Question What job(s) have you had?

[ky]

I just wanted to see in the orbiter community what jobs you currently have or have had in the past.It gives us younger orbinauts a chance to see what jobs we could potentially seek.

 

[Loru]

I run small advertising company.

 

[Eli13]

I'm going to do landscaping with some school friends during the summer and maybe get a job a krogers. I've mowed many many lawns and weed wacked fertilized all that stuff, worked at a neighborhood car wash and lemonade stand. I'm 14 what can I say?

 

[Krikkit]

Lets see.

First job at 15 pushing carts and bagging groceries. I worked there until I left for school. In the off seasons from school I worked for a different grocery store in produce. Then I had that short one semester paid undergraduate research assistant position. After I graduated I got a job as a test engineer for a small laboratory equipment company. After a year I quit and decided to go to grad school. Here I am back in school and working when I can at the same grocery store doing produce. Its like nothing has changed in the last 6 years.

 

[Quick_Nick]

No job yet. I'm 17 and busy with school. (though my girlfriend is already working at 15 )

 

[Capt_hensley]

See my bio, I've had a varied and full youth, Currently I set up a Simulation network at forward support locations for the US Army. We hook up the generals with WARSIM, and they learn how to do their jobs. My job title is Systems Engineer, I'm paid a sallery as a tech level 3.

My first job was as janitor for a local record store. I worked for my electronics teacher from my high school. I made $5.00 a week.

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[HarvesteR]

I've started out doing 3D renders for architectural visualizations... hard work and bad pay

Then I moved on to an internship as a game designer in a game company that later went kaput (thankfully I was long gone by then)

Later on, after I moved to Mexico, I started working on an interactive marketing company, as an all-round Artist / Programmer... that was some serious hard work!!
Now, finally, I get to do what I majored in, and I'm working on the development of an actual game

Cheers

 

[Eli13]

What's the game?

 

[Urwumpe]

Lets see...

Paperboy, setting up chairs and stages for events in the local hall, soldier, apprentice software developer, software developer for measurement technology, software developer for scientific computing, software developer for satellite navigation.

 

[Quintuss]

Helpdesk, junior system administrator, janitor (ive lost the bet ), merchandiser, lifeguard, security officer. Recently i started to think of a military career. And as a kid i wanted to be an astronaut ;p

 

[jedidia]

I learned the profession of a toolmaker and worked in that profession 8 years (aprenticeship included) before switching to humanitairian work. In between I had a short forced military career to the rank of corporal (yes, they can still do that in switzerland, although it's getting more and more uncommon). According to my superiors I was pretty good at it, but I really can't stand army life...

 

[Grover]

mine sorta falls under cooking: i work in a chippy/chinese takeaway. sometimes i end up cooking the chips and stuff when the full-time woman has to work in the kitchen or something, but i dont go near the chinese (unfortunatley )

the best thing about the job:
FREE FOOD!!!

 

[PhantomCruiser]

I fall into the 'other' category...
Flipping hamburgers, delivering pizza, U.S.Navy (10 years as aviation electronics), Lowes (hated it), Sears (television repair, laid off), security (easy) GE (microwave oven repair). All this set me up to work at Tennessee Valley Authority and a senior instrument mechanic foreman at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant.
It's been an interesting journey at times.

 

[Moach]

game programmer here - fun work, very challenging, always learning new stuff

plus, i get to play with my games as i program them - even my boss has commented on much much fun it looks.. usually, good programming is only rewarded by the absence of further problems - but with games, it's quite an enjoyable result :lol:


my current ongoing development is a motorcycle-trials flash game -- you know, one of those games where you ride the little bike over obstacles and stuff

i've built a new highly flexible quad-tree dynamics engine for it, allowing me to tailor the physics simulation to very specific needs (it's quite green, but working)

i went through the extra trouble so i could remove the recurring problems most games of this sort have where the bike becomes excessively flexible, due to being simulated as a set of independent bits....
my engine allows a combined physics solution to be applied to the bike as a whole - i.e. the wheels collide, but the acceleration is applied to the whole "rig" - thus, the bike doesn't "buckle", however badly you treat it - then proper damage simulation can be added later on :lol:


anyways, i digress... so yeah, i'm a professional geek

 

[Ghostrider]

I fall in many "other" categories...
First job I held was at a local computer shop back when the C64 was the hottest thing since Bananarama. Learned a lot about business-level software and databases. Then, of course, soldier (ok, service is mandatory here but you're paid for it so it qualifies as a job) and NCO, freelance photographer, freelance reporter, C4N6 specialist at a PI agency where I moved from lab rat to field mouse, field investigator for another PI agency, then self-employed PI.

 

[PeterRoss]

My first job was repairing s-300 launch vehicles electronic systems:shifty: It was kinda secret and stuff. Now I'm a service technician maintaining different complex security systems like video surveillance (CCTV), all kinds of alarm stuff (from office-scale to quite big ones like perimeter control), access control e.t.c. e.t.c.

 

[ky]

Finally we got some Engineering jobs!Right now im in pre-engineering doing robotics.

 

[Notebook]

Left school, went into family business(not a great idea it 15), road haulage. Did an apprenticeship, found out I like electronics more than mechanics, went back to college, got a job there as audio/video technician. Applied for training scheme at a UK tv broadcaster, amazingly got a place, stayed with them till they lost their franchise. Freelance/short-contract for last 10 years.
I can't recommend broadcast telly in the UK as a career, the engineering is fun of course, but its a mature industry, and they are looking to cut cost. Guess what that means? Defence industry is probaly most secure, and UK does a lot in sattelites, always worth a bit of research.

N.

 

[Eccentrus]

worked on and off as a clerk in my parents' store but then again that won't qualify as a job, as I don't take salary off it, and if this poll was made 4 years in the future, I would be the only doctor in the Orbiter Community

 

[ky]

S-300

So you worked on this Rocket?Cool!