Anyways, what's everyone doing for a living these days? I remember back when the answer would be either high school student, college student, with a few people working grown up jobs.

Me, I moved to Wisconsin like 8 years ago now, went to grad school, but didn't finish. Moved on to work doing QA for a software company here in Madison for a couple of years. After that, I moved to where I am now, working for a company called Zendesk. Pretty cool place to be, started in Tier 2 support, just moved up to Tier 3 support. Didn't think I'd end up in tech support, but here I am.

What about you? What is everyone else up to these days?

Falaanla Marr fucked around with this message on 10-10-2015 at 12:40 PM.

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Falaanla Marr wrote:
Shit, I can't believe this board is still around, and there are a few people still here.

Anyways, what's everyone doing for a living these days? I remember back when the answer would be either high school student, college student, with a few people working grown up jobs.

Me, I moved to Wisconsin like 8 years ago now, went to grad school, but didn't finish. Moved on to work doing QA for a software company here in Madison for a couple of years. After that, I moved to where I am now, working for a company called Zendesk. Pretty cool place to be, started in Tier 2 support, just moved up to Tier 3 support. Didn't think I'd end up in tech support, but here I am.

What about you? What is everyone else up to these days?

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Inbound tech support still/again. At least its for commercial accounts; meaning the IQ level of my customers occasionally goes above 100.

But not always; for example, on one of my first calls, I got a woman whose MTA (phone modem) was dead- no power. So, I had her look on the back of it, and discovered there was nothing plugged into the power jack. Easy, right?

Well, no. Next followed 45+ minutes of asking her to find the power cord and plug it in; coupled with her saying "Oh, no, our UPS guy says it doesn't need it; it's all through the UPS."

I tried and I tried, but I could not convince this woman that UPS or no, the modem still needs a power cord plugged into it.

So not only did I spend 45 minutes trying to convince her she needed to plug her modem in, but I failed to do so.

Back to temp and/or freelance crap for me.

Gunslinger Moogle fucked around with this message on 10-11-2015 at 02:17 AM.

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Mightion Defensor impressed everyone with:
Inbound tech support still/again. At least its for commercial accounts; meaning the IQ level of my customers occasionally goes above 100.

But not always; for example, on one of my first calls, I got a woman whose MTA (phone modem) was dead- no power. So, I had her look on the back of it, and discovered there was nothing plugged into the power jack. Easy, right?

Well, no. Next followed 45+ minutes of asking her to find the power cord and plug it in; coupled with her saying "Oh, no, our UPS guy says it doesn't need it; it's all through the UPS."

I tried and I tried, but I could not convince this woman that UPS or no, the modem still needs a power cord plugged into it.

So not only did I spend 45 minutes trying to convince her she needed to plug her modem in, but I failed to do so.

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Incidents like this are why I love being Tier 3 support. Normally, people like this are caught before they get to me. Though I do occasionally have to get into discussions with people regarding internet speed and internet quality (regarding our VoIP app). You can have the fastest internet, but if it's dropping packets like crazy, that speed doesn't matter.

In the end, though, it's a pretty solid gig. I don't know if I could do initial inbound contact with any regularity, though. I've got respect for all y'all that can pull that off and not go crazy.

Falaanla Marr fucked around with this message on 10-11-2015 at 11:22 PM.

rebooting servers with 1000 to 1300 days uptime still makes me cry.

Recent example from an Alfa Romeo 105 GT Veloce.

This:

To this:

It's pretty rewarding but very dirty, smelly, hard, unglamorous work. You get covered in all manner of crap, sometimes literally as the old method of filling holes in vehicles included chicken/cow shit mixed with newspaper and mesh (no, really!) and that old filler has to be removed. Usually all over my face and clothes.

You also get fucking numbnuts who don't know how to care for a classic car, buy one from you, then break the poor thing and blame you for it. Been to court twice now and the judge laughed both of them out of court.

I love it and wouldn't want to do anything else. Just glad I have a backer who has quite a bit of money otherwise this would not be possible at all. I'm not anything like those big garages shown in US TV shows (which are mostly completely staged and acted bullshit anyway), I'm just a small operation.

