Working 9 to 5

[veg-o-matic]

Okay, we're starting to get a good idea of what we look like, so it's time to take it to the next level:

What do we do to support our appliance habit--er, uhm--I mean what do we do for a living?

I'll start by confessing to being a former librarian who got roped into doing IT, so now I'm running the online catalogs for a major Eastern library system in addition to performing various networking duties.

Yeah, it's boring, I know, but I'm hoping we have some actors or models or International Business Kingpins out there.

Nosy little stinker, ain't I?

 

[foraloysius]

I work at a center for work and income as an advisor as it is called nowadays. Perhaps it is clearer when I say that I work at the employment office which is a semi-government institution. People come over to us to register as unemployed and applie for social benefits. Lots of challenges, but also a very stressful job.

 

[roto204]

Support new machines so I can get old ones

I work for a school district IT department, and just got promoted from being a school site technician.

Yay! More appliances to come! :-D

 

[scott55405]

I am a law firm word processor.

 

[chachp]

I lead a computer help desk. Busy place, someone always doing something stupid to their computer! LOL

 

[brisnat81]

Network administrator for a Manufacturing company

Electrical Enclosures, Racks and Cabinets from B&R

Electrical enclosures, server racks and cabinets, plastic boxes, climate control systems and switchboard building products from B&R Enclosures.

www.brenclosures.com.au

 

[jdinstl]

I'm a Computer Programmer for an investment firm.

Veg, back in my consulting days, I worked for an outfit here named DRA. These days, they've been bought out by Sirsi. But I learned about MARC records, OPAC's and all kinds of cool library stuff. DRA was probably one of my favorite gigs, and it gave me a very healthy respect for Library Science.

John

 

[tolivac]

Work as a broadcast-transmitter operations engineer at a govt shortwave broadcast plant.Broadcast shows to people in Cuba,Africa,and South America.Used to work at their studio plant in Wash DC.

 

[parunner58]

WOW, there are alot of IT people here. I am the email Administrator for Binney & Smith, the People who make Crayola Crayons and Silly Putty we are a subsidiary of Hallmark Cards. We use Lotus Notes for our email software. I have been here for 20 years and have done everything from being a mainframe computer operator to PC Support manager and if a person can break a computer I have seen it all.

 

[neptuneguy27]

I work as a Tech Adviser for a company that makes caulks, sealants, adhesives and other repair products. Who would have thought that caulk needed technical assistance? But believe you me, there is a demand for it.

 

[chachp]

Hey Parunner58,

I was an Email admin for years. I supported a GroupWise environment up until v4.0. We started with Wordperfect Office v2.0 in 1988. We then merged with a company that was a Notes shop so I was involved in putting in a GroupWise/Notes gateway. That seems like a lifetime ago. 23 years with my company. I'm another old fart.

 

[swestoyz]

The Grainger Man

I'll be the first to admit that I don't work in IT. I work for Grainger Industrial Supply - in their Parts and Sourcing dept. It is very hard to explain what it is I do, so it is easier to say I sit at a desk (and deal with Lotus Notes/SAP!! argh!) and fill out TPS Reports.

Ben

 

[DADoES]

Been with the local movie theater for almost 21 years (April 1984). Done everything from cleaning the auditoriums and mopping up barf to dealing with pissed-off customers to running the films to working the books . . . which is the position I've been at for the past 6 years.

Also since November 1998, so-called general manager and general-tech-person of a small local ISP -- help desk, keeping servers running, dealing with the E-VILE teleco, coordinating customer billing, yada yada. Sorry to throw in the IT-type thing again. Took a call today with a customer who had installed an AOL trial CD which got his dial-up connection completely out-of-sorts, and he didn't even have a clue how to use Add/Remove Programs.

 

[westie2]

IT here Programer Analyst, system administrator, software specialist. Have been a programmer from 1973 first for oil research now for a poultry company.

 

[veg-o-matic]

Yow! We're a bunch of geeks!

Oh come on--we can't all be a bunch of computer nerds! Someone has to be a doctor or lawyer or Captain of Industry.

Nathan: I really like some of those cabinets of yours. We have primarily Vero cabinets for networking stuff and while they were okay at the beginning, they're WAY too small now. Might be a little expensive for us to get 'em from Australia, though!

John: Small world! SIRSI was one of the automation vendors we considered when we last did vendor selection--a time-consuming, ugly project. I am by no means a MARC expert, but our head cataloger thinks I retain all the stuff she tells me. She is SO wrong! Still, I have to retain some of it, even though I've spent years avoiding the whole MARC thing.

Ralph: We have two Help Desks: one for staff, one for the paying customers (we're an ISP). Every time you think you've heard it all, something new comes up. My personal favorite comment from a HD guy was "No sir, the sound of frying eggs coming from your computer is generally not a good sign."

 

[DADoES]

The BF is not a CN if that is of any consolation, they sometimes mystify and cause him confusion.

 

[brisnat81]

Data Cabinets

Hi Bob,

What we sell is pretty unique, the server/data cabinets can be reconfigered once installed to have different rack depths. The current range of cabinets just won an Australian Design Award.

The other part of what we do is in Partnership with Hager Germany.

We are the Aust distributor for their circuit breakers, automation systems and so forth.

There are 4 IT staff at work, we have 2 factories in 2 different states and 7 offices around Australia, its a busy place to be.

I'm supposed to be a general all hands on kinda guy, but in a addition I manage network security and MS Exchange.

We've just implemented Commvault for backup and data management and so far we're very impressed, but its meant we've had to start finding Terabytes of nearline storage.

Nathan

 

[foraloysius]

Hey, I'm not a CN either! My work is basically to get unemployed people back to work.

 

[ironrite]

Ok, I do something different, I find people that don't want to be found! It's called Skiptracing.