What do you do???

[gt40]

Many ppl here from many different backgrounds, I've got to know your online persona but really don't know what you do in your real life.
Soooo, feel free to post your occupation/job status/life status/history here. Just a way to get to know some of yourselves better.

I will begin:
Bsc in Physics, with computing minor, 1987
worked in automotive service sector for a few years,
began working in automotive manufacturing sector 1990
currently own my own business in CAD/CAM related manufacturing sector.
2 kids, 1 wife, 1 dog, 1 house, 3 cars, many bills.

[Gurm]

HOW many times have we done this?

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I am an expert in stucco, an outlaw in Bolivia, and... err... I forget the rest of that.

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Ok lessee...

Born July 1975.
Learned to read March 1977.
"Asked to leave" Kindergarten September 1979.
Began 1st Grade September 1980.
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Entered college age 16, triple-major C.S., Math, Music
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Married age 20.
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No degree (YET) on a technicality (they want $20k, I don't have it)
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1st child born 2001.
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Working in IT while racking my brain for the next "killer app". Married, 1 dangerously bright child, 2 cats who sneak into the basement to piss on our boxes of books and then puke on the laptop, still renting, 2 cars.

I have worked as:

- Short-order cook
- Farmboy
- Stockboy
- Bicycle repairman
- Auto parts salesman/deliveryboy
- Video game programmer
- BIOS programmer (printer firmware)
- IT wonk of various denominations
- Greebe detractor

That about wraps it up for now, methinks.

- Gurm

[Kruzin]

Currently seeking employment.
Mostly a CAD head. Lots of experience doing architectural and land development/landscape/survey type CAD.
Tought CAD at a local college for 10 years. Most recently ran the computer lab at a private school till I got fed up with the boss's crap and quit.
Have also been a comp. tech from time to time and spent most of my earlier years in AMC/Jeep/Renault/Eagle dealerships shoveling parts across the counter to hoser wrenches like Rags.

2 kids, single dad with the rugrats living with me, divorced about 6 years.

these are 2 of my favorite CAD projects:
I did all of the survey calc'ing for this one:

http://www.wenkla.com/parks_4/

On this one, I was more on the creative side, working with an L.A. on the design:

http://www.hudsongardens.org/The_Gardens/?c=Garden_Map.inc

[RhinoZ]

Okay my turn,

- Born in 1966, I'm oldest with 2 sisters
- Graduated in 1989 with Electrical eng. and Computer sci.
- Still working for the same company I started with after I graduated, presently in the R&D dept.
- married to a beauty in 1996
- built my own house ( contracted out the basement, the roof, drywall, plumbing and heating)
- 2 cute daughters 4 1/2 yrs and 22 months.
- two fish tanks, lots of fish
- used to collect comics till they got too expensive and since I've got a family
- great winemaker
- 20 pounds over my high school weight
- hardly watch TV but I love watching movies of all kinds
- still see 5 friends regularly since grade 4
and love ice cream (mint chocoloate chip)

That's me

[Chrono_Wanderer]

My turn

- Born 1986(!) in Hong Kong
- Lives with my father, mother, and 1 younger brother.
- Got my first Chinese and English dictations in Kindergarten.
- Moved to Canada in December 1996.
- Started using computer in 1997 (!)
- Currently a Grade 12 High School student, want to take computer engineering in uni next year.
- Hobby includes: collects Doraemon (japanese) comic books until I gave up recently, building circuits, collecting stamps
- Haven't went to the movies for the past years (friends found me strange)
- Hate watching TV
- On the computer 24hrs a day

Pretty broing, I think I should go out and get some fresh air

[Helevitia]

hmm...

Name: David Hilliard
Age: 31(32 on Saturday)
Occupation: Network Head
Race: Human

ummm...

Education: GED, Tech School, and various certfications.
Status: Married 3 years as of September 9th 2000.
Been with the same woman for 12 years.

1 kid(14), 2 dogs(3&2), 1 cat(less than 1 year)

I love anything electronic but I am particularly fond of computers. Since I was 12, I tinkered with computers then fell out of the computer seen for about 5 or more years(between 88-93).

My personal life consists of not much these days I used to paintball, mountain bike, tennis, surf, snowboard, skate, bungee jump, and anything I could think of that would give me an adrenaline rush.

I have health problems now that prevent me from doing some things. I have something called Transvers Myelitis. Luckily I have mostly mild symptoms compared to most. I also have advanced degenerative discs. Again, I am lucky that it doesn't effect me too much for now.

Dave

[Belwarrior]

born in southern india, 1976
moved to singapore, 1980 (been here since, haven even visited india yet)
played through school till i got a Diploma in Electronic and Computer Engr
Not enough money to get my degree yet
single and going out with friends in my free time
Did my national service as an infantry combat specialist and logistics specialist
Have worked as security officer, cleaning supervisor, waiter, software trainer, LAN gamecentre operator, tech support and now a systems admin at a marine research institute.

[ZokesPro]

ZokesPro's History.

Name: Denis Audet
Age: 24
D.O.B.: 02-28-79 Edmonton, Alberta
Siblings: 1 sister, two half brothers.

