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After being allured by the adorable dozing puppy, I went into !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! post. Once seeing some of the comments, I began to wonder what everyone around here did for a living.
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So let's hear your jobs (if you want to share). You don't have to get real detailed if you don't. Just curious what happens on the other side of the comments around here.
Me, I am a print specialist for an agency that basically has one large client. I buy print for a baby/infant/toddler nutrition company. I also do some basic "production" type graphic design work, plus a bunch of other random tasks. I actually like my job. I am lucky because I have an awesome boss, make good money for this area and enjoy my job.
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Parts Monkey for a Volvo, Aston Martin, Mercedes, and Lotus dealership. I was a tech here for a couple years before, came back but to parts. Still, occasionally head out to the shop though (Friday)
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Design Engineer for a subcontractor of Boeing, Embraer, and other aerospace companies
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Director of Digital Marketing and Design for an ad firm that works for tier 3 car dealers. Just close enough to the industry for me to like it. Just far enough away to not get sick of it. I like my job, employees, and the rest of the staff.
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Oh cool! I do software QA for Fibersim which is used by those manufacturers - not sure if you're in one of the areas that use our software.
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I move box's for a shipping company. So many car parts go through my hands because of it!! And thus makes me want to spend money -.-
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My degree's in aerospace engineering, but I'm working for one of the Big 3 right now.
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I work in IT as a desktop support analyst
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more than likely not, i get to model on CATIAV5 all day :D
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I'm mainly a buyer for an Automated Guided Vehicle company, I also handle some quoting, returns, stocking, repairs and other random things. My job tends to be pretty varied throughout the day because of that, so I like it!
On the side I do some automotive blogging (for 3 blogs that I own) through which I make a nice little bit of side-income.
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Employee/Labor Relations in a federal hospital.
Translation: The guy managers love and employees hate. Basically function as an internal consultant fixing peoples employee problems.
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Sounds like fun :O
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I work as a Directional Driller and Measurements while Drilling Engineer for a major oilfield services company. I spend most of my time on rigs in South Texas.
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I moved boxes around the warehouse one summer for Moroso Performance in CT. I know the feeling. Want this want that!
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I'm a product manager for software vendor to the collision industry.
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I'm an IT contractor, currently working a desktop support role for a major insurance and financial services company.
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Mostly sheet-metal design and unit drawings at a high-precision temp & humidity control co. Some secondary engineering/sourcing - I could refer to myself as a sous-engineer, I suppose.
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Yay IT nerds unite! I do it for the Army (Active duty not contractor)
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I work for a bank. I add, change and remove user's accounts for all the systems they need to preform their jobs. I play with a lot of scripts and automation to do these tasks.
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Glad I'm not the only one, lol, I'm probably lucky that not all box's have it written clearly on the outside whats inside of them :P
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I have 10+ years in the Microsoft space performing desktop support, systems administration and monitoring duties
I'm currently running an autodialer for an outbound telemarketing company
Kill me please
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I help the Gov't save money when they buy things.
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Pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Heading to my recurrent simulator training today.
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rarely, but I amuse easily :]
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Your job is cooler than mine, I work for a long term care pharmacy. I used to work for a power generation company, that was a bit more fun, but this job has a strong potential of going full time soon.
Thank you for your service
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Process engineer at a continuous hot dip galvanising line. By education I have an MSc in Materials Science & Engineering.
Pic is relevant, but not from the line I work at.
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I work in sales for a digital marketing software company. We personalize and create relevant experiences across web, email, and display ad interactions. Not the cheap..you viewed these shoes 5 years ago type of stuff, we blend into native creative content and work with Best Buy, Nike, Ralph Lauren, etc.
I also cruise Oppo.
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Architect. Well technically draftsman because I don't have my licence yet. I have 1/7 tests completed for my licence and have the second in mid march.
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lol yeah these were big open boxes of intake manifolds, headers, these were all the ex r and d blocks sitting there. Best part of the job was hearing one of the 602ci performance marine engines fire off for testing with open headers. Holy crap would that place shake
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I studied marketing in college and loved it, but I'm stuck doing construction for now. So.... can you get me a job? I'm serious.
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You get to look at Lotus's and Aston Martin's fairly often surely? :P
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I develop language courses and mobile learning products. It ain't bad, environment is super relaxed, leaving me lots of Oppo time, but I need to look for something more challenging soon.
