quit my job last month, worked in HR department for a year or so; (international assignments) we were sending our employees to different countries and companies basically.
quit it because i will be spending a semester in shanghai, im still studying at uni.
I used to study IT in high school though
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I am an illegal alien who stowed away on a space battleship only to end up on earth, a planet much less cultured than mine own.
You are all numbskulls, I have low esteem for you all.
Sadly you do not have the technology for me to return home, so I'm forced to live out the rest of my (approximately) 281 earth years in agony.
(I do hope that there is a small chance your brains will develop enough to evolve into a hive-mind whereby you will have the intellectual capacity to boldly journey into space, and hence I can stowaway again.)
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I work in a supermarket.
On my free time I play drums. I've done some music videos, EPs and a bunch of gigs with four bands.
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that's awesome! I'm a guitarist, but I've always dreamt about playing drums =P
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Studied translation and worked as a freelancer for about 5 years, mainly on IT and marketing texts. I was translating help pages/manuals from Microsoft, Sony, Oracle etc. Last year I relocated, now I'm studying myself to start working in IT or data science. The more I read, the more I realize there is tons to learn.
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Been working in the game industry for past 3 years. As a college drop out I had to start at the bottom so I spent the first year as a customer support rep, later moving onto community management. Right now I am doing video production (all in the same company) and find it really fun so I am probably going to stick with it though I might want to try to tackle an actual game development sometime in the future.
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I work in a railroad company. I prepare documents for trains, maneuver them in the stations, and drive them (still need to complete my training in order to drive on my own).
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Can I trade places with you for a day? I drove semi for 20 years, always wanted to try the railroad :)
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Uhm, well, first I need to get the truck driving licence, but I don't really want to study anymore after the 1000-hours course for the train.
And, of course, you would need to do that, too! :P
Maybe it's better if we arranged a couple days together :D
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Sounds great :) 1,000 hours of training? Really? Wow I guess they're pretty serious. Thats a good thing though, Im just amazed at the amount of hours.
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1000 hours in the classroom, then 100-120 drives (and you don't get to drive every day, at this rate it may take up to one year). The classroom part has been a pain in the arse.
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That is really impressive, you've deffinately put the work into obtaining your goal :)
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thanks a lot for the giveaways and the thread =P
I find it always hard to describe what I do for a living, I do many things!
I've got a ph.d in history (top marks, from the bologna university, 5 years + published essays) but I work as a genealogist and middle-ages historian only "freelance", my "real" jobs are related to managing rents and houses and running some weird automatic stores called industrial laundries in which I had to learn how to be a plumber (please no Mario jokes, even if I'm italian i've got blond hair and green eyes, I don't look like mario at all XD), and other things too, by the way at the high school I got my diploma as accountant with specialization in informatics (so nothing related to my two academical degrees, that's why I don't know a single word of latin or greek and I specialized in the northern italian late middle ages and in genealogy xD)
I also work with lots of ukrainian and polish guys and girls (well, adults most of them) for other reasons too and that's why I've been sucked into zamosc and lviv's world (yeah i'm not that young anymore xD) =P
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well, I should definitely watch some Indian Jones movies.. I saw 2-3 of them in the '90s but I don't remember anything! XD Anyways genealogy and history are two awesome topics, and I really loved every exam and every lesson I took at the university, it's been some long years, but rewarding and extremely interesting.. fortunately, here in Italy we have some of the best historians, scholars and literates in the world.. although we definitely can't say the same about politicians, entrepreneurs and such xD
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that goes the same for the professor that followed my ph.d thesis and many others, but it takes sooo much work, time, passion.. i've got too many different interests, I really can't think of myself as a teacher or a full time historian =P you definitely can work in Italy in literary, historic, archaeological etc. fields but it takes definitely too many things that I don't possess.. i'm really happy for him since it's for sure one of the best jobs in the world! =)
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that's great! =) I spent almost 2 years for my thesis and I worked on documents from Bologna only, mostly chronicles (most of them never published or badly published in the XIX century by the first northern italian historians) and other documents since we had lots of different governments =P
well, you've got to have a huge passion and be a patient and smart guy xD
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yeah, that's not me. But I was writing an article on the history of insurance, and made references to Hammurabi's Code (1800 bc), Justinian Didacts (400 AD), Genoan and Venetian Decrees (1200s), the sea laws of Visby (1350), Dutch annuity calculations (1650s), and English Mortality Tables (1690s).
Turns out, life expectancy has been pretty constants from the roman era through to the second world war. It's only in the last few decades that people have genuinely been living longer.
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Worked in IT for over 20 years, then got sick and was let go as a result. Been on temporary disability for a while, now in the stupid spot where I am too sick to work, yet not sick enough to get permanent disability. Yay me. So now I'm a stay-at-home parent.
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i was a tremorgames wageslave idling coins 24/7 and making a pretty nice profit out of it (people where jealous i made almost $2 per day!), but they went bankrupt because they wasted all the precious coins in parties and drinks.
now i work hard at gamehag, filling surveys and complaining when i don't get paid, because this is a serious job and if something happens i'm gonna call the european union and put the admins in jail ^^
i also idle cards from steamgifts wins and make like 40 cents per week. soon i will able to afford a dual rtx 2080ti set up to idle even more stuff and play 1990 games at 288fps.
