What do you do?
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Heylel
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This is about 70% of my job as an accessibility specialist. Making the business case for why maybe having labels on your UI components is a good idea even if it costs a bit of dev time.
And do you gentlemen enjoy these jobs more so than when you did more technical work? I thankfully don't have to make my decision until the winter.
Alex
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It's a mixed bag. On one end it sucks seeing some of that knowledge completely leave my mind. I'm mediocre at best with SQL now and my PHP skills are practically non-existent. I can barely maneuver through Unix/Linux at this point as well.
However, I think my personality and skillset is a better fit for this role and I'm better at it than I ever was as a developer. This position also takes way more conceptual thinking. There's a lot of solutions design involved and most of the business problems are very complex and it's up to me to present the most efficient solution. I spend a lot of time designing prototypes and POCs which I love. Lot of thinking on the fly in client meetings and coming up with alternate solutions.
However, I think my personality and skillset is a better fit for this role and I'm better at it than I ever was as a developer. This position also takes way more conceptual thinking. There's a lot of solutions design involved and most of the business problems are very complex and it's up to me to present the most efficient solution. I spend a lot of time designing prototypes and POCs which I love. Lot of thinking on the fly in client meetings and coming up with alternate solutions.
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Heylel
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I was never a heavy technical guy. I was always in research. I have noticed a degradation in my ability to write in the style I used to do daily with grant proposals, and I've become more technical in my explanations. Less wordy, less trying to prove an assertion.
I do love my job. I'm basically in the business of digital curbcuts. It's rewarding to know that I am helping to solve access problems for people with disabilities who are just trying to go to college, cash a check, order lunch, etc.
I do love my job. I'm basically in the business of digital curbcuts. It's rewarding to know that I am helping to solve access problems for people with disabilities who are just trying to go to college, cash a check, order lunch, etc.
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Crone
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I'm just a contractor, but it's the same way here at Boeing. Maybe I should be more secretive of where I work? Meh... I'm just a contractor... lol... But for some reason I don't mind it. I'd take that management job in a minute!
ZyyzYzzy
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Brah I'm a contractor doing program management. Getting money from my DoD client to another DoD entity literally ends up costing the goverment more paying me than the dollar amount their sending sometimes
Crone
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Alex
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I worked for a mega corporation (GE) for six months and it was the worst job I ever had. I hated it more than when I worked for the Ohio Department of Transportation and picked up fucking roadkill off the side of the road. It was incredibly boring. No one had any ambition there. I automated my entire job and would do my entire week's worth of assignments in a few hours. I Peter Gibbons'ed the fuck outta that job. Showed up at 10. Left at 2.
ZyyzYzzy
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Sounds like the perfect job if it paid well and you could talk your way up the ladder.
Erronius
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I was pushing for a job with a DOE contractor, but I think I am going to put that on hold for at least a year and work a 3rd shift job for a bit to get out of debt. I will prob stop teaching on the side and finish two AAS degrees. The job is an industrial maintenance position in the food industry (think food assembly lines), but I'm more worried about getting eternally stuck in a 3rd shift position and never getting the seniority to move onto 1st shift. I'm planning on keeping an open mind though, as I've been told it is a good company, but eternal 3rd shift will not cut the mustard for me. Right now here in KC industry is booming supposedly, so it's well within the realm of possibility that I could work here for a year or so and then find a job that pays better and be on days, but I don't know, maybe this place will turn out to be pretty good.
What was funny is I was talking to a coworker at school today who used to work at a meatpacking/steak place locally as maintenance, and he was telling me that they had really high turnover (personnel churn) because their timeframe on meat due to FDA regs really put stress on everyone in the industry. So he's standing there waving his hands around telling me "You've got 14 days...14 days, and if you don't process the meat in that time..." and I just couldn't keep my shit together. I kept picturing Furor standing in a meatpacking plant screaming at people, and of course I had to explain the 14 day rant to him.
I don't even know if the 14 days is accurate, but whatever.
What was funny is I was talking to a coworker at school today who used to work at a meatpacking/steak place locally as maintenance, and he was telling me that they had really high turnover (personnel churn) because their timeframe on meat due to FDA regs really put stress on everyone in the industry. So he's standing there waving his hands around telling me "You've got 14 days...14 days, and if you don't process the meat in that time..." and I just couldn't keep my shit together. I kept picturing Furor standing in a meatpacking plant screaming at people, and of course I had to explain the 14 day rant to him.
