What is your job ?

[DnFx91]

If any of you work with computers for a living, what does your job entail specifically ? I'm just curious, as computers obviously pervade almost every single industry and type of job, so there must be some of you on here that do some real funky shit with computers for a living, what do you do ? 

 

I'll start

 

I work for an AV Hire/Production company, i maintain, repair, deploy and hire-prep a fleet of about 300 machines ranging from macbooks, dell precisions, media server cabinets, and video blending racks. So basically my entire life is, installing windows, running Ccleaner, using clonezilla, phone activating microsoft office, testing PPT's that i know god damn well will run on my precision 7510's but the retard clients worry it's "too heavy", watching progress bars, torrenting to a ludicrous degree through the glorious company internet, and drinking coffee.

 

 

[Princess Luna]

I am a professional graduated translator but I started this year college for programming, information systems and such, really can not wait to start working on the field it is everything I like [:

[DnFx91]

Just now, Princess Cadence said:

I am a professional graduated translator but I started this year college for programming, information systems and such, really can not wait to start working on the field it is everything I like [:

cool man, you wanna make apps and stuff ?

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, DnFx91 said:

If any of you work with computers for a living, what does your job entail specifically ? I'm just curious, as computers obviously pervade almost every single industry and type of job, so there must be some of you on here that do some real funky shit with computers for a living, what do you do ? 

 

I'll start

 

I work for an AV Hire/Production company, i maintain, repair, deploy and hire-prep a fleet of about 300 machines ranging from macbooks, dell precisions, media server cabinets, and video blending racks. So basically my entire life is, installing windows, running Ccleaner, using clonezilla, phone activating microsoft office, testing PPT's that i know god damn well will run on my precision 7510's but the retard clients worry it's "too heavy", watching progress bars, torrenting to a ludicrous degree through the glorious company internet, and drinking coffee.

 

 

I build an upgrade PC's for pocket change really. From more exiting, and rare high end projects (the most high end was na X99/i7 5960X for my music producing uncle with a good few sound processing interfaces, but mostly digital) to upgrading older OEM systems. I personally use a lot of rack server's so I also buy and sell them as needed, as well as upgrade the ones I buy and sell on later, usually not at much of a profit since I want a fast sale to buy more. As a student, this definitely gives me some extra money to play with and acts like an educational hobby. 

[steffen_anywhere]

I study Electrical and Computer Engineering, I also work (during breaks and free time) for a company that specialises in Enterprise archive storage systems in their Software QA department. So nothing crazy I guess...

[DnFx91]

Just now, Lord Nicoll said:

I build an upgrade PC's for pocket change really. From more exiting, and rare high end projects (the most high end was na X99/i7 5960X for my music producing uncle with a good few sound processing interfaces, but mostly digital) to upgrading older OEM systems. I personally use a lot of rack server's so I also buy and sell them as needed, as well as upgrade the ones I buy and sell on later, usually not at much of a profit since I want a fast sale to buy more. As a student, this definitely gives me some extra money to play with and acts like an educational hobby. 

yh man to be honest that's what i really want to do, i would love to be self employed building and selling customs PC's for a living, but it's such a bastard to set up man

[Lord Nicoll]

1 minute ago, DnFx91 said:

yh man to be honest that's what i really want to do, i would love to be self employed building and selling customs PC's for a living, but it's such a bastard to set up man

It can be a bit annoying at times, but it's fun. 

 

[themctipers]

Be a leach 

 

how'd you think I got my PC?  

[jeffmeyer5295]

I work IT contracts. Mostly do large scale roll outs. The all out honest answer about what I do most of the time is format hard drives and image computers. Fun stuff.

[NinJake]

I support all users/computers for a city municipality. Well, it's my boss and myself. The two of us do all the work from setting up a printer to rolling out new software/servers/machines for the police department and their vehicles.

 

Very good fun, and it's nice having free-time every now and then... that means nothing is broken

[stealth80]

Aircraft engineer, a shit tonne of it paperwork and computer based, doctors, nurses and police think they have a lot of paperwork ....

 

 

[DnFx91]

1 minute ago, Lord Nicoll said:

It can be a bit annoying at times, but it's fun. 

 

yh man i love goin full geek with hardware, and every now and then i get my fix at work when i get to spec a new server or a batch of laptops or something, or maybe even build one myself but thats few and far between. Although im pretty sure im gonna be performing heart surgery on my rig soon, i am totally feeling Ryzen and Vega man

[WMGroomAK]

7 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

If any of you work with computers for a living, what does your job entail specifically ? I'm just curious, as computers obviously pervade almost every single industry and type of job, so there must be some of you on here that do some real funky shit with computers for a living, what do you do ? 