Edit: that's really awesome, Mort.

Bloodsage fucked around with this message on 10-12-2015 at 04:06 PM.

16 years later I'm the administrator, and my mom's enjoying a retirement of seemingly nonstop trips to Vegas, Cancun and Florida.

Work really varies as some days are slow, others have either parents or children screaming at me. Most of my time is on accounting work, gotta collect the tuition so I can pay the staff and taxes.

* I didn't make the current site. We're working on a new one.

Got 2.6 kids now too.

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Y.O.T.C wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
Orthotic and Prosthetic technician. I make legs.

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"Do they go all the way up?"

Has anyone come in asking for legs like they were from sailor moon? The "my body is 65% leg" kind legs?

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Bajah stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
IT Manager for Greater Houston, for the largest oil and gas services company in the world. I enjoy it. Gets real busy though.

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Schlumberger? If so, I have a buddy that works over there as a VMware admin.

I'm a network security engineer for a bank.

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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Random Insanity Generator said:
"Do they go all the way up?"

Has anyone come in asking for legs like they were from sailor moon? The "my body is 65% leg" kind legs?

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Technically speaking if you are a bilateral amputee we can increase and decrease your height by about 5-10% safely depending on how stable you are.

To better answer your question, only once.

To more oddly answer your question. I'm also a certified Orthotic Fitter and put stockings on people ALL the way up.

It's more horrible than you could ever imagine.

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Out of a possible 10, Hellbender scored a straight 1 with:
Schlumberger? If so, I have a buddy that works over there as a VMware admin.

I'm a network security engineer for a bank.

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Tis the one, aye.

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Bajah had this to say about (_|_):
Tis the one, aye.

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I'd say it's a small world, but really who in Houston doesn't know someone who works/worked for them.

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Y.O.T.C said:
It's more horrible than you could ever imagine.

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I don't know, I can imagine a lot of pretty horrible things if you'd like to give those a try instead.

i might open a brewery or something, i dont know.

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Liam got served! Liam got served!
im a researcher in the department of chemistry at our local university.

i might open a brewery or something, i dont know.

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Now is the time. The number of breweries in the US has doubled in the last 5 years. It's basically a license to print money.

edit: Oh, my answer is the same as it has been for the last 15+ years or so that I was on the forums; software stuff. Holy crap that makes me feel old.

diadem fucked around with this message on 11-28-2015 at 09:01 AM.

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Falaanla Marr impressed everyone with:
Moved on to work doing QA for a software company here in Madison for a couple of years.

What about you? What is everyone else up to these days?

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Bet I know the company.

I work in Madison at a software company; finance though.

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Vorbis stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
Bet I know the company.

I work in Madison at a software company; finance though.

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One of my cousins works at "a" software company in Madison too.

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Vorbis had this to say about Robocop:
Bet I know the company.

I work in Madison at a software company; finance though.

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I bet you DO know the company. Hah. Yeah, they were the only company that responded when I was trying to get out of Stevens Point. Had a very mixed experience at said company, but it was the best decision I made since it got me to Madison and got me experience in the tech field (journalism degrees don't carry much professional weight to be sure). I'm very happy down here in Madison, it's a great city. The place I work at now is pretty damn amazing. Here's a picture from when we opened our office. Working beer taps in the kitchen, and we now have 4 coolers of drinks over there in the back corner, all free. A snack wall, everything. Right on the square.

Falaanla Marr fucked around with this message on 12-29-2015 at 12:17 AM.

I've been working for a Landscaping company for the past year and a half on lawn/garden maintenance.

Otherwise, I've been part of a Twitch Gaming talk show for the past year in my spare time, and enjoying it.

I have several unpublished books written, and recently started a potential webcomic. I also have four children.

I'm old. So old. And I've gotten opinionated, vocal, and prolific in my old age. I read four to sic books a week and can write around 3000 words a day when I get squirrelly.

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From the book of Azakias, chapter 3, verse 16:
I also have four children.

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nem-x thought about the meaning of life:

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And I've only been pregnant three times.

Might be a sign of the apocalypse.

My oldest just turned ten and holy shit I'm so old.