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darkpaw 07-13-2003 04:20 PM

I'm a software tester by day, and a web designer/programmer by night.

On the weekends, you may catch me slurping fresh coffee through to the small hours and churning out various AppleScripts and websites. And posting on here...

Phil St. Romain 07-13-2003 07:57 PM

I put web design but I dabble in a lot of other things on my computer. But it's web design that brings in a bit of income, along with a few other jobs I have unrelated to computers.

saint.duo 07-13-2003 08:50 PM

other...
 
I chose other, not because I didn't fit those categories, but that I fit too many of them.

I believe my business cards say "Sales Representative"... but that doesn't explain nearly what I do anymore. I believe a more proper title now would probably be "Apple Product Professional"; or dare I say "Non-Apple Employed Mac Genius". ;)

I work for an Apple Specialist (mac only, sales, support, service), and do sales, tech support over the phone and in the store, and repair. I manage our in-house Xserve (which runs our web site, email, listserv, filemaker server, and a few other goodies) and a good chunk of our network. My coworkers say that I bleed six colors, and leak RDF rays.

At home, I program, and do basic web design.

Craig R. Arko 07-13-2003 09:08 PM

I put in system/network administration, although I think 'all of the above' may be the most correct answer.

Except maybe graphic artist/designer. We don't seem to get along very well. :D

anthlover 07-13-2003 09:38 PM

Doctorate in Developmental Pychology
 
RE: I have Doctorate in Developmental Pychology 1996....

I had been playing with Computers, helping people do their Stats, when I was in Grad School etc.

However, after I got my Doctorate I noticed that although Universitys get an awful lot of money from Parents and Students (they started playing a nasty game of Adjunct, that is hiring out Profs. by the class (for 1 to 4k per [most do not teach more then 6 a year]).

**** Anyway ended up finding work as a computer consultant with a trio of Publishing Companies that wanted to Abolish typewriters.... Use the Internet, email, have computers, link there offices together, have websites etc. All things much more standard now.
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Now I work as a Systems Manager at Continuum Health partenrs (an amalgam of several Hospital Chains in NYC). Their Radiology departments have their own IT deparmtent because they read all their Stuides off Dual Monitor Computer Systems. PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications Systems). The Read all their Reports into a Speech Recognition System. And all the Reports travel via the net back to a centralized Radilogy Information Systems where all the Patient Data and Scheduling occurs.
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O Yeah. Apple Person @ Heart first Computer was Xerox Memowriter, ok First Real Computer was a IIe. At the Office we use Sun, Dell, Compaq, Vax, well Alphas now I helped retire the vax when I started (and a few Macs [some of the important Rads insist on having Macs around]).

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Mikey-San 07-13-2003 09:44 PM

I'm the Apple support rep for Virginia Commonwealth University.

In other words, I'm the Maytag Man. ;-D

Before that, I worked at a Mac shop here in Richmond (VA). So far, I'm the only one who's clicked "service/repair". I think saint.duo's a service tech, too . . . Right? Ditto tlarkin, I believe.

WurdLuvrGrl 07-13-2003 10:54 PM

What I Do
 
I picked "other"..

I manage the business end of my boyfriends drywall business. My card says I'm an adminstrative assistant. I do occasionally get to do some gruntwork (hammers and nails and brooms, oh, my!) when called upon, but we don't really 'work' well together so I don't get called upon often. We've lived together for nearly 10 years, so you'd think I'd be used to him by now. But when he's working, when he puts on his 'I'm the boss' airs for his "minions", I can't stand to be around him.

But I digress. Mostly I wrestle with this computer and printer, smile for clients, and fire people.

In my free time I usually do homework for my criminal justice degree (although lately I've plunged headstrong into the Mac world, which feels kinda like I've broken into the Double-Super-Secret Boys Club... and no one has found out yet). I'm concentrating in forensics and have added a psychology minor. It's incredibly interesting stuff but I can't wait to finish so that I can apply all this knowledge to something greater than all this*.

~Brandie

(edit:: *not that this isn't great, though)

vancenase 07-13-2003 11:52 PM

graduate student in biochemistry ... just made the switch from PC to APPLE!

G4Man ... how about you get me a job when i graduate? :) what types of biotech are present in the midwest?

AHunter3 07-14-2003 12:03 AM

FileMaker solutions designer. Database geek.

