Author Topic: What work do you do? (Read 20402 times)

ChaosControl · « **on:** 2006-05-23 07:34:56 »

Since I was wondering what everyone here does for a living I thought I'd make a topic about it.
It's kinda useless but for one, my job is fun.

Anyway, I'm a system-administrator for a company that makes roofs for giantic buildings.
The company is quite small so I only have about 10 computers and 2 servers to look out for.

It's quite easy and gets me some good money (7,50â‚¬ / hour).
I do this as a side-job though because I'm still in school.

What about you?

mirex · « **Reply #1 on:** 2006-05-23 12:47:48 »

I work as programmer. I already switched job 3 times but I still do programming stuff ... Win32 & MFC & C++, or Rhapsody & Linux & C++ ... Right now I'm in a company creating an simulation technology mainly for military department.

My wage is alot lower than yours chaoscontrol, because I live in easetern europe, which is still taken as region of cheap workers. No hate for that though.

Qhimm · « **Reply #2 on:** 2006-05-23 13:23:49 »

I too work as a programmer (bet no one guessed that!), but contrary to mirex this is my first and only "real" job after my Master of Science studies. My degree isn't done yet, but I plan to finish it while working. Honestly!

I work at Opera Software, developing the world's best web browser (brought to you by the world's most modest developers). You are using it, right? I can tell which ones of you are good-natured users by looking at the site logs, so the next time I pull them up I want to see a higher share than a few measly percent!

I'm not personally involved with the desktop browser though, I help with the porting and development for mobile platforms. So don't come to me with feature requests.

Regarding salary, I won't mention mine out of modesty (that, and I'm too lazy to convert from monthly to hourly figures, and into euros, and wondering about tax). It's a wee bit higher than the previous guys, but then again this is my full-time job these days.

spyrojyros_tail · « **Reply #3 on:** 2006-05-23 13:46:52 »

Heh im just finished my degree so I dont have any work related to my degree. But I work as an apprentice bookkeeper, we do accounts mainly for solicitors and we are pretty damn good at it too. Its a family buisness set up and run by my dad. So thats what i will be doing for the rest of my life possibly, but im really interested in the e-learning side of things so ill be doing some projects like that on the side. Im not gonna mention my wage tho!!

7.65â‚¬/hour is minimum wage in Ireland, you guys should be paid a shitload more for the work your doing (although i think Dublin is the third/second most expensive place to live in europe so the minimum wage could be justified...). I heard of a job in London (you had to have 2 years experience in Macromedia Director and maybe some flash) and it paid Â£45,000 a year, now Director isnt as hard as either of your jobs, but it pays truckloads of money.

I know its not all about the money..... but a big big part of it is!!

L. Spiro · « **Reply #4 on:** 2006-05-23 14:01:51 »

Unlike the others, I work as a programmer.

Originally born in America, I decided wheat is lame and left Kansas for good.
I went over an ocean and fell into Bangkok, where I began making video games.

My involvement was absolutely 100% necessary (!) for the successful completions of the following titles:
Ghost Recon 2 Online (Ubisoft).
Petz 5 (Ubisoft).
Heroes of Might and Magic, Heroes of Might and Magic 2, Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (Ubisoft, formerly 3DO).
187 Ride or Die (Ubisoft).
Flying Toaster: After Dark (Vivendi Universal).
Leisure Suit Larry [Unreleased, Unnamed] (Vivendi Universal).
Some others (Others).

Although my wage isnâ€™t particularly special, it levels out very well with the economics of Bangkok; considering my 8th-floor, air-conditioned, fully furnished, cable-enabled room costs $125 per month, I make way more than I need (unfortunately the American government is sucking it all up right now).
Benefits include a performance-based monthly bonus (my bonus last month was $350; the highest ever in the company), and all-expense-paid world travel (my job has sent me to Malaysia for a game conference, Paris, and Marseilles, with my room overlooking the Mediterranean, etc.)

My first job in America involved making software to make web pages.
It was quite boring, and I left.
I was unable to find another IT job in Kansas, so I left.
Now I have become quite addicted to working all over the world, so should I ever be forced back to America it would be temporary. Â I would probably apply at the company in France where I worked for a while or at Rareware in England.
Ultimately I will land in Tokyo and live for the rest of my life there.

L. Spiro

ChaosControl · « **Reply #5 on:** 2006-05-23 14:19:23 »

Quote from: spyrojyros_tail on 2006-05-23 13:46:52

7.65â‚¬/hour is minimum wage in Ireland

Minimum for what age? I'm 18 At the moment and the minimum paycheck for a 18 year old here is only 5,50â‚¬ so I think I'm doing pretty well ^_^.

