Tech job - what do you do for living?

[3 Lions]

I'm currently gathering up qualifications to become a motor vehicle technician, cars these days are filled with tech. My dad however is a CNC programmer for 2 Waldrich Coburg machines, he's worked for the same company for about 28 years. The company he works for makes barrels/liners, dies/ancillaries & feedscrews for the recycling and plastic industry and these machines are the only two machines of their kind in the UK. 

Edited August 2, 2019 by LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo

[cluelessgenius]

software development consultant. so i do projekt based work for a couple of months usually bfore then switching to another client. 

ohh and not the cool kind of software development you might think of. usually the boring kind. like automotive and testing software. 

[wojtepanik]

2 minutes ago, cluelessgenius said:

software development consultant. so i do projekt based work for a couple of months usually bfore then switching to another client. 

ohh and not the cool kind of software development you might think of. usually the boring kind. like automotive and testing software. 

so you are responsible for programming cars? infotainment systems ?

[wojtepanik]

5 minutes ago, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

I'm currently gathering up qualifications to become a motor vehicle technician, cars these days are filled with tech. My dad however is a CNC programmer for 2 Waldrich Coburg machines, he's worked for the same company for about 28 years. The company he works for makes barrels/liners, dies/ancillaries & feedscrews for the recycling and plastic industry and these machines are the only two machines of their kind in the UK. 

I used to me junior mechaninc in car workshop, I do a lot of stuff in my own car, also my biggest side client is workshop where I used to work

[cluelessgenius]

16 minutes ago, wojtepanik said:

so you are responsible for programming cars? infotainment systems ?

not really. why? you got complains? 

no right now i just help writing the test softare they use to test their systems.

those things get written by embedded developer im more on the windows side. 

but i do get to listen in on what they are doing and planning on doing so i totally get the problems with alot of them. if you knew whats going on at some companys...man i cant name them but some car manufacturers really need to get their shit together. even the pressumably high quality ones. 

[Ambious]

I'm a programmer for Intel, at the Wireless and Connected Systems group in Israel. I write software and do DevOps for the Windows WIFI driver team.

[jiyeon]

I was formerly working in a helpcentre working support over the phone to clients who called in with queries and issues for half a year until leaving it for a retail job.

[harryk]

PhD student in astrophysics; self described astro-engineer because I am not the typical astronomy student. My research interest is on instrument and telescope system design and observational methodology.

[Raytsou]

I'm an undergrad studying EE&CS. But for this summer I'm doing research at CSAIL regarding perception (3D SLAM) in autonomous cars stuff.

[PlayStation 2]

I like to fuck with computers so, naturally, I work at a restaurant and retail store as a cashier.

[wANKER]

Tech jobs summarised. 

 

Instagram: Take a few cool words from the 'industry description' of what you do, apply engineer to the end

Reality: I Google stuff

[lostboy]

I'm an IT Manager / Systems Analyst for a large construction company. Custom PC Builds and PC work on the side when I'm bored. 

 

I do consulting to small companies on the side who Hate the MSP trends in the IT industry 

[Mira Yurizaki]

I'm a software developer. I can tell you the type of software I deal with isn't something most people normally use.

[Sylvie]

i was an engineer

now i play video games c­:

[AthrunZ]

On 8/2/2019 at 9:46 AM, cluelessgenius said:

not really. why? you got complains? 

no right now i just help writing the test softare they use to test their systems.

those things get written by embedded developer im more on the windows side. 

but i do get to listen in on what they are doing and planning on doing so i totally get the problems with alot of them. if you knew whats going on at some companys...man i cant name them but some car manufacturers really need to get their shit together. even the pressumably high quality ones. 

Given some of the issues I've seen and heard of from coworkers and friends, I wouldn't be as surprised as you think. 

 

Both my Subaru and Mini (BMW based) infotanment systems are hot garbage.

 

 

 

As for myself, I work in the New York region at GlobalFoundries, the semiconductor manufacturer best known by this community for Ryzen 1st & 2nd gen (though not third gen, which is kinda sad for us..)

[MadAnt250]

2 hours ago, AthrunZ said:

Both my Subaru and Mini (BMW based) infotanment systems are hot garbage.

I was an ASE certified automotive technician, the Mini/BMW dealer will make you pay out the @$$ to have something simple replaced rather than fixing it by soldering the broken connection.

[NineEyeRon]

I write documents for IT company.

[Lurick]

I'm a solutions validation engineer. I break things (or try to) for customers who come to us and want to deploy new solutions/do migrations/etc. and we're tasked with making sure the solution can be implemented properly, any bugs/caveats to watch out for, and all the other fun stuff

[NineEyeRon]

I also invented a machine that converts that annoying modem noise into classical music.

[loculus]

I work in the tech department for a large retailer (Fortune 100) as a data scientist. We build production applications for different parts of the business that leverage machine learning to improve upon their processes (greater automation, accuracy, new features). Mostly that means writing code for back-end work, database and data manipulation, understanding business problems and data sources, exploring data, and modeling. In terms of time spent, it's mostly the data prep and backend stuff rather than the data analysis and modeling, which is pretty common.

[kaiju_wars]

I love to fuck with computers, I love working on hardware.  I got a desktop support certification through University of Phoenix, and went to MSU for an IT degree, naturally.  

So obviously this all means that my career ended up being law enforcement.

[AthrunZ]

8 hours ago, kaiju_wars said:

I love to fuck with computers, I love working on hardware.  I got a desktop support certification through University of Phoenix, and went to MSU for an IT degree, naturally.  

So obviously this all means that my career ended up being law enforcement.

That's hilarious, yet somehow kind of awesome. Make sure you spread the tech love around a not necessarily tech field!

 

I studied pure chemistry with no engineering courses and ended up in an electrical engineering job (semiconductor manufacturing), where they somehow thought my complete lack of any EE experience made me a good hire.

Good thing they haven't caught on to this yet...

[Ja Krispie]

I work as a technician. I work on everything from ATM's, Self Checkouts, Printers, and networking (Fiber and Ethernet as a 3rd party tech for Ciena, Cisco, Veritas, Nutanix, Tintri, ATT, Comcast, and others)

 

So basically, something breaks. I fix it.

[AngryBeaver]

So if you know me you know I am pretty knowledgable with most of the IT space. I am in Cybersecurity these days and operate as a specialist/engineer. I also do/have done digital forensics, cyber hunting, cyber Intel, and red team as well.

 

I work for a fortune 10 or better company (if I get more specific you would know who it was). Being in my field, doing what I do, with the companies and entity's I work with/for means it is almost a necessity unfortunately.

 

Either way I enjoy these forums both at home and work lol.

[SpencerTech]

On 8/2/2019 at 10:04 PM, wojtepanik said:

Hey tech guys,

What do you do for living? Are you IT specialists? Contractors? Electricians ? Is there anything odd or intresting in your job?

I am working in small IT company, we manufacture VMS - video managment system, we build servers for cctv monitoring, for big, enterprise systems. If you have any question regarding CCTV, you can AMA. Also after hours, I am admin in small company.

I'm only f*cking 14 but I'm great at editing and graphic design/photoshop, aiming to be a UI Designer/Video Editor.