What do we do for jobs?

[Myro]

I am currently working on my Bachelor of Computer Science and am part of a co-op program. Right now, I am working with the National Research Council of Canada Information Security Group as a java developer / researcher. Doing stuff with text mining / machine learning in the area of health care privacy. Definitely interesting work and I find I'm learning way more here than from any of my courses.

[Frosty]

I worked for an ISP for 9 years running it's web development department and it's wireless internet department.
I worked with the first wireless broadband products in our area starting back in 1999. I did everything from programming, radio planning, base equipment installation and working with the product engineers to help them trouble shoot software/hardware problems. Started to get into Mesh Networking and WiMAX before I left. Lots of neat stuff. Jobs in that field are hard to come by!
Now working as an IT consultant for one company, and a PHP developer for another.

Degree = NONE! But I did major in everything for at least one semester. :P

[Malt]

I am a high school teacher specializing in teaching English Language Acquisition to children recently immigrated from crisis in their home country. It's the most difficult and rewarding job I have ever had.

[moodswing]

I'm a SR Network Engineer for a Cisco Gold partner specializing in b2b VOIP.

[Naysayer]

[quote='Ken',index.php?page=Thread&postID=96205#pos t96205]

[quote='Doostin',index.php?page=Thread&postID=96192 #post96192][...] just remember we're in the tip industry, 15% is good enough, but more is always appreciated =P[/quote]
I never understood the American attitude towards tipping...

[/quote][size=10][font='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'](If you don't want to read profanity, don't bother reading the movie quote below. I tried to clean it up as best I could to avoid trouble. )


[/font][/size]Reservoir Dogs

Nice Guy Eddie: C'mon, throw in a buck!
Mr. Pink: Uh-uh, I don't tip.
Nice Guy Eddie: You don't tip?
Mr. Pink: Nah, I don't believe in it.
Nice Guy Eddie: You don't believe in tipping?
Mr. Blue: You know what these chicks make? They make s**t.
Mr. Pink: Don't give me that. She don't make enough money that she can quit.
Nice Guy Eddie: I don't even know a f*****g Jew who'd have the balls to say that. Let me get this straight - you don't ever tip?
Mr. Pink: I don't tip because society says I have to. All right, if someone deserves a tip, if they really put forth an effort, I'll give them something, a little something extra. But this tipping automatically, it's for the birds. As far as I'm concerned, they're just doing their job.
Mr. Blue: Hey, our girl was nice.
Mr. Pink: She was okay. She wasn't anything special.
Mr. Blue: What's special? Take you in the back and suck your d**k?
Nice Guy Eddie: I'd go over twelve percent for that.

Mr. Pink: Look, I ordered coffee. Now we've been here a long f*****g time and she's only filled my cup three times. When I order coffee, I want it filled six times.
Mr. Blonde: Six times. Well, what if she's too f*****g busy?
Mr. Pink: The words "too f*****g busy" shouldn't be in a waitress's vocabulary.
Nice Guy Eddie: Excuse me, Mr. Pink, but I think the last f*****g thing you need is another cup of coffee.

Mr. Pink: I'm very sorry the government taxes their tips, that's f****d up. That ain't my fault. It would seem to me that waitresses are one of the many groups the government f***s in the ass on a regular basis. Look, if you ask me to sign something that says the government shouldn't do that, I'll sign it. Put it to a vote, I'll vote for it, but what I won't do is play ball. And as for this non-college bullshit I got two words for that -learn to f*****g type. 'Cause if you're expecting me to help out with the rent you're in for a big f*****g surprise.

[Kayley]

I'm an internet Athlete.




(http://www.penny-arcade.com/)

srsface.

R&D, currently improving the camera systems in buses/trains etc. Boring (
Bank alarms on the other hand were fun :P

[TMNT]

I'm an internet Athlete.

best answer by far

[Caspian]

Really really exciting here.

Systems engineer (Unix admin) for a profitable US Airline.

Props out to the military folks, was US army from 93-97, spent time working with the Air Force in Korea in 94-95.

Play semi-pro baseball as my second hobby. Led my league in batting for the first time ever this season, woohoo.

Also part of a 3 generation WoW family. My dad started us all playing and both my kids play too. My oldest is starting to multibox our 3 solo 70's for dailies. She will be a freshman in HS this fall.

[Dorffo]

How would i go about getting a job in the game programming industry once ive finished college?

The only job ive ever had is a paper round

By beginning with fun hobby projects right now (if you're not doing so already) imo. Think of some game/multimedia application that is fun and challenging, start designing and then start coding
If you want some samples of projects, here's my project website: http://lifeisdigital.net/

The best way to get in is to be able to show what you can do. That's how I got in without a degree.

Quoted for Truth ^

as an aside - something important to realize (and that no one told me) is when it comes down to it - most aspects of game development are exactly the same or worse than other application development/programming, it's not nearly as different as one might hope.

[Stormweasel]

Coming home in a week after a year off travelling and heading straight for the welfare system while I job hunt/play Warcraft. I´ll be getting a job in facilities management as a career change from the hell of sales.

Incidentally, in the UK you can now apply for handouts online which are then be paid directly into your bank account, meaning you can get on the welfare system merely by alt-tabbing from WoW. The strides our government has taken in technology are truly astonishing.

Very nice to see the range of skills we multiboxers have in real life, interesting to know what others do and also a nice retort to the "All multiboxers are losers who live in their mother's basement" style quips.

To add some balance to all the people here with really cool impressive and interesting jobs/lives, I will in fact be living with my fiance in my future mother-in-laws basement until we both have jobs. It´s sad but at least it has a twist to it in the no-life stakes :P