What'cha do?

[black roadster]

How do ya get paid?.

I'm a delivery courier and college student.

Before that, I was in the IT industry for 8+ years as a support consultant for numerous companies around Dallas and Los Angeles. However, the IT industry isn't as good ($$$) as it was in the late 90s and likely never will be that good again.

I decided to go back to school for a degree in education and do something I'd enjoy. Looking forward to having summers off!

I actually love my job. I love not being stuck in an office all day and when I'm on the road, there are no over-bearing bosses or annoying co-workers to deal with. I'm basically my own boss.

As a bonus, I have tremendous employment benefits and good job security with FedEx.

[juxt3r]

i work in the corporate office of the container store.
i occasionally get to travel to help out with new store setups and remodels of older locations (headed to rockville, md, on monday for the start of a remodel).
i've been with the company for a little over five years. i started working at their addison location on belt line, transferred to the galleria location when addison closed. spent a couple of years in the distribution center in three departments, and moved into my current spot last september. the job has gotten me on tv once and in a video for fortune magazine once, as well. strange, since i'm not exactly photogenic...
great benefits for a small, privately-held company, and absurdly nice coworkers.
i was previously a benefits auditor guy for wyndham int'l in the nymphomart near downtown dallas. before that, well, i was in college running the campus radio station, so i have way way too much music lying around.

[rx7gslse]

mechanical engineer here... I design high tolerance plastic injection molded parts for fiber optic connectors.

Been here about 4 years now. Finally getting around to not being the peon.

[altiain]

I'm a delivery courier and college student as well, although I deliver pizzas instead of packages.

I'm only 31, but I've had some pretty varied experiences. I was a student pilot for two years (private license and intrument rating, although I haven't been up in over five years and don't have a current medical), then when it became clear to me that I probably would never make much money as a pilot, I left school and went to work for a small advertising firm. I worked there for a number of years, putting money away, knowing I wanted to go back and finish my degree. I was lucky enough to do some aggressive investing in the late '90s that paid off well, and in late '00 I followed through on returning to school full time, starting over basically from scratch (only about 10 hours of my previous classwork transferred to my new degree program). I'll be graduating in May from UTA with a Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering.

Now I just need to line up a post-graduation job.

[Majik]

nymphomart near downtown dallas

I was wondering if I could get directions there....

I run a restaurant for my parents, and I am slowly going to school for an engineering degree as well.

[channelmaniac]

I'm a Systems Engineer for Cisco Systems. I work with the resellers to make sure they can sell, design, install, and maintain our gear. I'm focused on security products and cover 2 1/2 states. Keeps me busy! Any free time is taken up with extra projects such as a book I'm writing. ARRGH! First deadline is here!

RJ

[onething]

Sr Training Rep for TXU Electric Delivery - 26 yrs last August

Subjects I teach:

Basic Math (fractions thru trig)
DC Theory
AC Theory
First Aid & CPR trainer for 150 +/- instructors
Smith Driving (remedial drivers' ed)
ATV Rider Familiarization
Pole Top Rescue
Bucket Truck Rescue
Manhole Rescue
Confined Space Rescue
Meter Disconnect/Reconnect
Arcing Demo Instructor Certification (electrical safety for the public)
Leadership
Scaffold inspection
and more I can't remember right now

Before that, I did TV production for a couple of small market stations and then AV production for TXU's training folks.

Did you really want to know all of that?

[Treibenschnell]

TV Director.


I yell at people for a living.

[fwMiata]

college student
currently working at autobahn bmw in the sales dept, im the gopher/porter/whatever. its fun.

[billccsi]

Prez of a manufacturer of custom electronics for a variety of OEM applications. Largest markets are in food service equipment. We do many of the controls for automated cooking systems used by Mickey D's, BK, Taco Bell, KFC, A&W, many more...

BEST part of being the boss... an '03 Shinsen as my company car, (4th Miata). 2nd best... I can take most any nice day off to enjoy it.

My job does require quite a bit of travel. I can often drive, so I know every back road from here to California, and in most every direction. Have GPS, Will Travel.

[Dave04]

I do software integration for cell phones. Specifically, OS integration and multimedia codecs for our line of applications processors. Most of the stuff I deal with is on Symbian.

Look for us in a cell phone near you:

[Sharpie]

I'm a middle school teacher for kids with Autism. I have them all day. Everyday is an adventure! We work all day to increase their expressive communication, and coping skills to be better behaved and increase independence.

[MadMerv]

Software Engineer - Maintain the software used for enroute seperation to keep all those aeroplanes from meeting in the sky at one of twenty centers around the country (FTW). We cover an area of approximately 800,000 square miles. Largest real-time computer system in the world.....never a dull moment, and always learning....even after twenty-six years!

In my spare time, house designer/builder, race car builder/driver. I love to tinker :)

[trackfiend]

Work for a high speed industrial print system manufacturer. I do production and prototyping for systems from EBI to UV Inkjet. It's actually alot of fun and quite interesting most of the time. Then my part time job is working at Motorsport Ranch, the money there is not big but the benefits are great(free track time!!!!!! ).

[TurboDuane]

Self employed here. Somedays I'm loaded, most days I'm not. (this is true of money and ). I've got a couple of small companies, Arlington Computers & Gallup Properties. So I can sell you a computer, a network, or possibly a house.

I am also a Private Pilot without a current medical (went and got myself grounded, for real ). Another hobbie of mine is sailing of which I enjoy racing sailboats as much as I do Miata's. I've even got a Chysler Mutineer that I need to restore and get ready to race. I'd already done this if I hadn't found Auto-Xrossing a while back. Now, I find the time to restrore the boat limited.

[Mark52]

I work for a playground manufacturer down in Mansfield. I design playgrounds. Got some going in in Germany, Italy and Sicily at the moment. I'm stuck at a CAD station and they never let me out! Like TurboDuane, I use to race sailboats (C-15's) before getting hooked on autocrossing.

[sammm]

I am a mainframe systems programmer. Just got outsourced by Bell Helicopter to CSC at the first of the year. I'm now a 'Senior Computer Scientist' according to them. Who comes up with that stuff?

[MadMerv]

I am a mainframe systems programmer. Just got outsourced by Bell Helicopter to CSC at the first of the year. I'm now a 'Senior Computer Scientist' according to them. Who comes up with that stuff?

Do you know Jovial????? Much of the Air traffic software was written in it....back in the early sixties.......

[sammm]

I am a mainframe systems programmer. Just got outsourced by Bell Helicopter to CSC at the first of the year. I'm now a 'Senior Computer Scientist' according to them. Who comes up with that stuff?

Do you know Jovial????? Much of the Air traffic software was written in it....back in the early sixties.......

No I don't. I support the mainframe Operating System(s) software, not much on the Application side of things.

[channelmaniac]

Sammm is into the BIG Iron :)