tayyare wrote:

Now I'm a production manager in my last company (two years already?) which produces pistols and sporting rifles. There is still 10 years to go for retirement, though.

Not MKEK, then?

gdjacobs wrote:

tayyare wrote:

Now I'm a production manager in my last company (two years already?) which produces pistols and sporting rifles. There is still 10 years to go for retirement, though.

Not MKEK, then?

No, mine is a private venture, MKEK is state owned.

I do tests automation (mostly for Windows and Linux drivers), so I'm an IT guy too, but that's my second job. Earlier I used to do some DTP and photo editing for a small publishing company, for a few years. It was fun but I always wanted to have an IT job.

I work in the video games industry, for 8 years now.
In my personal time I do a little programming, film editing, and lots of tinkering with old sound cards.

At a computer service 🤣 Still a student 😀

I'm a deadbeat IRL, still live with my parents, mentally unfit to handle even a simple job.

I used to help people in Unreal with UnrealScript related tasks and make original music for maps but that's all dead and done. Too hopelessly depressed to do anything productive and I'm just counting the days off now.

bjt wrote:

Games programmer, (over?) specialising in graphics & performance tuning, although I'll write gameplay code if needed.
Been doing it for over 10 years now at various companies. I often think I should have a plan B, but luckily people still buy new games 😀

What platforms? Any games we'd know?

I should have a plan B too - surely I can't sit at a desk, coding and writing SQL statements until I'm 65 (I'm 38). I'll give it a red hot go but I suspect that the tech world will pass me by at some point.

I'm a doctoral engineering student. I have absolutely no desire to work on industries, but I love teaching, so the obvious plan for me is to become a professor. I might be able to get a job as a temporary professor at the university I attend to, and although there are plenty of people also trying to get that job, I believe my chances are pretty good 😀

badmojo wrote:

What platforms? Any games we'd know?

I should have a plan B too - surely I can't sit at a desk, coding and writing SQL statements until I'm 65 (I'm 38). I'll give it a red hot go but I suspect that the tech world will pass me by at some point.

Mainly Playstation with a bit of PC and XBox. I would name some titles but not sure I want to give up my Vogons anonymity just yet 🤣

I'm a similar age to you and think the same about working in this job till 65. Only so many coders can go on to become tech directors, and not sure I fancy that anyway. Consultancy/freelance is probably the best option. Or something completely different, but that's not so easy with kids and a mortgage. Not complaining mind, I am lucky to work in a field where there are interesting problems to solve and the hours still pass quickly.

bjt wrote:

Mainly Playstation with a bit of PC and XBox. I would name some titles but not sure I want to give up my Vogons anonymity just yet 🤣

I'm a similar age to you and think the same about working in this job till 65. Only so many coders can go on to become tech directors, and not sure I fancy that anyway. Consultancy/freelance is probably the best option. Or something completely different, but that's not so easy with kids and a mortgage. Not complaining mind, I am lucky to work in a field where there are interesting problems to solve and the hours still pass quickly.

Anonymity is good 🤣

Yeah I’ve tried the management thing and it’s not for me; logic problems I like, people problems are beyond me. I have the kids and mortgage thing going too so retraining and taking a pay cut wouldn’t be an easy thing, but I have zero ideas about career alternatives anyway.

At the end of the day I’ll probably just go with the flow and hope for the best – it’s worked OK for me so far!

Unlike most people on such sites I'm not working in the I.T. I'm an artist - a photographer... I work in a museum - MAMM/MDF - Moscow House of Photography. ( http://www.mamm-mdf.ru/ ). Before that I was working as a freelancer photographer in the Moscow bureau of the New York Times in the mid 2000's and for some time gained money as a wedding photographer...

Why I collect and use all these old computers ? - It's my philosophy - the ages must not exclude one another... - I'm not against the future to come, but I don want the past to fade away - I still use tape cassette players, mechanical watch, in photography I prefer film to digital cameras (even tried to make pictures on a 1930's Leica camera few days ago)... And in my childhood I was impressed by the computers - which seamed to be a miracle in the late 1980', and early 1990s... In late 80's we had at home an Amstrad PCW 8512 and KAypro10 machines an also in my childhood I had a video tape with the movie "War Games"... So once in the autumn of 2006 I was in one of my friends place and they were about to throw away to junk a 486 notebook they found in the attics - so I asked them to give it to me and it was the first item in my "classic computers" collection. I realised then, that many of things I dreamed of, very expensive then, now can be afforded by a bottle if Italian Wine or a chocolate cake and are just waiting in somebody's attics or garage)

All of my computers - I don't take them as something ancient - I use and regard them as if they are new snd actual and as if it's 80's or mid 90's now... I use them as a mental "time machine" If you've read a novel about time travel by Jack Finney - the "Time and Again" - you'll understand my philosophy...

I work in manufacturing in an overpaid cleaning/quality control role, Things are looking up especially with the drop in the $AUD and chinese demand for Australian food products.

I am currently a professional slacker, however I am considering a transition to small time scammer.

