I'm a college student with the prestigeous job of sitting at the desk of one of the dorms two days a week (M & F). I'm usualy not doing anything except answering the phone occasionaly and letting people into their rooms when they lock themselves out. So I'm basicly being paid minimum wage to sit here and read the board : )

As if it is any supprise, I'm a CS major.

Reminds me of a movie in the 70's where a college football star who needed a job was paid to watch the sprinklers turn on and off...

I run my own IT consultancy in the West Midlands (no, I don't have a Brummie accent) and very rarely get time to log on to post anything. In fact, I think this is my first post in a couple of years.

In my previous life (when I bought the Empeg and when I posted here a little more often), I was a systems manager for a Swiss bank in Zurich. Once we got the machines set up, they just kept running (VMS, of course), so we had loads of time to do anything and everything that wasn't work related.

Nick.

PS - must change my sig. The Empeg's running fine now, but I've got engine whine so I need to check the wiring.

Dayton and Springfield Ohio area

Hey! My parents are from Springfield, OH!!!

I've held a smattering of positions, starting in the architectural field and traversing across the fields of graphic design, web design, and publishing. I currently work for the same company as Meatballman and Russmeister, although I reside in a different state.

although I reside in a different state

Hopefully not too much longer. It'll be great to have you here for more frequent LAN parties.

Not strictly a geek, I'm technical director for a small publishing consultancy based in London, although I work a lot in Edinburgh and am currently sitting in the Scotch Malt Whiskey Society enjoying a few drams and deciding it's far to late to work. Hence my very sporadic posting - always hear to read though...

Small world I don't know my way around there much, just know how to get to the 3 stores I service. They do have a great classic car dealership there.

Now I now what ISF stands for! Too bad you live in another country and are so far away from Washington State. I'm just about to trade my Barco 808 in on a NEC XG135LC and would like to get it calibrated.

I probably won't be making it up there to far northwest Texas any time soon! However if you go here, click on "ISF-trained dealers with calibration equipment" and then select your state, you'll get a list of folks who might be able to help you. I don't know how far they've gotten with updating the database, so there may be a few outdated listings.

Thanks Milton!

My wife graduated from Wittenberg University in Springfield. I used to live in Cedarville, but now live in Columbus.

I'm the one-man tech department for a small research institute at a large university. I work too darn slow and inefficiently to ever take a break, which is why I unfortunately never post during the day. Probably have checked the BBS during work all of twice in the year and a half since I joined; during upload crisis that were really weighing on my mind.

But I DO hang out on the BBS while eating dinner (at my computer) at least one night a week. I get some quality time in with the crew... eventually.

Chief Operating Officer of a government program tasked with the commercialization of law enforcement and corrections technologies.

My cousin works in law enforcement and municipal software. Has for quite a while.

I work in the lumber industry. I design systems that move tons of mass at very high accelerations (1000"/sec/sec) and fairly high velocities and position it to within a few thousandths of an inch.

Just the web developer/webmaster for an online tools suite for an intranet here at the U.S. Dept. of State. I mainly work with perl and JSP on HP-UX, but my workstation has to be windows (policy!). Being a contracter is OK, but I'm bored of IT in general. I do my more fullfilling stuff away from work.

I'd like to get into circuit design like I studied for at Virginia Tech (EE), but the short commute, nice people, god status, and easy money make it difficult to break away. Not to mention, starting at the bottom again with no experience in the field is not terribly appealing.

I spend plenty of time on the net when there is no release coming up, and nobody really cares as long as I'm not looking at pron or downloading a bunch of stuff.

BTW, My avatar is just an old pic from my college days - I do have short hair and look somewhat presentable now

I've been trying all week to come up with a reply for this thread and I can't, my jobs involves so many other sub jobs that the details are just mind numbing! So here is a brief summary of the main stuff I do.

I work in the IT industry for company that make big storage systems (big as in 70TB), for whom I work on the Mfg side of the house. On a day to day bases I'm responsible for Mfg concerns with the laptops that are attached to these systems. This means all the software loaded as part of the Mfg process (used for testing) - which must all get done with the click of a mouse button or less (to keep it simple for the people who install it - think of have some really complex selection of software installed with the click of a button) and the removal of said software before shipping - can't ship software XX to the Field, we don't have a license for that. This is achieved though lots of smoke and mirrors, aka WISE & AutoIt scripts and lots of use of the command line, long live the command line.

Of course this means that as soon as there is a problem with any thing related to the laptop I get the call, usually this should just involves a quick bit of FA and a hand off - but as we all know people suffer from denial and don't accept that it their code or hardware that is to fault. Fortunately my boss & director trust me and my opinions enough to go to bat for me - though I have found it quicker to take care of some things through back channels. Of course this has a down side, my bosses see me as some "can do" type of guy and frequently drop me in the middle as stuff that is not working and needs to be up and running yesterday. The most recent was a high level FA problem from the Field a system had a "Thermal Event" and they needed to know why the laptop didn't call home - in this case the Field had sent us the wrong laptop .

