I think ur fibbing....its the clarinet, isnt it

RWD up in Baltimore? Whoah, small world. I just got an email from an old friend who works there as well, Daniel Korn.

--Nathan

I'm the alpha network geek for an events agency. We put on business meetings, trade shows, incentive trips, etc. Lots of cool, edgy, dressed in black, creative types. But I'm just the network geek, and look horrible in black. I spend about half my day just keeping an eye on systems in our 30ish offices.

-jk

I'm doing unix sysadmin contracting at the moment but I'm currently looking for a job in information security. I've got a piece of paper that says I'm qualified so I thought I'd better actually use it Speaking of which, I've got an interview next week. argh

A mask designer currently pushing the buttons to generate automated layout of libraries for synthesis in our favorite RISC processors. I really miss custom layout, pushing buttons leaves too much time to smack a penguin or dodge blocks...

Weird ... I looked him up in the directory. It appears that he works in another division, so I haven't worked with him before.

Ok Porgie... but what about Morse Science High?

Reference to this album

Sean

I'm the lead engineer for a small company that does online promotions (mostly for large consumer packaged goods companies). I do J2EE development, some Oracle DBA duties, some linux/solaris sysadmin, a little perl, some hosting site setup/maintenance, the occasional bit of C development, and pretty much anything else required to make our stuff work. I have worked there longer than anybody else at this point and I always get my stuff done so nobody complains when I spend time on the BBS.

-Mike

I'm CEO of my company. Employs 58 people - we're in the transport industri, doing dispatching system and mobile devices (using pSOS, Vxworks and Linux)

I'm in Denmark, Europe - posts here when i get home, and the kids and girlfriend have gone to bed.. Nothing beats empegbbs when it comes to relaxing and thinking on something else than work! really!

My background is *NIX admin & programmer, Novell CNE, MSCE, C/C++ programmer, LAN/WAN troubleshooting.. Basicly spend 12-14 hours infront of computers from the age of 10 'till 25 mixed with alot of windsurfing untill i met my girlfriend..

I'm 29 btw..

Cheers

Kaare

Ok Porgie... but what about Morse Science High?

You get the brownie pin for catching the reference. Although I don't know about the "Weirdly Cool" thing you linked, I was specifically trying to quote Dwarf.

"Step on it, or we'll be late for the last meeting of the Philatelist's Club."
"Gee, Porgie, I didn't know you masturbated..."

It never stops to impress me, the number of IT people around this bbs. And reminds me I'm quite an uncommon guy here... Anyway, I'm a Food & Beverage consultant and supervisor and I work for the Largest Casino in my country. Also I'm one of the Micros 3700 sys admins (learned all my IT skills the wrong way, trying to get the system up in the middle of a 5,000 customer rush.) But basically I'm a wine specialist turned over a large F&B operation administrator. My employers own four casinos around the country and five more in Panama.

so by glancing at the repsonses it seems that small to mid size tech companies are the median employers.....with system wizzards being the median employee!!

A HP-UX, linux, network (and yep, windows) supporter. We are 7 guys for IT-Support in a 400 employees factory. We develop, manufacture and sell smoke-detectors and complete security-systems. I read the BBS at home (germany here) and at work. Nobody cares, as long my work gets done.

cheers, Thomas

programmer in the USAF making trainers for pilots, primarily.

OOps, I meant to post this URL instead for Dwarf...

I'm currently a production supervisor for an automotive logistics support company, we sequence all the parts for the Chrysler Pacifica assembly line here in Windsor...

I was a member of the Canadian Army for 20 years just until recently tho....

OOps, I meant to post this URL instead for Dwarf...

Ooo, I like that synopsis!

"who keep yelling out silly things like "Eat it raw" and "Fuck you," and "What is reality?""

... I recall seeing a movie recently which paid homage to that very moment in Dwarf. I think it was "Election" with Matthew Broderick. Not certain...

I'm a lowly field tech for a major drug store chain in the Dayton and Springfield Ohio area though I help to cover other areas of Ohio at times.

I'm a "Knowledge Engineer" for NCR Corporation. I help improve tools and processes in our customer support centers, which may involve slinging Java, Lotus Notes, HTML/PHP/ASP, etc. I telecommute out of my home, so I can have the BBS up all day long if I like!

