list.

[Code]

Hello community, nice to meet you^^

I've been playing WoW a little over two years now, multiboxing for a few days. I can't seem to stop configuring my GUIs... Single pixel alignment incorrect == fail... Hopefully leveling on a PVP server won't take too long d(..)b

I work as a Senior Test Automation Engineer for a major insurance company. Must...resist...urge to automate. No worries, I'm following all the rules and am equipped with teh epic ethics.

[synkt]

Origionally a body piercer / tattoo artist but lost interest when it became too "pop culture".

Degree in internal combustion engine systems design. (fancy way to say I desing and draw pictures of prototype engines)

Certified Marine mechanic and currently working towards Aircraft maintenance certification while working for a small airline.

[Hoho]

Software developer. Used to write web applications, this got boring really fast. Now I write sonar software and things are much more interesting, especially considering that our small company should have one of the best, if not the best sonar technology in the world

[Havelcek]

I'm a management consultant in the financial services space, specifically wealth management, regulatory and retail banking business areas. I generally manage teams who are are brought into to save projects that are in crisis, both IT and business. I'm currently looking for opportunities to work in more of a private equity turn-around type model. After 5 years with my current firm I need a change of scenery.

I'm stupendously lucky in life and love. My wife of two years is a successful executive in the insurance space and we live in northern New Jersey surrounded by friends and family. I only get to WoW a few hours a week these days so I multi-box in order to get the best "bang for the buck" in terms of time spent. I've really enjoyed this community so far and the replies in this thread illustrate the maturity that can be found on this site.

[Djarid]

What a fascinating thread here is my contribution

Wannabe developer... I spend about 60% of my time scripting as it is Perl, Javascript, powershell, c# and vbscript [gag, lame language] but the systems side at my level just pays too well to start at the bottom again

@Ellay and Eteocles

2 year Associates degree in Computer Engineering... considering going back for at least a 4 year though - companies care too much about a piece of paper!

I have to agree with Eteocles here... I have no educational qualifications and am a senior engineer in the Global Active Directory team for Nestlé. To be Fair, I have been lucky in contracts and worked my way here over 10 years although would have happened quicker without a set back in UK IT in 2000.

@TMNT

Depends on the company, I have done the Architect role and it only paid about 40K GBP (hmm I suppose that is $80k)
My current role pays 150% of that and is lower in the hierarchy: I am in operations not design atm but fancied on working on the largest single Windows 2000 domain (at that time... we have since consolidated to a mere 780 Domain COntrollers ) NOTE: Don't ask me why it is a single domain [shakes head] I am operations


Like quite a few guys on this list, I used to be in the Military, British Army that is Sounds like a similar role to Mosg2, I had to multibox there too In fact I worked with our US and Canadian counterparts quite a few times... much better tech than us but not quite as flexible (you have to be flexible on the British Army budget!! )
@Kfunc: Russian, Serbo-Croat and Spanish

@Khayos
No sniper rifles for me but I did have the opportunity to play with a Barret Light 50 in the Balkans

@Wilbur
I just surprised that the percentage of "Technologists" isn't higher... what I do find incredible is that the rather small MI community has such a high representation. BTW for all those ex-colleagues when were you in the job? 87-97 for me.

[Shiena]

What do you do for a living?
Let's see. I started years ago with a engineering, then I switched over to business economics / software engineering, which I finished with a degree in a combined private university course. I have been very active as part of the Apache Software Foundation, and now run a few related Open Source projects of my own and sell support services for a living. Mostly work with C/C++, C#, and Python. Software engineering always has been fascinating me, I wrote my first application and sold it when I was 12 back when the Commodore 64 just got released.

What do you play?
If I do not multibox, I do play a blood elf paladin with protection spec doing quests and heroic runs. If it's multiboxin, it's a team of five shamans I just started playing. Once I mastered the inner secrets of multiboxing, I will probably start a group setup with five different classes.

[Skuggomann]

Origionally a body piercer / tattoo artist but lost interest when it became too "pop culture".

Degree in internal combustion engine systems design. (fancy way to say I desing and draw pictures of prototype engines)

Certified Marine mechanic and currently working towards Aircraft maintenance certification while working for a small airline.

Dam, thats deverse XD

so you can diesign a engien, piers and tatoo it and then instal it in a plain :P

[Evilphtbstrd]

well thought i would add to this lol

i am a manager for a security company and on weekends i also work as a doorman/bouncer for the same company

[Eteocles]

I doubt many of you will get the joke or reference, but...

Onoes Pht, you work for Valve don't you?! Programmer by week, bouncer by weekend for the RAVE BREAK!S Valve holds. :p

Also, ding, 200th post in this thread; WTB sticky.