Your job….

I mostly enjoy my work - been an academic for 12 years or so. And yes, contrary to popular belief, we do actual 'work' ;-) The best part of my job is doing research and supervising (good!) grads students - they make it all worthwhile. I also enjoy getting my hands dirty coding interesting stuff (I'm a 'computer scientist') - sadly in between teaching and administration nonsense, opportunities are not as frequent as I'd like. Still, on the whole I enjoy myself!

Originally Posted by Menigal
Lots of computery jobs here. How very unexpected.

I'm always tempted to tell people I'm a necromancer, since technically I learn things from the remains of dead people (and more often animals), but I spend far more of my time doing boring data management.

Now you got me interested. May I ask what exactly you do?

Originally Posted by pibbur0x2a
Now you got me interested. May I ask what exactly you do?

I'm an osteoarchaeologist (guy what looks at bones), but unfortunately I don't get to actually do very much of that at the moment.

I started my own company many years ago. I didn't like bosses telling me what to do so I quit and now own my own successful business. Now every customer is my boss and I work more than I ever have in my life. I certainly showed them didn't I ???

I love my job at the planet Arium!

No really, I like my job a lot. Hours are good and programming VB.Net is great stuff. There's always something new to learn and always some crazy bug that can't POSSIBLY happen - except it is. Figuring out how those happen and fixing them really is fun. (Thank goodness we've got a support department. If accounting called up saying all the paychecks they just printed were for negative amounts, I would probably respond with something like "oh cool!!". That wouldn't go over so well. )

I wouldn't say I loved my job, though. If they stop paying me then I'm staying home and playing games, not coming in to my old job and asking if I could please donate some time.

P.S. Doing dishes?? For this single guy, that means taking the remaining dish out of the dishwasher, putting it away, and loading the dishwasher up with the dishes in the sink.

Wow everyone is retired or have an IT-job so far? except for the osteoarchaeologist which also appear to end up being IT-work… how unexpected

Originally Posted by vurt
Like Corwin, also retired (since 6-7 years i think, i've lost track). I can work if i want and still keep the pension, it's strange, but its Sweden

I hope to get to work as a 3D artist, prefarably for a RPG. I was on a project for some time but never recieved any payment, just a lot of BS claims to keep us there it seemed.

Hmmm, what kind of 3D-work are you best at? characters or landscape? or something else?

I tried to start my own company last year to develop some software. Now I'm out of money and back to prostituting myself in IT. Trying to get your project finished (and not succeeding) was interesting to experience. It raises the bar for stress tolerance to an entirely new level. I'll be back soon for more though!!

I'm work free (IE I don't have a job). I hate it.

Übereil

Originally Posted by GothicGothicness
Wow everyone is retired or have an IT-job so far? except for the osteoarchaeologist which also appear to end up being IT-work… how unexpected

Actually, I worked in IT before I got into archaeology, so it's becoming circular for me.

Wow everyone is retired or have an IT-job so far? except for the osteoarchaeologist which also appear to end up being IT-work… how unexpected.

So they haven't let you in on the secret yet? We're actually starting a sort of union for IT folks. All those arguments you see in the P&R forum are just there to throw management off the scent. In another 5 years, every company will have a "board of dweebs" that actually determines how much IT people get paid. Naturally, we will all be sitting on each others' board of dweebs so we will be able to scratch each others bac…. umm…. appreciate just how hard it is to find really *good* IT help and how terribly critical IT people are to a company.

P.S. Don't let the golden parachute hit you when you land! That whole "soft metal" thing is a load of hooy!!

Another IT guys here as well

I studied mathematics at uni but I am a computer programmer now and working in the financial industry for about 10 years.

Work is still interesting and fun but sometime I work crazy hours (like now, 10pm!). I am sort of being pushed into management to progress but its not my thing. So sometime I wonder what I should do…

Originally Posted by GothicGothicness
Hmmm, what kind of 3D-work are you best at? characters or landscape? or something else?