Jedimark · « **Reply #6 on:** 2006-05-23 17:10:25 »

I would tell you who I work for but I'd have to kill you afterwards :p
And I aint tellin' you my salary either...

spyrojyros_tail · « **Reply #7 on:** 2006-05-23 17:40:50 »

That minimum wage applies to people over 18 (usually thats what you get paid but technically you have to be employed for two years to earn that amount), anyone under 18 gets paid about 5.30â‚¬/hour. L Spiro your job sounds sweet with all the benifits, "all expenses paid" have to be the three nicest words in the english language next to "i love you". Oh and you wouldnt have a hope in hell finding an appartment for that price anywhere in Ireland, I pay about â‚¬50 a week for my student accomodation and that is very very cheap considering the normal single room, single bed and house shared with about 4 different people is about 60 - 80 a week, and thats usually for a crap house too. That coupled with everything else costing over the odds (taxi's, food, drink) means that 7.65 here is the minimum you need to survive.

M0T · « **Reply #8 on:** 2006-05-23 18:03:26 »

Last year (From my 18th to just after my 19th birthday) I worked as a Project Support Assistant for Homebase (UK DIY chain), my first ever job and it was general officey type work.

Had a wage of â‚¬22,346 PA which works out as â‚¬11.65 an hour.

Now I am a geography student at the university of london kings college.

ficedula · « **Reply #9 on:** 2006-05-23 19:15:56 »

If I wanted to be different I could claim I'm a manager, but really I'm a programmer ;)Â Officially, Head of Development for Keystone Software Development, while technically that means I'm in charge of the other programmers and spend time arguing with our customers over how much development costs, I thankfully also spend a lot of my time programming - almost entirely in Delphi.

The chances are reasonably good that if you live in the UK you've bought/drank/eaten a product from a company using our software - particularly if you drink tea

- but you probably don't know it...

Covarr · « **Reply #10 on:** 2006-05-23 19:39:12 »

I'm perhaps one of the youngest people here that knows how not to say "help i need patch for crash in chocobos racing lol plz".

I'm only 17, and I graduate high school in about two weeks. During the summer break, I'll probably be doing some landscaping to earn money for college.

M0T · « **Reply #11 on:** 2006-05-23 20:31:53 »

Quote from: ficedula on 2006-05-23 19:15:56

Keystone Software Development

Is that like SAP but better (Well I could do better stock control in my head than sap but you get the idea)?

Sukaeto · « **Reply #12 on:** 2006-05-23 20:32:29 »

I just started my summer internship yesterday. I'm making 10.31USD/hr writing scripts at a hospital about 5 minutes away from my house.

When I'm done with all my degrees (I've got a ways to go yet), I'll be teaching at a University somewhere.

---Edit---

ugh . . . SAP. You're right, MOT. I think most of us COULD do better in our heads than SAP. SAP absolutely SUCKS.

Alhexx · « **Reply #13 on:** 2006-05-23 20:44:29 »

Well, unlike most of the other guys here, I'm not working as a programmer.

I'm currently 22, studying mathematics and computer science at University of Dortmund.

I often work in the company where my dad works, named HJS, producing car exhaust systems, catalysators and silencers (for cars, not for guns).
It's well known for producing the so called Sintered Metal Filters, which are build in into many modern diesel cars.
If you buy a new VW with a diesel engine, you have a good chance that my dad once had one part of your car in his hands...

I usually work there at night, because they pay more money

When working at night, I get ~ 11,50â‚¬ per hour.

I have never been working as a programmer yet, however, one of our professors at university said, that they are planning a project for multiplying big matrices, similar to the Strassen's Algorithm, but for Band-Matrices, and they were looking for a programmer to help them...
Maybe I'll get that job.

- Alhexx

ficedula · « **Reply #14 on:** 2006-05-23 21:11:39 »

Quote from: M0T on 2006-05-23 20:31:53

Is that like SAP but better (Well I could do better stock control in my head than sap but you get the idea)?

Yeah, not too far off. General business management software, including stock control, although we specialise in mail order processing. I've never seen SAP (I presume that's a good thing from the comments...) although I assume that naturally our product is better

Incidentally, I'm hiring at the moment, so if there's any Delphi developers need a job in East/North-east England, drop me a line...

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Relf · « **Reply #15 on:** 2006-05-23 22:21:58 »

I am unemployed, not uncommon for people in this area 16 years of age. So unlike the rest of you, the extraordinarily low end programming I do is for free. Though I could charge my fellow peers for the programs I write to answer my math homework

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Heroes of Might and Magic 3

A toast to you, I loved that game, still play it on occasion.

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I would tell you who I work for but I'd have to kill you afterwards :p
And I aint tellin' you my salary either...

For those of us who already know, should we start locking our doors at night?

