Occupation Thread

[DigDog]

QA for videogames, some translation too. i can't really classify it as *my job* however, since my primary job is AV installer/audio tech, which i can't get work as. So .. unemployed.

 

[Phantomaniac]

My job description is pretty much the same. You're right that it's enjoyable because it's not the same thing every day. I always enjoy trips over to QA as well, though I don't make it over there as often as I'd like.

My problem is that I'm not sure where my career is going next. Originally I had planned on getting into full time network/systems administration. This company is so small that there isn't a need for that type of position, so I would have to leave. The other option is going into the development/QA department. I doubt I'm talented enough to be a dev, and I would worry about getting bored in QA. Rock and a hard place...

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Patent Attorney

 

[JulesMaximus]

I kill kittens for a living.

 

[Zivic]

Farmer. Fresh produce truck farm.. ~300 total acres

My dream job would either be a man of leisure or a kept man to a decent looking 55+ divorced woman (obviously the latter being only if my wife leaves me).

 

[nageov3t]

backup/storage admin

most of my day is spent with backup stuff (new client builds, restore requests, fixing backup failures, maintaining the backup servers, etc)

on the storage end, I'm mostly just tier 1/phone bitch support. because the senior-level storage admins refuse to pick up the phones, I end up taking storage problem calls and escalating it up the chain unless it's a stupid/simple problem (eg: someone unplugged a server's fiber cable)

 

[Kaido]

Tractor Trailer driver working for FedEx. Some one had to move this stuff around. From paper to big server racks. I've seen it all. Including pandas too.

I have 2 buddies who both migrated from IT into driving big rig trucks.

Both of them love it and neither ever wants to go back to IT (and both are getting paid LOADS better from their previous technical positions)

 

[xeledon20005]

I have 2 buddies who both migrated from IT into driving big rig trucks.

Both of them love it and neither ever wants to go back to IT (and both are getting paid LOADS better from their previous technical positions)

Problem is you have to drive big rig trucks though. Not my idea of fun.:|

 

[highland145]

Problem is you have to drive big rig trucks though. Not my idea of fun.:|

Looks like a lot of fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yeFfwzVtUQ

 

[PenguinPower]

It still is very, very common for admin functions to report to the CFO. IT and HR routinely reports to the CFO. There are good arguments why they should report to the CEO, especially at certain size and scale of companies or where IT is a core part of delivering value to the customer. However, you also can have too many direct reports to the CEO which dilutes their ability to set strategy as they end up managing too much.

It is more unusual to have Legal report to the CFO if there is a Legal department. Our GC left a while ago and my boss asked me to run it while we looked for replacement and that is still the case today.

I'm not sure how senior you are and experienced, but I have over a decade of "C" level positions in public companies now, I sit on a Board and I have presented to Boards for quite a while.

Michael

Congratulations on your success. However, anecdotal experience (as being espoused by several) does not mean that it is the norm. It is a well established fact that over the previous two decades, especially within the last decade, there has been an increase in functional heads reporting to the CEO.

The fact that you state that HR "routinely reports to the CFO" is just flat out wrong. Hell, in 1999 a majority of companies surveyed (n=300; large firms) had a Head of HR reporting directly to the CEO. That's been an increasing trend, and the same goes for the CIO position and General Counsel (same study, more General Counsels reported directly to the CEO than CFOs).

CEO SPOC has been increasing as well, and now averages around 10 direct reports. This doesn't dilute the CEOs ability to set strategy...it enhances it. Not only do they have a more direct finger on the pulse of the business, they now have more functional experts at the table to weigh in and then deliver on the strategy.

I don't have C-suite experience, but I am currently an executive in the Human Resources function for a large firm.

 

[Michael]

You need to read a little more critically. Smaller firms out number larger firms by far. Smaller firms have very different reporting structure. I think if you looked at a study of companies with a market cap below $500M, you'll see a lot more situations where the CFO has admin functions reporting to him.

In my last company, the GC ran HR as well. This is the second time I have ran IT as a CFO. I have recruiters approach me on a regular basis (the retained search firms that look for C level talent) an I would say about 50% of the CFO jobs proposed to me have IT reporting to the CFO.

I agree in larger companies, it is much more common today to have each major function with a senior leader that reports to the CEO. I am an experienced executive, but I am not a trained HR executive. I am better in IT (as can be seen by my long membership here).

Michael

 

[trmiv]

systems administrator

 

[mmntech]

Not if you want to make good money. Most high-paying jobs have considerable interaction with computers -- engineers, lawyers, doctors, etc. The list goes on and on. Heck, even in the NFL, football playbooks are increasingly being given to players on iPads.

Yep, my entire job is done via computers. All research, social media, updating the website, recording videos and sending those to the website. There's five in my studio. Six if you count the Miranda Multiviewer. Even on the TV side, there's huge server banks serving up videos. Graphics, switching, editing all digitally. Weather team relies on government super computers. Even the cameras are all robotic. Fun stuff.