What do you do in the real world?

[wolf99]

Struggling unemployed electronic design student in the remote west of Ireland. Boy I feel far away.
Learning C, assembly and a wincy bit o JAva at uni

Hobby at webdesign; XHTML, JS, PHP and digital imagry; photoshop etc
(current project: http://answers.freehostia.com)

Currently in very desperate need of a job

[sde]

Long time since I updated this. I am now working with Open Circle developing PHP and AJAX. We do a lot of Drupal development as well. I'm working out of my home office so it's a nice change from the big corporate world.

[DJMaze]

good call SDE so here's my update:

3 weeks off and will start in January as projects manager at a website company that builds big multimedia based sites for companies like MTV, Disney and such.

[redhead]

Ok, I noticed I've been away from this thread for some time since my last Update .

To keep everyone up to speed, I've served my time in the army so that's in the past now

At the moment I'm working as a project manager for LEO Pharma. Currently leading a team of 35 programmers, and expanding with 16 more january 1.st, so at the moment I'm kinda busy, but it's not as stressfull as it was 6 month ago

[technobard]

My update:
I'm a lead dba for a "major banking institution". This is likely not going to last through 2008 given the current state of things. I am still holding out hope that I can do IT part time while pursuing other interests.

[DJMaze]

@redhead: stressfull?
Aren't there any drugs in your company that compensate that?

[redhead]

Sorry DjM, no help from that department , the mainline of drugs are either blood coagulating/thinnering, bone marrow strengthening, or rash/scrapings curring.
For that other effect, Lundbech would be a better place, and the fact that I live about a mile from them, might be a reason to head for them next

[teknomage1]

I guess I should update too. I'm a Pipeline Programmer at a Visual Effects company in Los Angeles. It's mostly perl stuff.

[downpour]

Hello all. I'm a new member (but I used to hang out here a long time ago). Just trying to find a place to help with coding and to learn more about coding.

Now with introductions out of the way...

I'm a java developer with a financial company. Hopefully that will change soon. I'd like to find a python job somewhere, but they're somewhat hard to come by.

Outside of work, I spend most of my time with my wife, playing video games and guitar.

[dazz williams]

Hey everyone! I post and reply here once in awhile so I thought I'd reply in this thread's update/resurgence.

I finished my BSc in Computer Science last year. I am now trying my hand at freelance web development while keeping a part-time computer upkeep/consulting job to maintain some sort of steady cash flow.
Currently I'm working on PHP/MySQL projects as I try to gain expertise in that area.
dazz.

[cokacola]

Hey, im not currently working, im i high school, and for about half a week ago, i started a project for myself, im making a PHP/mysql/HTML/CSS ect ect, powered opensource Hosting panel, with signup and homepage template, aswell as the panel, no install script, just a config.php, and any changes to documents you want to make...at the moment, im doing it by myself, so i signed up here to seek help for any problems I incounter. By the way, EzzaHost.(is name for panel, lolz)

[HostV]

What is the Real world?

[redhead]

Where everything isn't part of a show

[DJMaze]

Originally Posted by HostV

What is the Real world?

The place where you drink beer and actualy get drunk.
The place where you have a headache the next day due to the fact that you drank beer the day before.
The place where it really hurts when you get hit by a truck.
The place where sex feels real
The place where your girl/boyfriend really dumps you for a cuter guy/woman

[technobard]

The Real World is anything outside the Matrix.

My Update: I have left the corporate world (real world?) to take time off to write fiction. I'm starting a collection of magazine rejection letters. I'm also going to do independent consulting eventually-- hopefully part time.