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Wed Jan-03-07 07:30 PM
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How many of us are IT workers? |
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Post what you do, and what language, system, or whatever you work with...
I've been in IT for 20 years now (sigh...), started out with COBOL and other such shite in the banking and insurance industries.
Was a consultant/code whore for a long time before becoming an employee again.
For about the past 8 years I've developed internet-based Quality Assurance software for the defense and aerospace industry in a Windows environment using Borland's Delphi (Pascal), Oracle and SQL Server.
You?
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Wed Jan-03-07 07:37 PM
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1. About 50 percent of the time I repair hardware (unfucker Windows).. |
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The other 50 is spent with PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Python, Django, CSS, and XHTML.
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Wed Jan-03-07 07:40 PM
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Wed Jan-03-07 07:57 PM
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3. Technically, I'm not an IT worker. Many of my jobs and my current work revolves |
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around maintaining systems and coding though. Many platforms over the years, and many different languages,both categories have more than their fair share of offbeat members (Ataris, Amigas, Modula-2, Oberon-2, assembly, etc.)
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Wed Jan-03-07 08:09 PM
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4. I work in networking. Windows environment mostly |
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Though there is a little Netware in one part of the company that I deal with occasionally.
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Wed Jan-03-07 08:51 PM
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5. I have my own computer repair business |
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I've been in business threeannahalf years. Does that count?
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Wed Jan-03-07 08:54 PM
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Wed Jan-03-07 08:59 PM
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For a moment I thought all my clients may be in trouble... :rofl:
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Wed Jan-03-07 08:57 PM
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I've been a developer, a tester, a DBA, all around the product. The funny thing is, I went to school for business and wanted to go into marketing. Some days I'm still not really sure how I got into this line of work, and then I remember: it was because there weren't any jobs for new MBA's in marketing anywhere near where I lived when I got out of school. Oh well - work to live, not live to work.
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Wed Jan-03-07 09:01 PM
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9. IT Support and multimedia services |
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Wed Jan-03-07 09:04 PM
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10. Web Developer Here... |
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Hate it...can't wait to leave...but never fear, i have a plan...mwa ha ha ha
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Wed Jan-03-07 10:04 PM
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15. hi zappa_parappa - Welcome to DU :) even though you've been here a |
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Wed Jan-03-07 09:08 PM
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Wed Jan-03-07 09:39 PM
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I use AutoCad, SolidWorks, Excell, Gibbs software to force metal to do what I want.
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Wed Jan-03-07 10:01 PM
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14. oh my god I reimaged someones machine last week |
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and have not gotten solidworks back on yet
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Wed Jan-03-07 10:22 PM
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16. Cool, was the machine off by much? |
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What kind of machine? big or small?
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Wed Jan-03-07 10:31 PM
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17. I mean I reimaged someones computer so it could |
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be Windows XP SP2 which is our corporate standard - but there is a ton of software to reload, including SolidWorks, and its a much bigger deal to reinstall than most software is. There are a bunch of service paks for SolidWorks too. Our company makes the huge diesel engines that go on ships and submarines.
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Wed Jan-03-07 09:57 PM
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13. desktop/server support in a microsoft environment |
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database server stuff too
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Wed Jan-03-07 10:44 PM
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Wed Jan-03-07 10:54 PM
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19. Getting close to 20 yrs...ughhhh! |
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Gloomy timeline looks something like this...
Computer component level repair (mostly DEC PDP-11). DEC VAX Clusters. Routers, Bridges and Firewalls. Network design and implementation. MS-LAN Manager, OS/2. DEC Pathworks. System Infrastructure design (NT 3.51). Turbo C, VB, DBase III SCO & BSD UNIX. Systems Management (SMS, Tivoli). Cisco Routers & PIX. CheckPoint Firewall. MS SQL Server. PowerBuilder, C++ Lots of Web based apps. MTS, COM+, DCOM, ADO/OLEDB. Classic ASP, VB, JavaScript, XML/XSLT, CSS, SOAP T-SQL, C#.Net, VB.Net, ASP.Net, ADO.Net
...and a lot of other stuff I'd just rather forget about. :)
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Wed Jan-03-07 11:44 PM
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20. Have been in IT for 8 years |
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My job for now: Network Admin.