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Trying to get rid of Agoraphobia after more than a decade. Had to drop out mid-university.
Doing small freelance job atm, but I can't live off it alone, so I'm looking for some way to find a job that makes me happy and allow me to become independent.
Other than that, nothing makes me happy anymore.
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you'll get through it, it's always possible to find a way and get over everything.. I've been suffering from agoraphobia, self-injury addiction, major depressive disorder and such since I was 14-15 and I managed through so many years of therapy, meditation, trials-and-errors, get-aways, drugs.. and most of all, taking care of myself in every possible way.. to get rid of agoraphobia and panic attacks - it seemed something like a mirage, impossible to reach when I was in the middle of them, but I managed to overcome everything, no more lorazepam needed to do so many things starting from eating outside my home and talking with others.. keep on searching for help and do your best, you'll definitely defeat everything.. it's true that depression, if like me you've had it for 10, 15+ years, in some ways never disappears totally, but you'll have all the weapons to fight it and they will be more and more effective to the point that you'll simply drop the depression off and do what you want =) stay strong mate
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Appreciate your words man. I hope I'll be like you someday.
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that's always a great thing to do, be it paid or not =P
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Thanks for offering your help with blue screens!
Fingers crossed we don't need it!
I am just trying to survive in a difficult situation.
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I done a few jobs in life, always have moved up the chain so far as well. Used to be, once I moved up as far as I can go or a better sounding job came along, I’d jump ship and move on.
I got a degree in Programmer Analysts, Networking, Hardware Troubleshooting, and server Administration for Windows, Unix/Linux, and Novel Netware OS’s.
I have worked as a Network Administrator Assistant for a while till I moved back to my home town. I did a summer job building and fixing computers for schools. Then I opt for more money and something more stable and went to work for a pretty big retail store, managing there warehouse and shipping till the lay offs started happening. I ended getting more responsibilities at that point and taking on other positions then just the warehouse for the same pay. By the 5th year the cuts to employees hours started and a few of us decided that it was time to move on as things will only get worst. So I quit, (that store only has 3 employees now compared to the 11 it had). I then went to work for a trucking company that would get sub contracts by other trucking and courier companies. Pay was a bit better but nowhere near standards for a trucking company, hours were 14 - 16 hours a day and work load wasn’t worth what you were making. I won’t lie, I liked the the job even though it was paying on the low side for a trucking company and I moved up quick within it. But it a very rushy job that took up 14 - 16 hours 5 days a week for little benefits. Guess I liked the driving, metting people, and the rush from doing the tight deadlines. But family life started to suffer after a couple of years of doing it. So I left for a better paying job that’s all night shifts doing night watchman and custodian work. The shifts are 12 hours long but you work 7 days and off 7 days in a two week period. So you still make a 2 week paycheck just in one week worth of time and get plenty of family time as well. I been there now for about 4 years, benefits are good, pay is double what I was making before and less hours of work. Like any job it does have it’s bad sides to it, but for now I’m gonna keep at it. For how long, I don’t know; I have no plans in the job field at the moment, it just take it as it comes.
So in my free time, I like to spend time with my better half, go on trips, camping, fishing, off-roading, cabin. I also still enjoy programming, tinkering with computers and hardware, and of course gaming. I’m hoping to start a new and long over do PC build this year if my tax return is good.
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I don't do anything for a living. Not anymore. I'm getting a disability pension (despite my young age). Long story.
Anyway, before that I was working as Security for some time.
Guarding parking lots, patrolling hallways... and trying to stay awake in the countless hours inbetween where I had to watch monitors with nothing happening on them.
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I am officially a Project Delivery Manager. But that's essentially meaningless, because I don't usually work on projects and I don't manage anything or anyone. The company I work for just likes inflated titles.
My job is essentially human resources troubleshooting. When something doesn't work right, or when there are questions about how to do something, or when certain types of human resources requests come in that are outside normal boundaries... I get involved.
I fell into this completely by accident way back in 2004... and realized pretty quickly that I loved it, and that it was perfect for my skill set. I've been doing it ever since.
I haven't had a BSOD in years, but if I get one in the future, I know who to call!
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Hi Guys,
Just wanted to introduce myself properly, I've been a SG User for a few Years and I haven't got the opportunity yet to start a discussion. I guess, better later than never I suppose.
I work in IT for 20 years, been an analyst and worked in support for the most time. @ the moment I do plenty of Debugging Windows OS's and sort Performance Issues for big companies as clients. Work 100% from home, so work life balance is great. Caveats would be probably the stress. It can be hectic at times dealing with several accounts.
What I like the most is Debugging and Sysinternals, grown pretty good in troubleshooting BSOD (BLue Screen of Death) issues and reviewing memory dumps.
If you have a blue screen on your computer and you need someone to look @ it, don't be shy :P
Now that I took the time to introduce myself, I encourage you to do the same?
Anyone working in IT in Steamgifts as well?
Care to share your experience?
GIbs:
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/uLaCF/aaero
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/gtteB/bleed-2
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