Awesomme guys. Really a lot of jobs that I think that I wanted to do if I could. Wich is allmost impossible for me to do.
(more on that later)

After the first basic school, 10'th grade, I went out and started to work 3 months as a sort of every-kind-of-small-job handyman, at my mums workplace. It was like in 1992 or something. I would clean all the companies cars inside, and wash them on the outside.
Then I studied basic water/piping/electronic's/stuff-like-that at the local school. Just the basic stuff.
After that I began study computer-hardware-software science/repair stuff, were we learned (or for my part should) C++ programming, Unix server's, hardware repair and stuff like that. Like the big non-programmer education at that point.
Yeah... Did not went well... So I studied the the basic modules of cheramic/pottery, and when that did not work out, I left the town and moved back to my parent's for a minth or two. Searching for a job. Then I became a job, at the local factory, that produced exaust pipes and muffler's and dampers for cars and truck. And after that, I began to study the two years of high school aimed at adult's. Was like in 1997 to 1999.
After that I began to work at this mailorder company, wich shipped covers for nokia's and spareparts for moped's, and after that I began to study pedagogue at a nearby towns school. Yeah... That did not end well eighter. So I began to search for a job, and after one year, I moved to Copenhagen.
Began to study this computer thing again, hoping it would be easier, I was wrong. So I took a job in 2004 to 2006, were I worked at this computer shop.
We builded computers from scratch after what the customer needed, I repaired them, I did support on phone and support through mail. Did like 12 to 16 computers a day, responding to all phone support untill midday, and did all the email support on my own. Yeah... Even repaired one or two a day.
I was fired, because he had not enough money to pay me. And so I began as a mail-man. Delivering mail in Copenhagen in march of 2006.
I stopped with that in 2007, and moved away from copenhagen, and began work at the same company. Just sorting packages instead in the nighttime.
Was injured, and fired within 3 months for "incompetency", and began to work small jobs. Working as substetude at various places. Found a job at a gourmet restaurant, were I was like the "octopus" of everything. Washing, setting tables, taking out garbage and stuff like that.
Did not hang around much longer than under a year. And moved up north to the northern part of the country. Were I had the rollercoaster of my life, from 2008 to now. Had various small job's, eventually did a complete education. Webprogrammer. And went don't with depression and felt like 100% burned out.
Before I finished my education, I left the mother of my children in order to not begin making me her enemy and her my enemy. For the sake of our children. And behold.... I finished my education, and only because I was single and lived on my own. Not easy taking a big educatrion, with only time home, between 11pm and bedtime, when one had been up since 6am. Yeah...... Advice: Don't have children before finishing education.

Now... The part I saved for the last.
At this moment I am retired before time. Meaning... I have gotten this diagnose, and yeah... Having issues after this mental breakdown.
Bad sleeping habbit. (cant feel sleepy) allmost no sex drive (yay, more energy for computers), hungerlessness, bad short term memory (if it's about something that I have no interrest in), a million thoughts on everyday stuff that I did not accomplise that just won't stop when I go to bed. No energy at all.
Sometimes I feel like having no energy for anything, and when I have done something like had to visit someone, I feel tired the next half a week.
Allways had this thing of hating a big crowd. Lucky me... It's nothing compared to other people. It's only atypical aspie.
Well. That's what the one who gave me the diagnose say's. No wonder I have never ever worked more than 1 and a half year a each job position. It has allways been like I have had too many days at home, after reporting in sick (faking, to protect my self). At least once a week, twice if it had been just a little stressfull at the work. Allways enjoyed working, so it was indeed something that was not lazynes. Like I was running from something to save myself of something. Yeahh... When the shit was hitting the fan, I had allready left that building for good.
(That computer-job excluded)

I was born with this shit, and I am going to the grave with this shit. No cure, no medicine can help. Yay me!!!! At least I am not born without the capacity to show love or act non-ego centric. Have learned my own tools to handle this kind of thing. Well... If I had the diagnose at the age of 16, I would not be so well. Because I would then have lived on a institution, and that would actually have left me worse off. The price to pay for this, is 39 years without any help.

So yeah... This is why I am so much on, here on Vogons. Looking at the bright side of thing's. I am one of those that are alowed to make jokes on aspergers syndrome. Because I have the diagnose... 🤣 🤣

"There is nothing in life that are so bad, that it's not good for anything" (old danish saying)

i repair computers since 1999, full time job

i love my job but the worst part are the clients. I end december burnt out 😵 and i take vacations from christmas to the end of January just to not hear my 2 cellphones

I'm a doctor - well, medical resident. I'll be a full-fledged doctor in a few years.

DracoNihil wrote:

I'm a deadbeat IRL, still live with my parents, mentally unfit to handle even a simple job.

I used to help people in Unreal with UnrealScript related tasks and make original music for maps but that's all dead and done. Too hopelessly depressed to do anything productive and I'm just counting the days off now.

I've been through a similar state of mind some years ago. It gets worse when you can't leave the inner circle of bad thoughts. In my case I've managed to free myself from it by doing the opposite of what I'd normally do on a daily basis: being more socially active, hanging around with friends and tinkering with old hobbies helped a lot.

Hope you recover from it swiftly.

Snayperskaya wrote:

Hope you recover from it swiftly.

Well I'm going to see a professional about my situation, hopefully it goes somewhere then.

Private_Ops wrote:

I'm a Conductor for a class 1 railroad (Norfolk Southern).

I enjoy my job (I'm a train nut aside from having an interest in computers).

Nice. I'm somewhat into rail based transport too. 😀

I'm employed at a tram workshop as an electrician. Sometimes I get to drive the trams, like getting defective tram's back to the depot/workshop or for test driving them.

For the last 21 years I've been into computers as a hobby (building, troubleshooting, overclocking, gaming, virtualization, Linux).

I'm an accountant by profession currently working for a life assurance company in their retirement fund division. Have been doing that for 13 years now.
Before that I worked for a bank in their card division (debit, credit, etc.) performing reconciliations.
Might consider a change in my job in the near future, but I'll probably stay in the Financial Services Industry.

PC's has always been a hobby for me and I've been playing around with it since the early 90's.