I don't even know if the 14 days is accurate, but whatever.
Blazin
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Sounds like a cool career can you expound more? What type of project do you work on? Do people hire you saying " we need x footage" or you become part of a larger project?
Feien
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It changes from project to project. I get hired mostly for documentary work, but also commercials, narrative, events, corporate stuff (though the last one is my least favorite, so I tend to avoid it). Sometimes I'll get hired just as a camera operator, sometimes I'm brought in as a director of photography where basically I come up with the look along with the director/producer. Though most of the times, I'm hired to produce the whole thing (come up with the story, produce the commercial or segment, edit it, etc). I also sell some stock footage.
On the side, I've been working on trying to get a new business started. Sort of like a travel/outdoors blog aimed at photo/video hobbyists. It's on a very early stage though, but hopefully will have something to show for it at the beginning of next year.
Here's a video I did related to that if interested.
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Where do you work?
Prostate cancer center in a large Urology practice
What do you do? (Title/keywords)
Radiation therapist, currently treating prostate & bladder cancers and bone mets. At my previous job treated everything: brain, breast, head and neck, etc etc etc.
What field/industry?
Healthcare
Wages?
80k/yr
Bonuses
401k w/match
Benefits?
Good health insurance, 12 minutes from my house (no more hour commute into Chicago), easy
How long have you been there?
Less than a year, most of my experience is at a large university hospital.
Prostate cancer center in a large Urology practice
What do you do? (Title/keywords)
Radiation therapist, currently treating prostate & bladder cancers and bone mets. At my previous job treated everything: brain, breast, head and neck, etc etc etc.
What field/industry?
Healthcare
Wages?
80k/yr
Bonuses
401k w/match
Benefits?
Good health insurance, 12 minutes from my house (no more hour commute into Chicago), easy
How long have you been there?
Less than a year, most of my experience is at a large university hospital.
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Big_w_powah
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Where do you work?
Software Company
What do you do? (Title/keywords)
Systems Support (Server/Desktop/SQL/Networking)
What field/industry?
IT
Wages?
around 40k/yr--I'm supposed to be up for a major promotion at the end of the year? My boss says he didnt know who he was hiring.
Bonuses
401k Match at 50% of contribution, bonus based on division performance, around $300 per year for "whatever" as a bonus for working here
Benefits?
Exceptional. Dirt cheap health/dental/vision. Free life, free various other benefits. More than average vacation (start at 3 weeks vacay+5 days personal, goes up to like 7 weeks vacay or some shit)
How long have you been there?
6 months
Honestly, I feel underpaid as shit right now for what I do. Long hours, lots of travel within state to perform server installs. Those are long ass hours too. Understaffed department. I have learned a ton in the last 6 months though about stuff I never touched before. I touch almost everything IT related every day, and its always fresh work. Theres always a TON of new stuff to touch. Part of my job is supporting the IT side of our software that we sale. Thats always fun too.
I'm not looking to leave as I want to see what they do at the end of the year, but maybe after that if they shaft me?
Software Company
What do you do? (Title/keywords)
Systems Support (Server/Desktop/SQL/Networking)
What field/industry?
IT
Wages?
around 40k/yr--I'm supposed to be up for a major promotion at the end of the year? My boss says he didnt know who he was hiring.
Bonuses
401k Match at 50% of contribution, bonus based on division performance, around $300 per year for "whatever" as a bonus for working here
Benefits?
Exceptional. Dirt cheap health/dental/vision. Free life, free various other benefits. More than average vacation (start at 3 weeks vacay+5 days personal, goes up to like 7 weeks vacay or some shit)
How long have you been there?
6 months
Honestly, I feel underpaid as shit right now for what I do. Long hours, lots of travel within state to perform server installs. Those are long ass hours too. Understaffed department. I have learned a ton in the last 6 months though about stuff I never touched before. I touch almost everything IT related every day, and its always fresh work. Theres always a TON of new stuff to touch. Part of my job is supporting the IT side of our software that we sale. Thats always fun too.
I'm not looking to leave as I want to see what they do at the end of the year, but maybe after that if they shaft me?
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Blazin
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