M0T · « **Reply #16 on:** 2006-05-23 22:43:05 »

Quote from: ficedula on 2006-05-23 21:11:39

I've never seen SAP (I presume that's a good thing from the comments...) although I assume that naturally our product is better

Its the little things that make the difference in SAP, for instance if you make a load of changes of products (i.e. locations, new products, removing old ones) and it encounters an error (somethings on that location etc) it will lose everything since you last saved. Wouldn't be a problem but on the systems we had a sap save took about a minute (and I would be adding in sometimes hundreds of product lines), surely it could just ask to correct the location without throwing a hissy fit?

There were also about 3 different ways to bring up the same information with each one being progressively less usefull than the last.

Oooh also the way we ran sap it was on an overnight update, i.e. You can make changes but they wouldn't show in stores until the next day - Its a good idea because it stops all the tills in store buggering up when the systems change something (which would happen). Except that half the changes you made would not get actioned overnight because of a program bug, so you would have to wait a day until the system updated to sell products that have been sat in the warehouse for 24 hours wasting money.

Apparently it was marginally better than the oracle system that preceeded it, but unless oracle stabbed you in the face I'm not sure how.

Alhexx · « **Reply #17 on:** 2006-05-23 23:10:49 »

Mmmmm.... that SAP seems to be a nice piece of well-coded software...

- Alhexx

- Off-Topic Edit -
M0T:
It seems like you're the only member on this board who was loyal to his avatar for, erm, how long? 4 Years, right?
That's impressive!

- Off-Topic Edit #2 -
Hm, I also remember mirex using his avatar from the very beginning...

M0T · « **Reply #18 on:** 2006-05-23 23:25:10 »

It wasn't that long, about 2 years I think, I had the bashing xbox for a while...then I bought an xbox.

The SaiNt · « **Reply #19 on:** 2006-05-24 04:30:50 »

I'm 23, working in Sydney, Australia, originally from Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.

Work at Capital Markets CRC writing Java software for visualisation (mostly OpenGL) of commercial data for financial analysis.
Basically working on these two projects at the moment:
http://www.cmcrc.com/products/accountingx.html
http://www.cmcrc.com/products/auditx.html

Used to work in Vislab at the University of Sydney on a project that some of you might / might not know about.
http://wiki.vislab.usyd.edu.au/moinwiki/Lumino

Paywise, it's a reasonable amount to live comfortably, but work keeps me busy most of the time, mainly why I don't do so much "side work" nowadays.
Free time gets allocated to playing some games, or other recreational activities.

mirex · « **Reply #20 on:** 2006-05-24 07:28:09 »

Oh I forgot to show you what our company is doing, here: http://www.vrm.sk/ (its mostly simulation technology)

Quote from: L.Spiro

My involvement was absolutely 100% necessary (!) for the successful completions of the following titles:

Heroes of Might and Magic was released in year 1995 .. like 11 years ago. You mean you've been working on it back then ? Or do you mean that your company was porting the game somewhere, for example on GameBoy ? I see that release date on Gameboy is year 2000.

ChaosControl · « **Reply #21 on:** 2006-05-24 07:46:46 »

Well I work at www.repon.nl (www.roofengarden.nl).
It doesnt have much to do with my work, me being only the system admin..

But they make roofs and roof-gardens (you guessed it).

The people are fun (especially when complaining something aint working and it being their own fault).

kini · « **Reply #22 on:** 2006-05-24 08:41:32 »

hay qhimm are you part of the team making Opera Software for the nintendo DS, i was realy looking forward to the DS browser

im currently at university studying internet technology, its very time consuming, i havent had a full weekend off in about 2 months due to course work

but in 2 weeks i have a whole month or so off , ive been programming mainly in java, c# vb.net and a few others
i started editing games when pokemon came out, so im left behind with the 2d world.

L. Spiro · « **Reply #23 on:** 2006-05-24 10:42:48 »

I was involved with the re-release of the whole series under Ubisoft instead of 3DO.

We had to remove all cases of 3DO from the games and reorganize them for the install disks.

I found that Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and Heroes of Might and Magic 2 play their music from the disks, so we were unable to put them on the same DVD.

While asking my boss about the results of that project (whether it has been released or not) I found out we were paid for that project just Monday, and that we were also involved with Ubisoftâ€™s King Kong game.
Interesting; I didnâ€™t even know we did anything for that game.

L. Spiro

zero88 · « **Reply #24 on:** 2006-05-24 11:27:04 »

I'm perhaps one of the youngest people here that knows how not to say "help i need patch for crash in chocobos racing lol plz".

I'm only 17, and I graduate high school in about two weeks. During the summer break, I'll probably be doing some landscaping to earn money for college.

You're only 17 and graduating? Are you from the U.S.?

Everybody I know, myself included, is generally 18 or older when they graduate (I'm 18, graduate Sunday, 19 before the end of the year). I guess there are certain circumstances, starting school at an early age, getting bumped up, etc. etc.