What TT readers do for a living

My guess is that most TTers work in the High Tech industry, or are students, but I do not know, because I have not been able to make a TT event yet.

I am impressed by how many people can be online for so much of their day.
Does this mean that what you do for a living keeps you in front of a computer for the majority of the day?

I, for one, am a Book Editor, so I work from home, and therefore have a flexible schedule. That is my excuse anyway.

Share your stories!

Digital Cartographer. Aerial photos georeferenced into CAD systems then exported to cartographical applications.

Right now I'm grappling with a 200 year old map projection system based on the Frauenkirche in Munich.

I spend my day co-ordinating content for a dealer sales platform, as well as thinking up sales support measures and communicating these to the dealers.

This all means i spend a horrendous amunt of time either sitting in front of my pc, in pointless mettings or having pointless telephone conversations.

Geschäftsführer of a start-up CO2 laser company.

Software developer.

i spend my day reading TT and drinking coffee. But if anyone asks then i'm a computer programmer.

I spend my day staring at the Toytoen site - or so it seems.

At this very moment I have no job but, alright I'll announce it now for the first time, as of April 1st I will be working in the insurance industry again, underwriting and the like.
After almost three years of not working its going to be tough, and it'll mean I will be an infrequent contributor to these pages, so theres something to make you all happy, I guess.

Satellite installation engineer

Come on Grinner...We all know your nothing but a spaceman!!
Don't give us fancy names far an astronaut...you won't fool us!!

@OG Does that mean you are in Marketing?

Perhaps I should be careful around Sin.

I am a english teacher for a private company called Berlitz.

"Absatzmanagement"

make of that what you will

I buy, sell, and trade spores, molds, and fungi on the internet.

Communications Engineer

I build and Design Data/Voice Networks

Magic Mushrooms!!!

executive assistant/ in-house translator

EMEA Database Sales Manager...

actually I do nothing of the sort (Ghostbusters reference anyone?). Honestly, I mud-wrestle gangs of midgets for cash prizes.

Notary Public

Im disguised as a computer programmer, but what I actually do is steal resources in order to finance my plan of building an army of intelligent robots and take over the world.

I thought DW was a cowboy.

all together now...'Eueeewwwww'

Me - IT geek - for a small software consulting company - so not exciting

@ kitkat64,
, is that what you call Microsoft these days?

I think you're confused. I train monkey cowboys but that's for fun, not profit.

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Systems analyst for O2

@SiS

Uh, I think you have me confused with kiki68 - SHE's the MS chickie. I really do work for a small software consulting firm - only 125 people.

Surface and Chemical Engineer, currently testing and developing regenerative aircraft cabin air purification technologies and working on other such aircraft cabin environment thingybobs

CFD Project Engineer (Automotive and some Aeronautical)
But in my spare time Im working on building a time machine to bring me back to the 80`s. Ive already managed to get the specs for the flux capacitor worked out, so now all I need is a Delorean DMC 12 and a power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts.Anybody got any suggestions?

Are you serious or pulling my leg? I thought I was talking to you in GM's one night about Unterschließheim and Microsoft and you trying to choose a company car...
So that wasn't you?

@Maddul
DO what all time travellers do... Wait for a storm and consume lightning bolts.
Or use Nuclear Fusion, but as a side effect you'de end up cooking yourself into nothing.

@ChemicalBurn
Unfor. I still cant figure out how to predict where and when a lighting bolt will strike. But I working on that.
As for nuclear fusion, Im affraid the present tecnology is a bit too bulky. There is no way I can fit a Tokamak on a DMC 12.
As for nuclear fission, Im trying to bribe some some arabs into getting me a few kilos of weapons grade plutonium but the language is a big barrier.

You're a book editor!!! I'm a writer. Let's get together

The reality of being a writer is a little more boring than it sounds. My last book was a Computer Guide thingy... A bit like the Big Dummies guides but a bit more advanced. That was published last December and I am currently working on a Murder story, although this has no publisher. Once it is finished I will seek out an agent or a publisher which - if you don't know - is the hard bit.

Just to add some drama to this post I can tell you that I am on the last chapter. The villain has a hostage and only our hero can save the day, but he is a journalist and so he might not save the day. I mean if he did, where would the story be???

... About another 10,000 words to write.

BTW - I love my job.

beer-fairy

Espresso addicted SAP/ABAP Programmer oh sorry of course I mean a consultant for software development.

[quote]Ive already managed to get the specs for the flux capacitor worked out, so now all I need is a Delorean DMC 12 and a power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts.Anybody got any suggestions?[QUOTE]

Why?

Mustard Girl

I wonder what a mustard girl is? Is that anything like a cornflake girl? Anyway, I work as a database administrator for an American multinational company, but I'm thinking of branching out into freelance database development soon.

Slightly off topic but I noticed there is a Kit, a Kat, and a KitKat(64) on this board...coincidence? I think not, especially when you consider we are all in high-tech and apparently Kat and I are involved with databases.

Further off-topic...during my senior year of college I worked part time shelving books at the university library. There was a girl who worked in some special books section or something whom I always had goo-goo eyes for...never talked with her though.

Flash forward three years later and I'm at a bar in Atlanta and she's our waitress. I finally speak to her, explain how I know her, and introduce myself as "Kit." She says, "Hello, I'm Kat." Never saw her again...

@ Sleepless in Munich - you were definitely talking to kiki68 - she is one of my closest friends and works at Microsoft. I may have been there though. I'm blond, she's more brunette(and much prettier!), but we're both from Boston.

@ Kit, Kat, KitKat - too funny, I'm an IT person and work everyday with DB2

distance starer

Solutions Architect, well that's what my business cards say ! - I plan/design IT network connectivity for my company for connecting them together all over the world, and often installing, so configuring routers and firewalls then hand over so some sucker to support the mess I have just designed/installed.

Graphic Designer / Illustrator / Book & Page Layout

Freelance for now but looking for a 9 to 5er.

I write the software inside mobile phones. Theroetically I work on the low level layer1 software, but right now I'm working on my own intelligent dialer product.

add to this a mobile networks marketing man... and like just about 1/2 the people i meet around munich work with siemens

I'm an oral prophylactic!

otherwise known as a Dental Hygienist, or the toothbrush lady!

corporate stooge.

basically I contribute to the downfall of society by supporting an economic system that is unsustainable due to its inherent inequity and reliance on cheap labor instead of innovation as a profit driver.

What I really want is DW's job training cowboy-monkeys.

I work part-time from home as a webmaster for a university research project. I also go into Munich once a week to work for these guys, doing data-entry. Sort of. My husband and I also do freelance translating. Other than that I'm a stay-at-home mom, which gives me lots of time to hang out at the computer (but no time for a social life).

I serve coffee all day, which does not really go with bacon. Actually I only do that half the day, the other half I spend learning vocab, smoking cigarettes, ogling the girls that work in the airport, wishing I could waste time on the internet, pacing back and forth behind the counter, thinking of threads I could start on TT