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Cooler sometimes yeah, when I go out to the field or whatever, but for the most part I just work in an office, and wait for people to have problems (99% of what I do is just re-imaging a computer anyways), but it does give me a ton of opportunity to learn about all kinds of different problems, because in the Army there are people who barely know how to use a computer, and they screw up all kinds of things, in ways that I seriously have to sit there and try to figure out how they even got there.
And I appreciate it man. Stick with IT, and don't get specialization certifications until you get with a company you want to stay with a long while, they will want to train you to do it their way.
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I hired in October and put out a want ad right to oppo. Must have missed it! I am not hiring again for a while unfortunately.
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All I do all day is browse oppo and the FP while I wait for shit to go down lol. My last job I would reimage computers often off the pxe boot server, it was so simple. We had a standard image of 7 64 bit enterprise. My new job our setup isn't nearly as advanced as at my last place, so things are more involved in some ways. We have a mix of XP and 7, and computers from old HP's to old lenovos to new lenovos that I ordered and built.
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I run logistics for a medium size development firm based in Brooklyn. Additionally, I freelance for one the biggest construction firms in the New York metropolitan area. We've worked on, among other notable sites, these buildings:
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Parts Department Manager for a Mazda dealer.
Former Dodge/Mits tech that got laid off and needed a new job. This one is cushier, and I don't owe the tool trucks any money! But I don't get to drive as much other stuff as I used to.
I also sell on eBay (mainly car parts) from time to time.
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Since I'm still young my jobs are fairly basic and don't earn a living. My one job is as a pump jockey etc. at a service station. I run the fuel pumps, register, sell lottery, basically everything up front because we're a full service gas station. I'm also in charge of keeping the place looking decent. Sometimes I help out in the garage when we aren't super busy.
My summer job is what really makes the money. Helping to restore a long abandoned building. It was built in the late 1800s. The last owners basically filled it with junk and left it since maybe the 1980s. I've done everything there from removing said junk, foundation and concrete work, plaster removal (that absolutely sucked), to working at our annual garage sale and barbecue. Basically I'm the jack of all trades there. We plan to restore it to use as a restaurant/diner and for the place for their mom and pop pickle making.
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Systems Engineer designing weapons and defense systems though for the last year my bosses have been weaning me from the technical stuff into contracts, budgeting, and management.
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I've done almost every job their is to do in Automotive Advertising. (Writer, Designer, Web Developer, Flash Developer, Account Executive, Asset Management)
But I've settled into a little niche of the Ad World.
Digital Asset Manager.
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It's all good man, thanks anyway!
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Where do you live?
(Automotive Ad Guy Here!)
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Wait, the Government SAVES money on things?!
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I will let you know if that changes though!
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I'm the print operations manager for a small pervasive media fulfillment company. This means I'm equal parts printer mechanic (both Inkjet and Xerox color press), cat artist herder, professional color nerd, quality control specialist, product development engineer, automation process coder/developer, and shipping/receiving expert. Our whole company is only 23 employees but there's a 99.9% chance that you have seen or handled something we made. Did I mention PERVASIVE.
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Queens, NY. I'd go for anything in the Tri-State area, though.
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I work on the line for Chrysler. In their sterling heights assembly plant. We build the 200 there.
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Congrats on liking your job, and your boss and making good money!
I have a BFA in graphic design and still do logo design on the side, but my day job is as a software/mapping specialist for an oil and gas company. Not my dream job, but I like the people I work with and they pay me very well for something I'm good at, so I can't complain!
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yup, in pieces while working on them :] Neat looking cars but "Hand Assembled in England" is a scary thing
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Yeah that's pretty much exactly what I do as well. Hell your last job is more advanced then how we do it here, we boot off USB to ghost. We had to do the migration recently, along with some life cycle replacements, and jesus that was just a pain in the ass.
And that is pretty random, why have XP with 7? Still using some legacy apps?
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Red or blue?
My wife was a field engineer for Schlumberger for three years, based out of Duncan, OK. Was her first job out of college, and after we got married - was a rough three years, but we made it through!
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Bleeding the Blue. I think we've talked about this before.
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Ha! I think you're right...
Hope they're still treating you well.
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I honestly couldn't tell you but I'm trying to slowly push everyone into 7. It all probably comes back to us having old computers and stuff. We use a specific Pharmacy software called FrameworksLTC that is the entire backbone of our company, and when LTC 4.0 comes out this year, it won't run on windows XP. I can't wait to see how we're going to handle that lol.
