I'm Curious

[whyBish]

I'm a software engineer at the moment. Currently building Oracle forms and reports (lots of PL/SQL). We are currently getting trained up in C#.Net, so will hopefully be out of the stoneage soon ;) . Also studying fulltime for my third tertiary qualification (BTech (CompSysEng) Hons. GDipSci(Math), GDipBS(Finance)) and trying to decide what to study next year, Psych, or Masters in A.I.

[Bun-Bun]

I'm a senior software developer at a leading maker of project planning software. At least, our marketing department thinks we're leading. :) I'm senior enough to have to maintain more code than I prefer, but at least I get to do things my way. Well, mostly.

Nice job, nice company, been doing it for nearly 9 years now. Employee #12.

I've been a software developer, a magazine editor, a boardgame playtester, a computer operator, and a convenience store clerk. I've also put a lot of unpaid time in on haunted houses, floating castles, and flying armadilloes.

[Kryn]

I currently work part-time at Rhino Video Games, a chain of video game stores in Florida. Not too bad for a summer job. Just stand around, talk about games, get paid, etc. In about a month though, I will be attending community college, which will last for 2 years, then I plan to transfer to the University of Florida. No clue what I want to study.

[Copadope]

Full-time college student for nine months of the year, nursing home groundskeeper for the remaining three.

I'm a rising senior psych major at Washington & Jefferson College, and although I don't know what I'm going to do after I graduate, I'm looking into human factor engineering (aka user-friendliness). I'm picking up a minor in math as well.

We'll see where it takes me... :P

[Chaerophon]

I'm a student, nearing the completion of my third-year at SFU. Majoring in Political Science with minors in both Philosophy and Economics. Eventually, I plan to head east (most likely to Brock, Queen's or University of Toronto) to complete post-grad work in Poli Sci with a focus on political theory. Eventually I hope to instruct at a university level, but we'll have to see what else comes up. Thanks in part to lounge discussion, I have actually shifted my focus to include a good deal of comparative politics, something in which I was merely dabbling before last year, in an effort to broaden my horizons with some more contemporary studies of 'real-world' politics.

As of right now, I'm working for some red-necked guys with no teeth roofing houses for minimal pay and tons of abuse. Needless to say, I'm looking around for another job :)

[LavCat]

I am an engineer, marketing person, IT director, and part time receptionist for a manufacturer of PC imaging peripherals. By training, I am a biochemist.

[Haider]

I am a software engineer (currently for Oracle Forms/Reports and PL/SQL, but I also know my C++, Java and a bit of C#). I do less programming and more trouble shooting and project management at the moment, since our Oracle products are mostly developed by external companies (too big to do it all ourselves).

[pakman]

I go to Purdue. BME is not yet an "official" major, but there is a prgram called IDE, Interdisciplinary Engineering (commonly called I Dropped Engineering by many engineering majors :P), that allows a person to take courses which make a BME degree. I think in another year or two, the engineering school will make an official BME program.

[Jeunemaitre]

What do you do?

-pakman

I finished my BS in Psych in 2000 and just last month passed the 3 yrs of experience mark at a small consulting firm doing health care research (I plan on holding my skill point until lvl 5 and putting it into "401k vesting"). The firm has two branches, most of my time is spent on pharmacoeconomics (cost-effectiveness of new/emerging drugs and delivery systems) but I also contribute to PRO work (Patient Reported Outcomes, usually measured in terms of quality of life, or functional status).

Up-side: lots of interesting information on treatment for different diseases: depression, schizophrenia, cancer (lung, colorectal, breast), atrial fibrillation/tachycardia, ED, etc.; using more of the things I learned in the classes that I wanted to take (chem, anatomy, dugs & human behavior, calculus, stats, abnormal psych) than the ones I had to take (child psych, adolescent psych, anthropology).
Down-side: realizing how much some of these treatments cost; walking the line between good science and pharma marketing; being beholden to the billable hour.

edit:mmm... mixed tenses.

[whyBish]

currently for Oracle Forms/Reports

I offer my condolences.

[Mark]

Electrical Engineer at Bombardier Aerospace, formerly Learjet.

I wish I was a retired Boeing engineer, Pete

Mark

[Wiccan]

Retired English literary professor from Harvard college, i have been retired for five years and wish i can go back soon, if i keep up with my medical treatments and medicine to help me keep my memory of context and grammar and punctuation skills.

Then i shall be okay.....

[Brimstone]

I finished up my bachelors in Computer Science in 2002, and graduated into the sargasso sea that was (and still is) the new-grad job market. :huh: I worked three months as a temp on a production line, and am presently (under)employed as a Data Center Analyst at Self Regional Healthcare. At the end of this month I will be submitting my packet for Army OCS, and going before the selection board. Hopefully I can actually get some USE out of my degree before I retire. :P

[--Pete]

Hi,

I wish I was a retired Boeing engineer, Pete

And I wish I wasn't. But after the Boeing-MacDac merger the company managed to take all the fun out of R&D. When the project I was on temporarily shut down, I just didn't have the drive or desire to look for another home. As one friend put it, "This isn't the company I went to work for or want to work for." Didn't really need the money, didn't want the aggravation. So I retired early. But it was a lot of fun for a long time and I got to do a lot of interesting things :)

--Pete

[Sword_of_Doom]

Hail everyone:

I am the inventor of post-it notes and currently am spending a lot of time dreaming on how i am going to spend all the money i am making off licensing and royalties.

[Griselda]

This past year, I taught in a Head Start preschool for 3-5 year olds. It was through the local University, who run it as a lab classroom, so I also had six undergraduate student teachers.

I may be there again next year, if my luck holds out.

-Griselda

[pakman]

I love little kids. So does my mom. She taught preschool for 25 years. Then some changes happened and she could no longer deal with the beauracracy of the place.

[goldfish]

Attorney, major firm in New York city. (Of course, I get shipped all over; just got back from a deposition in another state). Litigation work. Tried corporate, it wasn't bad, but liked lit a little better.

[Wapptor]

High school junior, awaiting freedom!

I work at an Indian Restuarant on the weekends hehe.

-Wapptor Would you like some chicken vindaloo?