What kind of job do you have? Can we try to get a semi-serious survey?

[rcpratt]

I am an engineer at a mid-size electric and natural gas utility in the Midwest. I work on the electric side.

For the first three years of my career, I was a licensing engineer working on the license application for our potential new nuclear plant. Lots of interaction with our engineering firms, etc., but I did not perform a lot of "hard" engineering. Lots of writing, lots of dumbing things down for moronic NRC employees/contractors.

For the last four months, I've been working as a principal market engineer in a group called Generation Optimization. Each day, our group is responsible for offering all of the company's generation into the MISO market and bidding for all of the company's load. I work in the market analytics group. Our job is to use our knowledge of the energy market to operate and dispatch each of our units in the most cost-effective way possible. Lot's of interaction with the plants. Lot's of spreadsheets. We manage everything from fuel blending to outage management/scheduling to emissions control to use of natural gas overfire.

 

[Cappuccino]

Uni student. I get paid, then the greedy government steal the money from me!

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

So how many of you IT guys are going to admit reading the Intra-office chat client logs to get all the latest gossip/drama/etc?

I could read emails and such, but I don't unless there is a requirement to (which is very rare). However there have been a few times where alerts popped up from some flags that are out there for keywords. We looked at the emails in question and sent them a friendly reminder that all email is logged and monitored. So they might not want to talk bad about people or about their bedroom adventures through work email...

The other one was when we were moving from one NAS to a newer NAS and we had to have people clean up documents out on the old one. It also stored some user level folders which happened to have a few that were way huge (like 20-30 gb's compared to most users 200-300 mb). So we start digging in to see if it's work stuff that can't be deleted or what. Find out it's a lot of pictures talking about big dicks and how this user wants those, among music as well. Not sure what happened with that person, we reported it to our boss who shipped it to HR.

It's amazing what people either don't care about or are oblivious to.

 

[Dedpuhl]

Interesting. That's somewhat where I want to be in the next two years. Do you like your job? Do you use AutoCAD/NovaPoint a lot?

My job is …ok. I think office politics are making the work much less enjoyable.

I used to do more AutoCAD and GIS work. Now, I have CAD techs that do all my drafting and base design while I handle the detailed calcs and design. The programs I've use the most in the past year are Word and Excel.

 

[slightlyhuman]

Twilight Unload when I was 18...threw up my first night on the job. Man did that get me in shape...

i'm saying. i would stack without hesitation. man that was job was tough. i was a splitter too.

 

[Brainonska511]

I'm a graduate research assistant in chemistry studying membrane proteins and their structure-dynamics-function relationship.

 

[rudeguy]

I'm a graduate research assistant in chemistry studying membrane proteins and their structure-dynamics-function relationship.

You're still on welfare?


Did the grant thing ever get straightened out after th3 shutdown?

 

[I Saw OJ]

I have my own business leasing around 80 acres of orchard/vineyard. I'm a one man show doing all the book keeping, field work, repairs, what have you. It's long hours at times but I'm my own boss so that does have its benefits plus I get to work outside with my hands which I enjoy.

 

[SandEagle]

consultant
male model (part-time)

 

[mode101wpb]

Mechanical Engineer, I make things that fly at 30,000+ feet, all I can say.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Change mine to oilfield 18 wheeler driver. I guess I'm living up to my name. Keep finding myself in the oilfield. The money keeps pulling me back.

 

[country2]

System Support (Industrial Maintenance) I do everything from mechanical to electrical and now plc troubleshooting.

 

[cavemanmoron]

What kind of job do you have? Can we try to get a semi-serious survey? Let's get the lame and your 'witty' responses out of the way (hooker and blow, professional neffer, 800k just being a 1%, etc).

What do you do? I've always admired those of you here with such extensive tech skills. Maybe your title and write a bit about what you do?

Me: Project Manager in a pharma consulting, dabble little bit of IT, I plan/write/review IVR mapping and end-user interface that nurse hotline agents use for cancer patients that need help with their oncology prescriptions.

POLL???

Retired. 10/24/2013.

 

[silverpig]

Management / strategy consulting

 

[biostud]

I could read emails and such, but I don't unless there is a requirement to (which is very rare). However there have been a few times where alerts popped up from some flags that are out there for keywords. We looked at the emails in question and sent them a friendly reminder that all email is logged and monitored. So they might not want to talk bad about people or about their bedroom adventures through work email...