Someone has to be totally different. I am the "Frozen Foods Manager" at a local grocery store! No need to clap. But with me still in college it works well. I am however studying telecommunications, and recently received my CCNA, so I am learning the stuff to be like everyone else

Spelling and grammer are because I have Mild Dislexia

Reminds me of one of my favorite cartoons:

Man in white robe and long beard, marching with his sign that says:

"DYSLEXICS OF THE WORLD -- UNTIE!"

No disrespect intended, and I am glad that you have made a good adjustment to your problem.

tanstaafl.

Here is a real original job...

I am the network administrator for my company, CDR Associates. Although I am IT, the company I work for is in the health care industry. We resolve credit balances for patient accounts betwen hospitals and health care companies.

I am responsible for anything and everything that is IT at the company. A year and 2 months ago, there was no IT department. We're growing some, which is nice. No need to go into further detail, I think everyone here knows what network administrators do.

Unfortunately, I don't have as much time to browse the BBS as I would like. The company I worked for before, Aether Systems, was going down the tubes. I was a support guy there. As time passed, I spent more and more time on the BBS simply because they kept laying people off, so we had less people to support.

We kept ourselves amused. There was a hole (about 3 inches in diameter) in the ceiling and we would throw things at it hoping to get something stuck up there. We stopped when someone's orange ended up there.

Anybody else care to contribute?

Traffic manager at a group of radio stations in Interior Alaska. I'm the guy who makes sure that all the commercials get on the air at the times they are supposed to be on, and that the clients get billed the correct amount for those commercials. I deal with 1000--1500 commercials each day (about 300 on each station).

I guess I am sort of second in command (after our chief engineer) as systems administrator for a two-server network (one Windows, one Novell) with 50 or 60 workstations on it. Was a beta tester for the traffic and billing software that we use to run the stations, bailed from that and refused to upgrade to the newer versions when they went to a ridiculous mouse-driven GUI system that would have increased my workload 25%.

tanstaafl.

Anyone other then me think its funny that 99% of the people in this post are Geeks (Yes I said GEEK I say it loud I'm a GEEK and I'm Proud)

That’s ok I have heard them all, I normally ignore the first few comments, after that I get annoyed and for some reason the network Port that person is on, gets routed to south Yemen via a Dial up connection routed via Glasnosic Siberia (Really not sure how that keeps happening but I’ll fix it as soon as I can

Or maybe the PDC seems to think that the minimum password length for that person is 87 characters and their password expires every 32 minutes.

I don't know what else you would expect from a bunch of people who have FREAKING LINUX COMPUTERS IN THEIR DASHBOARDS!

I still get weird looks when I tell people it's a computer that runs Linux. There's a running joke in my department that if we can't find server space for something "we can always run it on Mark's car stereo".

Currently unemployed from the web development field in North Carolina. Anyone know of a WebDev position in the RTP, NC that is hiring???

Sean in NC

I guess I'm another kind of the oddball here.
Although I wasnt always...
I was a sys admin at Brandeis University outside Boston for about 5 years, but about 2 years ago, I got tired of sitting behind a desk.
So now I'm a "Marine Systems Engineer" (boat builder), in Portland, Maine.
I check the board here once in the morning on the way out the door, and then again when I get home.
Keeps me current with the goings on, although I'm woefully behind on my Hijack updates. Sorry Mark.

Just for fun heres a pic of the head (toilet/bathroom for you landlubbers) on an Open 60 Class sloop that completed the last Around Alone, and is competing in the upcoming Vendee Globe around the world singlehand race.
Notice the carbon fiber whoopee bar.

Systems programmer for the central campus computing organization at a university in Pittsburgh. Consultant doing distributed filesystems support from home as a side job. Volunteer at many levels for the OpenAFS project

..interesting.....all testosterone so far!!!!

I even things out a little bit -- I sew frilly little pink dresses and other figureskating costumes.

Oh...

Wait. No I don't. I'm a software developer at a visual effects studio, working on developing tools to improve integration between our mix and mashed conglomerate of software tools (some off-the-shelf, many proprietary), as well as the overall efficiency of the studio in general. I'm currently transitioning from being a mere plebe to being a plebe with serfs working under him as a pipeline programmer lead. I have about a half-dozen movie credits, but I haven't bothered to add myself to IMDb.

Edit: I typically only read/post from home, because I have other timewasters at work.