Anything environmental, trees, skies, water etc. These are some recent models from my FO:NV mod:

http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloa…1318542200.jpg
http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloa…1311834616.jpg
http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloa…1312599106.jpg

(or my youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Vurt72 )

Eventually i'm gonna try to broaden my competence with some architectural modelling.

Funny how many IT people we have here. I used to work as a painter (no, not the "artist" kind), i would have stood out it seems

I am a scientist. I'll soon be going up for tenure, so this is a very stressful time for me. At the core of it I love my work. It is what I always wanted to do, and long hardly dared dream I would achieve. Solving problems, finding new facts about how things work, analyzing data and discovering the "story" behind it is immensely satisfying. Plus I have a very good and supportive working environment.
Still there are some misgivings: from a certain level on, science is an insanely competitive occupation, and especially during the tenure track period, you feel under constant evaluation and held against standards set by the brightest minds of the present, where you almost can't help but feel a sense of inadequacy. The pressure ultimately also stifles risk-taking and creativity, I'm afraid. And in a job where working overtime in excess of 150% is considered par for the course (or rather: is simply expected) it ultimately seems wrong to get paid no more than a high-school teacher. Other workaholic professions, like upper management, at least get good money for it. Scienteist are incredibly stupid that way, because we love what we are doing…

So, do you think there is something about CRPGs in particular that makes them attractive to IT people? I noticed this for a while, but its really amazing how many of your are working in those fields.

So, do you think there is something about CRPGs in particular that makes them attractive to IT people? I noticed this for a while, but its really amazing how many of your are working in those fields.

I suppose it has something to do with what kind of people get into the IT business, and especially when we're talking people over 25-30. It was a very "nerdy" thing back in the day - just like RPGs were (I suppose they still are in some ways).

I think CRPGs are universally appealing, but like so many kinds of interests - it's also not very well understood by outsiders. IT people are probably less intimidated by exploring something so geekisk in nature.

Well, just a thought

I'm a final year student. I'm studying Electronic and Computer Engineering in the UK.
So no work yet for me. I did work for a big engineering firm a few years ago for a year.

Originally Posted by DArtagnan
I suppose it has something to do with what kind of people get into the IT business, and especially when we're talking people over 25-30. It was a very "nerdy" thing back in the day - just like RPGs were (I suppose they still are in some ways).

I think CRPGs are universally appealing, but like so many kinds of interests - it's also not very well understood by outsiders. IT people are probably less intimidated by exploring something so geekisk in nature.

Well, just a thought

The population here is people playing CRPGs AND posting about it on a dedicated forum. Even more geeky, methinks.

I'm a banker at a prestigious bank.

Originally Posted by Andhaira
I'm a banker at a prestigious bank.

Grab the pitchforks and torches boys we rooted one out!

I am teacher. Currently unemployed, but in a week or two's time, I'll start in a temp job untill Christmas. Hope that this will lead to a more permanent employment at this school.
I do love my job, though. I have enough freedom to teach the students (or kids etc) the subjects the way I want to teach them about say Social Studies, Danish, English or History etc. I just need to fullfill the state requirements for the subjects. And they're broad enough so that they don't tell how to teach, but what to teach e.g. for Social Studies we'll have to talk about expansion (boom) or stagnation (recession). How we do it, though, are entirely up to me as a teacher.

edit:
I also use IT in my line of work e.g. have students explain the three models for the welfare state, the anglo-saxon, the central-european, and the scandinavian, using a powerpoint presentation to do it. I also of course give the students assignments where they have to go on the internet to find the answers. It can be a lot of fun

Originally Posted by DArtagnan
I suppose it has something to do with what kind of people get into the IT business, and especially when we're talking people over 25-30. It was a very "nerdy" thing back in the day - just like RPGs were (I suppose they still are in some ways).

I think CRPGs are universally appealing, but like so many kinds of interests - it's also not very well understood by outsiders. IT people are probably less intimidated by exploring something so geekisk in nature.

Well, just a thought

I think that people working in IT or IT related jobs have more patience with RPG games as they are used to working long hours in front of computers. They are also more thinkers than trigger happy gamers and the computer is their work and entertainment medium.