 

I'll start

 

I work for an AV Hire/Production company, i maintain, repair, deploy and hire-prep a fleet of about 300 machines ranging from macbooks, dell precisions, media server cabinets, and video blending racks. So basically my entire life is, installing windows, running Ccleaner, using clonezilla, phone activating microsoft office, testing PPT's that i know god damn well will run on my precision 7510's but the retard clients worry it's "too heavy", watching progress bars, torrenting to a ludicrous degree through the glorious company internet, and drinking coffee.

 

 

I work on maintaining and organizing various Geospatial Datasets to deploy into field scenarios for data collection, then bring back into GIS applications.  In addition I have to work with brining non-geotagged digital photos into those GIS applications for analysis. I also get to figure our what hardware and software we can deploy for data collection and what the limitations are.

[DnFx91]

2 minutes ago, jeffmeyer5295 said:

I work IT contracts. Mostly do large scale roll outs. The all out honest answer about what I do most of the time is format hard drives and image computers. Fun stuff.

yup, you know man. clonezilla ? ghost ?

[mikat]

I'm in highschool, but I work at my dad's photo store, and I love programming, so I'm currently automating the internet order workflow (in python), so when the orders come in they automagically show up on the printer computer

And I'm developing a website for IT class, with preact, mdl (getmdl.io), firebase and more  (pm me if you wanna collaborate on a javascript or python project )

[DnFx91]

1 minute ago, WMGroomAK said:

I work on maintaining and organizing various Geospatial Datasets to deploy into field scenarios for data collection, then bring back into GIS applications.  In addition I have to work with brining non-geotagged digital photos into those GIS applications for analysis. I also get to figure our what hardware and software we can deploy for data collection and what the limitations are.

wow your nomenclature is fantastic sir, i have no idea what you do but it sounds somewhat interesting

[Lord Nicoll]

1 minute ago, DnFx91 said:

yh man i love goin full geek with hardware, and every now and then i get my fix at work when i get to spec a new server or a batch of laptops or something, or maybe even build one myself but thats few and far between. Although im pretty sure im gonna be performing heart surgery on my rig soon, i am totally feeling Ryzen and Vega man

Definitely be a business to business type enterprise hardware, customers are a pain and really can be annoying to deal with for the money they pay. Businesses tend to understand more about system failures and will pay more to prevent then, and just want the equipment up and running again, often regardless of cost (up to a certain point of course) 

[DnFx91]

2 minutes ago, mikat said:

I'm in highschool, but I work at my dad's photo store, and I love programming, so I'm currently automating the internet order workflow (in python), so when the orders come in they automagically show up on the printer computer

And I'm developing a website for IT class, with preact, mdl (getmdl.io), firebase and more  (pm me if you wanna collaborate on a javascript or python project )

hehe that's cool but when the guys at work start talking code i get lost man, im all about dat hardware, i can do GUI haha

[DnFx91]

it's the only way to go realistically, i know full well that it's a pipe dream to build PC's for people for a living haha....... cries cos not linus

[Radiant]

i cannot work yet because i am 14, but when im older i want to to something in the yacht/aerospace design area or make apps and websites

[kelvinhall05]

I'm a professional, hard working, high earning 6th grader.

[mikat]

4 minutes ago, Radiant said:

i cannot work yet because i am 14, but when im older i want to to something in the yacht/aerospace design area or make apps and websites

you can always start learning to build apps or websites today, have you checked out sites like codecademy.com?

on youtube there are also plenty of great tutorials

[Guest]

Fix an issue a user has caused 

 

Get shouted at when something else goes wrong in the future because you touched their PC and changed a setting, now it's your fault

[mikat]

1 minute ago, AUniqueName said:

Fix an issue a user has caused 

 

Get shouted at when something else goes wrong in the future because you touched their PC and changed a setting, now it's your fault

Sounds like something a lot of people in the IT world go through.. I feel you man

[Radiant]

Just now, mikat said:

you can always start learning to build apps or websites today, have you checked out sites like codecademy.com?

on youtube there are also plenty of great tutorials

in the next few weeks, i am going to get into python (again after not using it for a year), and next week i am buying a HP DL380 g5 (hope itll be alright) to then host maybe a website and somekind of game server.... is dreamliner also good for simple website design?