And that's just the main part of my job, I also end up back stopping our departments network/systems admin, he does not have a fun job as our companies IS department will have nothing to do with our group - we won't play by their rules! And with good reason, things in our world change way too quickly. I could go on....but my work involves alot of PC time and often I hitting the web looking up registry setting to abuse Windows in some new way .

PS If anyone is ever looking for some looking for some help with a WISE script, or would like to package up their program let me know, I'd be happy to help. And if your looking to hire a WISE scripter....

Anybody else care to contribute?

After some time as an RN, research project coordinator, epidemiologist, systems analyst, consultant and network engineer, I am now a lead computer person for a research-oriented department at a large public university. Mostly (for now!) Windows desktops but 99% Linux in the core (anybody wanna swap OpenMosix stories?) My role is 60 percent "do stuff" and 40 percent PHB (there being no other PHB to take up the slack!).

At the tender age of 51, I was remarkably lucky when my previously-filed resume popped up in their search based on some keywords. My phone wasn't exactly ringing off the hook. In the irony department, it is remarkable that during my recent 3 years of private sector employment (with Lucent) I managed to post to the BBS all the time but now that I am a shiftless public employee I am reduced to posting on Friday nights! (this may change. The first two months on this job were the busiest of my employed life, but I can see a future where I will do things like go to lunch and post to a BBS!)

I work for a company called Portables Plus who basically sell laptops, I used to work in the service dept repairing laptops from replacing faulty parts to mainboard board level repairs.. I got bored of it quickly so we started a Wireless Solutions division about 2 years ago where I was a head techie in all things wireless.
Now I am wireless technical manager of the division, and wireless security specialist, we consult, plan, survey, procure and install wireless LAN’s, hotspots, point to point links etc....
I enjoy it a lot especially with all the new toys I can purchase... for "development and testing"
I also admin our internal servers...

I read the board when i get time, regrettably not posting much due to time..

Jaidev

My wife graduated from Wittenberg University in Springfield

I remember back in the 80's when ABC sports aired a Wittenberg football game for some strange reason. My mom was all giddy about Springfield being on national TV. (We lived in AZ at the time.)

Anybody else care to contribute?

I'm a medical researcher in Upstate New York. I split my time between medical research at a major medical college and my own business I'm starting at a college business incubator. I'm trying to start a small biotech firm focused upon protein-based drug development using minimal funds (my own) to develop my first few products. Definitely a challenge considering I'm my only employee so far . But I love doing it, it keeps me busy and most important out of trouble. Luckily I have access to the internet at both locations and try my best to check in as often as possible. The diversity and interests of people in this forum keep me coming back. I've learned quite a bit and I must admit it's been something of an addiction to check in to see what's happening even if I don't have time to get in all the good threads

Traffic manager at a group of radio stations in Interior Alaska.

Someone asked me to elaborate a bit on that, so here is a paste from the Windows clipboard of what I told him:

Putting a program log together is fun...

I have over 100 different product conflict categories to keep seperated, I have to ensure horizontal and vertical rotation of the commercials (make sure a client's commercials don't always air in the 10am and 2pm (for example) hours every Tuesday) and I have to ensure that a client's commercials have more or less even distribution through the dayparts. I am responsible for four radio stations' program logs every day, 12 of them on Fridays. So today I'll deal with about 3,000 commercials (4 stations, three days worth).

Next, I have to make sure that the appropriate copy gets played for each of those spots. I might have copy rotations for a client involving a dozen different commercials, some of them allowed to air on certain days of the week, some of them not, some of them allowed in certain dayparts, some of them not, and some of them in differing percentages from the other spots in the rotation. Figure 60 or 70 different clients playing on average 4--5 commercials each on *each* of the four stations each day.

Then on Monday I'll have to make sure that all 3,000 of the commercials did indeed air on the days and times they were supposed to run, airing the copy they were supposed to air. At the end of the month, I'll have to verify that each client's billiing does indeed match up with his contract before the invoices are printed and mailed out.

Does this give any insight as to why I am an anal personality? :-)

Oh... I almost forgot the balancing act of sales vs inventory. There is a fixed amount of inventory (both time and units) available, and some of the stations are usually over-sold. So now I have to prioritize which commercials actually get on the air, based on how likely is it that the commercial can be moved to another day. Sometimes I can be over-sold on time and still have units available; other days I can be over-sold on units and still have time available. (A commercial break is defined as being full when it has either 5 commercials in it, or 3.5 minutes in it, *whichever occurs first*. So... :30 spots, :60 spots, expensive spots, cheap spots, spots from advertising agencies, spots from local sales, there are probably a dozen variables that determine whether I can or cannot place a commercial on the log.

A right-brain individual who is intuitive, creative, spontaneous, artistic -- absolutely *cannot* do radio traffic. I'll post a picture on the bbs later today in the "pictures of your office" thread and you'll see what kind of environment the person who can do traffic lives in.

tanstaafl.

"My other unix box is a car stereo"

To have that emboradried on a case should be trivial. The hard parts are finding a shop and maybe getting a case.

To get back on topic. I'm a Mechanical Designer.

Glenn