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Well the pay is good, everything else sucks. Treating me well enough I guess.
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Oh nice. When it comes out theres going to be a ton of people saying, "You didn't tell me it wouldn't work, fix it now!" type of crap. At least when it comes to migration that stuff is mandated, so you have to do it. Even that becomes a clusterfuck though because of budget cuts we can't get new computers sometimes, but every computer has to be W7, so we have these computers that shipped with XP or 2000 on them, putting W7 on them and they barely run at all.
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I work part time as an helpdesk technician in a call outsourcing center, fixing whatever the employes manage to break while I complete my studies in aerospace engineering
I know that feeling.
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Not familiar with any of those buildings....
Just kidding! That is pretty awesome!
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Awesome! Learn all that you can while you are young, and you can do anything later when you are old(er).
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nifty ;)
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That's pretty awesome! The company I am actually employed by only has 10 employees, including the owner, and we get a lot of stuff out there. Pretty amazing what a small company can do.
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Our software is actually used in conjunction with Catia (and NX, and Pro/E) to design the material layup and shapes of composite materials (once you have the tooling shape). So I guess probably not unless you're doing design work in composites.
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Systems engineer for a drone company. Not as technical as I would like
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Yeah I have had it good with getting this job with an associate's degree and some past printing experience. I must be doing something right!
And I wish I was able to do more graphic design work, but I do enough now to kind of keep my knowledge and skills at a medium level.
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We have a couple of XP > 7 machines here, its certainly not the way to go. They run so damn slow it'd be better to just leave XP on it. I find that 4gb for windows 7 is a minimum to have it running smooth and quick. 2GB, which is the absolute max that most of these XP machines can handle, makes 7 run pretty lethargic at most times.
At my last job when we moved into our new office, we had a room for the energy traders (think of the stock market except dealing with electricity) and had cinemassive setup a video wall. Apparently this company has done video walls for the likes of the DoD and NASA. I actually setup the computer for this wall, it was an HP tower with a quad core xeon processor and dual nvidia graphics cards with 4 mini HDMI outs each. I think it had something like 12gb of ram. Its been a while.
I was messing around with the screen at work one late night (I had pandora playing through the ceiling speakers to), I wanted to see if this pic that one of the VP's of google took with his 25,000 dollar Phase One camera (Remember the google exec that put bread on his cars? Thats this guy) would fit on this screen. Spoiler alert, it didn't
This is what the screen looked like for actual work stuff
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I'm a police officer serving a city of 60,000, a size of about 17 square miles, in suburban California. We employ about sixty sworn officers. I'm currently assigned as the School Resource Officer, the best benefit of which is the lovely brown Crown Victoria take-home car sitting in my driveway.
Other than my personal interest in cars, this profession truly has "driving" at its heart - some days I'm a race car driver, others I'm a deliveryman. Never the same day twice.
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Civil/Environmental engineer. I keep shit in pipes and sanitize water so that people aren't drinking diseases all from the safety of a cubicle in an office building.
I'm basically batman in that my work is super important to society, but no one really knows it.
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I personaly have not done any composite, but we have been doing some composite jobs for North Carolina and the South Seattle R&D dept.
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I'm out in Detroit area sorry.
Man that's a loaded area for Marketing/Advertising.
Lincoln is moving the majority of their Ad operations to NYC as part of the Hudson Rouge ad agency. Check em out.
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I'm an attorney licensed to practice in Puerto Rico and the Federal Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, although currently I'm taking an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law and next semester I'll start an M.A. in International Relations.
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I work for a university in the Operations dept and dabble in IT support when stuff goes wrong that I know how to fix. I make fairly decent money but not all that great since I live in expensive ass NYC or for the amount of work I do. And my boss is the worst, Oppo and bud is how I keep my sanity.
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Well, when they use our service...
We basically provide a reverse auction platform that allows competitors to see if they have the lowest price on an procurement buy, and adjust their price accordingly. It's only really for products and simple services, but essentially we help prevent 90 dollar toilet seats. We are also working with some commercial entities and state/local governments as well
Here's a link to our site
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That is a pretty baller set up right there, and a monster of a machine powering it. But yeah, a lot of people don't understand the whole RAM thing with the xp to 7 machines, especially since it's the 32 bit operating system, can't tell you how many times I've heard "Oh can't we just put more ram in it?"