Mac user since the 512Ke and System 3. Current axe is an accelerated WallStreet PowerBook with MacOS 8.1, 8.6, 9.0, 9.2, and Puma (10.1.5) on different partitions.

lerkfish 07-14-2003 09:24 AM

wha? so far I'm one of only three graphic artists?

thought there'd be more.


my work, if you're interested
I'm always available for freelance....heh.
I just had another illustration in Challenging Destiny , and I get to do the next color cover of the canadian scifi mag.
(this job pays less than $20, but it combines my two interests: science fiction/fantasy and art)

:)

lerkfish 07-14-2003 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Craig R. Arko
I put in system/network administration, although I think 'all of the above' may be the most correct answer.

Except maybe graphic artist/designer. We don't seem to get along very well. :D
I dunno, you and I seem to get along ok. :D

Craig R. Arko 07-14-2003 09:29 AM

The exception that proves the rule, Lerk! :)

meancode 07-14-2003 02:19 PM

um i cant chgeck multipe things :(

i guess i would mainly be a web programmer/designer. thats my "other" job tho as my day job consisnts of FileMaker Pro work. i also do system admin/networking at work. fun fun.

vonleigh 07-14-2003 02:32 PM

lerk, I'm also a graphic artist (or at least in the process):

http://illusionart.com/pi/

I do web programming/admin/webmaster/any other odd job I can get. I'm studying drawing and illustration.

For fun I mess with computers, sketch/draw/paint and lately write some tutorials (in spanish, need to translate to english some time):

<http://caracasmug.org/>

(it's under tutorials, "aprendiendo Unix para Mac OS X" or learning unix for mac os x)


v

tlarkin 07-14-2003 03:26 PM

Well, technically I am a bit of an artist. I went to school to be an animator. Unfortunately I make a better living fixing computers than I would drawing cartoons. I did go to school for it, and I never took a single computer class in my life. Kind of funny how things work out I guess.

saint.duo 07-14-2003 08:19 PM

That's one of the things I do, yes.

Quote:

Originally posted by Mikey-San
I think saint.duo's a service tech, too . . . Right?

lerkfish 07-15-2003 01:36 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by vonleigh
lerk, I'm also a graphic artist (or at least in the process):

http://illusionart.com/pi/

I do web programming/admin/webmaster/any other odd job I can get. I'm studying drawing and illustration.

For fun I mess with computers, sketch/draw/paint and lately write some tutorials (in spanish, need to translate to english some time):

<http://caracasmug.org/>

(it's under tutorials, "aprendiendo Unix para Mac OS X" or learning unix for mac os x)


v
whoa...really nice stuff! color me impressed! though I'd reduce the size of your thumbnails, that index page takes forever to load, even on broadband (I sampled just one of your thumbnails at almost 200k!)

vonleigh 07-15-2003 02:44 AM

BTW, I also saw your page before posting and I really liked your loose illustrative style, some things are really exact and others have more of a flair, very nice stuff. Because of this your opinion values very highly, thank you for your kind words lerkfish.

On the page, thanks for letting me know. I threw together a quick php hack to get my pictures to show (I put the new pictures in a dir and the page makes the thumbnails and whatnot next time it loads).

I'll try reducing the thumbnail_size and save it with lesser quality, see how that works.

v

P.D: fixed the code, i had gotten mixed up the rez of the thumb and the mid, also got rid of a few bugs. The details are still huge, but at the mid and thumbnails are now much smaller.

tlarkin 07-25-2003 05:18 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Mikey-San
I'm the Apple support rep for Virginia Commonwealth University.

In other words, I'm the Maytag Man. ;-D

Before that, I worked at a Mac shop here in Richmond (VA). So far, I'm the only one who's clicked "service/repair". I think saint.duo's a service tech, too . . . Right? Ditto tlarkin, I believe.
I checked the technician box. Technically my actual title is Lead technician. Isn't service/repair and technician almost the same thing? I guess you could be a nail technician or something at a beauty salon. Me and 4 other guys run the service dept. for my company. However, I am the only one certified to work on apple products, thus I am mainly the apple tech. I learned on PCs, and had to take up macs when our last apple guy quit. I don't mind however, I like macs, I like PCs as well. Infact I like most electronic gadjets, that serve some kind of good or neat service

sketch916 08-08-2003 10:33 AM

I'm a Graphic Artist for a local newspaper, I also do some troubleshooting/repair work for them.


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