My job in about 18 months: Network Security Specialist
I want to play with the fun network stuff
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Thu Jan-04-07 01:22 AM
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21. Systems Analyst in multinational manufacturer, |
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plants in 22 countries. Do a real mixed bag of IT functions since I am the only IT person in my business unit at my facility (conveniently located in the middle of nowhere). Do security and backup support on a very old mainframe app with 8,000 COBOL and assembler programs; write, maintain and compile "rules" for data access in ACF2. HW and SW support on desktop, servers, printers, network equipment. Have worked in CIS/MIS for many types of organizations, manufacturers, telcom, large retailer, edu, gov. Have been a Novell CNE (v 3 thru 6) for about 15 years but haven't worked with NetWare for about 5 years; CWNA, Cisco CCNP & CCDP.
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Thu Jan-04-07 02:38 AM
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32 years now, about half of that in the DoD world. I do mostly C, C++ and Java. .NET kinda makes my skin crawl for reasons I can't quite determine.
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Thu Jan-04-07 04:16 AM
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23. I do Network Security and Information Assurance... |
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...in the Navy. Started out as an NT Admin and worked by way up.
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Thu Jan-04-07 07:13 AM
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24. Developer of web based insurance solutions. |
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Thu Jan-04-07 07:20 AM
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I've programmed with Oracle databases for eight and a half years. Mostly PL/SQL and Forms, and at my previous job I used Oracle Pro*C also. So I also know C although I don't get to do that at my current job. I also have a working knowledge of Java.
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Thu Jan-04-07 09:02 AM
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28. From one Code Cowboy to another... |
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Thu Jan-04-07 08:37 AM
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26. Automated Software Testing... |
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I live in the VB Scripting world, and I work for a huge bank, (think of what a dog does to a squirrel). The bank sucks the soul right outta me, but I'm only here for another week. Then, its back to the insurance industry...
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Thu Jan-04-07 08:56 AM
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we still do shite for the insurance industry, in Cobol and equally archaic languages/systems.
We are porting many of the applications to the Web, and even I, old mossback that I am (programmer since 1980) have done some of that work. But our server is still an IBM mainframe-- running DOS/VSE, the red-headed stepchild of operating systems. (My previous jobs were all VM/CMS, which I prefer.)
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Thu Jan-04-07 12:09 PM
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30. my husband's a software guy |
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he likes object-oriented languages and Java, from what I hear. ;)
I myself am more of a Luddite who is always confused by the task bar and what everything there is called and does. The only fun thing for me about going to the Mac store was looking at the cute geek guys.
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Thu Jan-04-07 12:20 PM
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31. PC tech/network support mook |
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in a foodservice warehousing firm. Great place to work, and my boss is a DUer as well, so we have interesting conversations in our office. Maybe that's why they stuck us all the way down the hall, it can't just be the noisy fans in the server racks! :D
We build all our PC's and servers in-house (and even build barebone laptop kits) so I've always got something neat cooking...
Todd in Beerbratistan
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Thu Jan-04-07 12:24 PM
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32. Lots of things in C and Assembly that'd make your armpit hair raise -nt |
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Thu Jan-04-07 12:24 PM
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33. Web Developer mostly .NET - Love it! n/t |
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Thu Jan-04-07 12:28 PM
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34. Software engineer and production support |
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I keep the banking services systems running for a major financial services company.
Languages: C#, VB (.Net and 6), VBScript, Javascript, JScript, ASP (Classic and .Net), XML, XSLT, HTML, CSS, Progress, SQL... Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, Progress, DB2
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