The other one was when we were moving from one NAS to a newer NAS and we had to have people clean up documents out on the old one. It also stored some user level folders which happened to have a few that were way huge (like 20-30 gb's compared to most users 200-300 mb). So we start digging in to see if it's work stuff that can't be deleted or what. Find out it's a lot of pictures talking about big dicks and how this user wants those, among music as well. Not sure what happened with that person, we reported it to our boss who shipped it to HR.

It's amazing what people either don't care about or are oblivious to.

I once worked at a major law firm and some of the guys in IT were downloading lots of torrents. Would probably not look good if it was discovered...

 

[Gilligansdingy]

Change mine to oilfield 18 wheeler driver. I guess I'm living up to my name. Keep finding myself in the oilfield. The money keeps pulling me back.

Damon?

 

[Eureka]

Electrical/Controls Engineer. I mastered in controls engineering but it seems the majority of my job is in electronics. Although I do get to write the odd control algorithm here or there.

 

[DT4K]

Tech Lead for a MES software company.
I mainly do this stuff:
Have lots of meetings with clients to learn about their manufacturing process and determine their specific needs
Design custom components(back-end logic/web forms/etc.) to bridge the gaps between our OOB software and their specific needs.
Teach clients how to use our software and how to model their manufacturing process.
Test the custom components that are delivered by our developers.
Troubleshoot issues the clients have with our software.
Work directly with clients throughout the life of a project.

When I'm not assigned to an active project, I do this stuff:
Develop new functionality for our software.
Create and update training course materials.
Teach classes to new employees and customers on how to use our software.

I love the job. After 11 years as a software developer/engineer, it's been nice to move beyond writing code and into more design/consultant/PM type work. I also love working directly with customers and being the guy to deliver their shiny new software and see how much they like it. I also travel a lot, which is a pro and a con at the same time. It's hard to be away from family for a week or two at a time, but I can't complain too much about having to go to Italy 4 times in the last 6 months.

 

[Tweak155]

Tech Lead for a MES software company.
I mainly do this stuff:
Have lots of meetings with clients to learn about their manufacturing process and determine their specific needs
Design custom components(back-end logic/web forms/etc.) to bridge the gaps between our OOB software and their specific needs.
Teach clients how to use our software and how to model their manufacturing process.
Test the custom components that are delivered by our developers.
Troubleshoot issues the clients have with our software.
Work directly with clients throughout the life of a project.

When I'm not assigned to an active project, I do this stuff:
Develop new functionality for our software.
Create and update training course materials.
Teach classes to new employees and customers on how to use our software.

I love the job. After 11 years as a software developer/engineer, it's been nice to move beyond writing code and into more design/consultant/PM type work. I also love working directly with customers and being the guy to deliver their shiny new software and see how much they like it. I also travel a lot, which is a pro and a con at the same time. It's hard to be away from family for a week or two at a time, but I can't complain too much about having to go to Italy 4 times in the last 6 months.

Four separate times in the past 6 months? I'd be livid.

 

[DT4K]

Four separate times in the past 6 months? I'd be livid.

People just roll their eyes when I say it, but it actually did get old by the 4th time. Especially when working 10 to 12 hour days.

Although I managed to fit in a day in Brussels on my return trip last time. I highly recommend it. Beautiful city and paradise for a beer lover.

I might end up going to France or Germany for my next project. Unfortunately, I could also end up going to Buffalo or Milwaukee.

 

[Tweak155]

People just roll their eyes when I say it, but it actually did get old by the 4th time. Especially when working 10 to 12 hour days.

Although I managed to fit in a day in Brussels on my return trip last time. I highly recommend it. Beautiful city and paradise for a beer lover.

I might end up going to France or Germany for my next project. Unfortunately, I could also end up going to Buffalo or Milwaukee.

No I'd seriously be livid lol. How about plan better so I just stay there longer??

I hate flying, and I'm sure that is not a quick flight.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I clean cum off the floor of the bang bus.

 

[BoberFett]

IT manager at a medium-largish health and human services company. I oversee half the department: the network, systems, and applications teams report to me.

 

[Aharami]

IT manager at a medium-largish health and human services company. I oversee half the department: the network, systems, and applications teams report to me.

UHG?

 

[OVerLoRDI]

Technical resource for a fleet of copier sales people. I go an appointments, quote out a variety of different software/hardware solutions that integrate with the copiers or don't and then plan implementations. So hybrid of Outside Sales/Sales Engineer.

Actually a super fun job, very flexible, pay is quite good for someone my age. I pulled down 60k in my first full year and I'm 24 years old with a Bachelors degree. Likely being promoted next year and getting another raise (I've received 2 raises since I started 1.5 years ago)