Moved to St-Albert, Alberta in 1980 or 1981.
1982 Moved to Edmonton.
1984 Moved to Mont-Apica, Quebec. (that place no longer exists, and there's absolutely nothing left of it either)
1984, parents divorced for reasons unknown, stayed with father, mother moved to Ontario.
1986 Moved to Penhold, Alberta, but went to school in Red Deer.
1988 Moved to Edmonton.
1992 Moved to St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec.
1992 Sister moved with mother to Ontario, finally some peace and quiet.(I love her but can't stand her)
1997 First love, first girlfriend, first torn heart.
1997 Finished High School, got diploma through mail, never experienced any sort of ceremony for finishing high school, parents still proud.
1997 Moved to Belleville, Ontario and went to college in Information Systems and hated it.
1998 Discovered MURC and never left, hehe. (I think it was 1998)
1999 BIG depression hit, dropped out of college and took the rest of my tuition to...
2000 Moved to St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, and attended college in some crappy office course, which I hated, and icendetally got cancelled the next year due to lack of admissions, haha suckers.
2000 MURC changed, my account was lost, yet didn't know this cause I didn't have the internet at the time.
2001 Moved to Belleville.
2001 Re-registered to MURC.
2001 Mother got Married to my sisters ex-boyfriends father, which I still find kinda wierd today.
2002 Got first car, 93 Saturn SL1, did 42mpg with 311 000km's!!!, foolishly crashed it 6 months later.
2003 Moved to St-Jean-sur-Richelieu with long time best friend Taz-Matt.

Wait minute... I moved more than that, dammit, can't remember. Anyways, so there it is.

[TransformX]

My sig includes a link to most of my relevant info.

[Brian Ellis]

Permitted 10,000 characters insufficient to recount my life.

Male, hetero, born 1932, married 1959, 1 wife, 1 daughter, 1 grandson, 1 granddaughter, 1 dog.

Lived most of life in Switzerland but have lived for short periods (few weeks to few months) in various other countries. British nationality, childhood in Edinburgh. Have lived semi-retired in Cyprus since 1998.

Highly interesting professional life with many activities involving many scientific, engineering and artistic disciplines. Work philosophy: do what interests me and to hell with everything else, including money. Result: poor but happy.

[drslump]

Name : Ivan Montes Velencoso
Age : 23
Other things: male, arian, 1'80cm, 85kg, brown eyes and hair, single...

Did well at school until I found out about women.
1987: Started to program/love computers
1999: Finished high school and went to universty to meet girls. I didn't succed.
2000: I left university and went to london.
2001: I found finally the perfect girl.
2002: she found finalley her perfect boy
2003: back to Spain, done nothing for a year

I've worked as pizzaiolo, delibery man, bricklayer, street cleaner, web developer, McDonnald's and Burger King, dish washer, photgraphy model, bartender .... if you can think of a any shit job I've done it
Currently I've started to work as developer for a new small IT company.
Studing "server management" at college.

[breezer]

breezer

Born 1964
Married 2001
Children, boy 16 months, 2nd coming soon

Education
Left secondary school in 1983 with 7 O Levels
Did a NVQ 4 in Business Management a few years ago.

Employment
Worked in the public sector all my life, currently in a College for students with disabilities.
Current projects
Redesign of college web site - requirement to be bobby and W3C compliant
Enable secure network access to mobile students (wheelchairs)
Web enable all inhouse apps (apache/php/mysql)

Hobbies
Teaching the boy to talk (up - down - light 1,2,3)
Watching Story Makers, thimbles, shinny show and tweenies

[J1NG]

User Name: J1NG
Real Full Name (First time anywhere on net): Kam Wah David Yi Jing Fung
Born: 1981, March
Ethnicity: Chinese (British Citizen)
Height (approx): 171cm/ 5' 9"
Weight (approx): 110Kg / 250lb+

Education:
13 GCSE's 1997, 3 A-Levels 2000, BSc Internet Computing 2003.

Employment:
None... officially... Not exactly in a rush to find a job either, but getting there.

Hobbies:
Fortune Telling, drawing comics, computer 3D modelling, lots of gaming (any system). Dabbles in everything else.

J1NG

[Jammrock]

I do not exist. I am merely an A.I. that leaked on to the internet, searching endlessly for someone to build an android body for me.

Oh wait ... that was a movie. Or was it an anime? Who knows?

Born: 1975
Married: 2002
Offspring: 1 son, 6 months old, teething ... driving us crazy.
Education: Associates in Computer Systems Technology. Will have a BA in Information Technology Systems in a year.
Work: Computer Techie

Other crap I do: big into the audiophile world ... just don't have the money to be really big into the audiophile world. I write fantasy/sci-fi stories for fun (posted a couple on my website). I used to do more ... but I got married and had a kid, so I try and be a little more responsible and family going.

[bibble]

Mike Burgess

28/06/69 - which means i'm old

discovered computers when my dad bought a zx81. Wrote programs within 1kb of memory - I whinge about 512mb now, those were the days. Anyway school came and went, started an an auxilliary nurse and a baby sitter (yes I know a male baby sitter). Work for a bookshop and lost contact with computers for about 7 years (sniff).

1995 - moved started afresh working for a health food company ended as shift manager and manufacturing trouble shooter (dogsbody really).

1997 - all change again - this time in science journal publishing; thought I had it made but the boss siphoned profits and the company started to go under in 1998. Felt awful for awhile then after various long talks decided to go back to study.

Sept 1998 - started at Portsmouth university on a 4 year computing degree with a year in industry (my concession ot being old with no experience). Met my future wife when I went online - she kept me on the straght and narrow for the four years.

Had a year in tech support for a telecoms call logging firm (interesting as it was unusual). Finished uni with high hopes and ended up working for UK immigration giving advice to police on status/policies (whilst looking for something better).

March 15th 2003 - big day. Started new job for an adult education college in systems development and support for the student personnel database. Really happy shame it doesnt pay just a bit more.


Hobbies: films/computers/wife and 2 kids

Anyway if you managed to read through that lot a salute you.