I've seen a few set ups like that before, but those are for the big ass conference rooms that have generals heading them up, so I pretty much never get to work with them. But it is a glorious thing when you are working with them, makes going back to a single monitor set up depressing.
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"I gotta wake my ass up at 6am every morning this week—drive up to Las Colinas—yeah I'm doing the drywall at the new McDonalds."
I do inspection and materials testing on commercial and government construction sites. From initial ground breaking to 100 year old buildings, I've done some kind of inspection on them. Still trying to put this CWI to use...
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Nice. Glad someone is keeping them from burning ALL our money.
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Currently a consultant for an auto manufacturer; formerly an automotive market research program manager.
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Yeah I know, to be honest I haven't really tried to find something.
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NYC in the house. I wonder how many of us are on Oppo. We should make some NYC post and try to do a meet in the summer
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Do you wear a batman outfit to work? If not, maybe you should start.
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Our board room had a 4 -48" monitor setup, this was a 8 - 60" monitor setup IIRC. Both rooms had video cameras for teleconferencing. The CEO went all out on the IT budget to impress the board members with our new office.
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You're not the first to suggest this, but it is a good idea for sure. There's a few of us here. There's a couple guys from Brooklyn/Queens, and a few from Long Island.
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It's a really saturated market so it can actually be really hard to find a spot. Not from lack of agencies/companies but from too many applicants.
Good luck!
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Nah, it would be too obvious. Besides, working in Nashville, we already have a hero to look up to.
I may be the hero Nashville needs, but not the one it deserves.
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That is pretty badass. Always gotta love someone who showers the IT department with money, whatever the reason may be, I love getting new crap and installing it and setting it up, the only thing that I hate about setting up an office, is VOIP phones, I hate doing those lists.
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We had cisco voip phones there. I much prefer them over the lucent phones we have now.
Although to be honest I don't even have my own phone right now and I'm kind of okay with that.
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I work for a mobile software company in Ottawa. My education is mechanical engineering so I'm looking to get into robotics either as my current company expands or at different place closer to Toronto.
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I source parts for power lines for companies all over the country. No I am not the anti-Christ...
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I mean yeah voip phones once you get them up, are pretty awesome, pretty much set and forget, and if you need to change numbers, or this or that, it really is incredibly easy, as compared to old style (whatever the hell they call them), but initial, it's a pain, but then again any initial IT set up is a pain.
Yeah, I have my own phone now but I didn't before, it is awesome because people can't get mad at you if they can't get a hold of you.
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Test engineer for Bosch.
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What type of product does your company mainly do that requires continuous HDG?
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It's one of our founding principles, and one of the reasons we continue to grow: Efficency! We're all lazy bastards, and as I like to say: "If you want to find a way to make something easier/more efficient hire a lazy bastard with a sense of pride in thier work. He/she will figure out how to save themselves effort more effectively than anyone else" ;)
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That sounds like it could be fun!
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Our lucent phones don't even have voicemail. What kind of crap is that!?
Not only that, they all have the exact same ringtone. So when someone rings the main line, like 75% of the phones in the building go off and good God is that obnoxious.
We're probably going to get a new phone system after our expanding is completed. I am pushing towards a Cisco VOIP.
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Wow I will admit I had no idea the kind of crowd we had was not only well versed in the field we all know and enjoy (cars, duh) but also important components of (some) large companies! I'm impressed Oppo.
I am fairly young still, and just graduated college last May. I work at Cerner, a healthcare IT company that hosts and manages medical records and supporting systems. My particular duties involve performance monitoring of the virtual systems hospitals around the world use as well as back-end Linux management. And some other tasks here and there, but that is it in a nutshell.
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Yeah get those VOIP ones man. That crap is ridiculous, and I hate the similar ringtone, if I'm not in my office and the phone rings I always have to go see if it's mine.
And no voicemail? What the hell, not even call waiting?
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I'm a medical doctor. Extremely busy but I'm happy.
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All we have is hold and transfer, thats like our two big functions.
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And I've also got two years at the tech school under my belt in the diesel program this is my third year, but I'm working at the service station instead of having to go to class.
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Currently I'm a Full-Time Student at East Carolina University, but I work with Campus Recreation as a Graphic Designer/Photographer in the Marketing department. I do photography of the various sports and activities, then use my own photography to create marketing materials for the Recreation center.