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I know this topic has been here before but there are many new users. What do you do for a living, or what do you plan on doing for a living.

I'm still in highschool, going to college next year double majoring in IT with a Network Specialist Concentration and Security Specialist Concentration (going for a BS for both; they will be separate degrees) Hopefully this will get me off to a good start.

Right now, I pay for my bmw working at Staples.
 
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I am currently a first year medical student at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. I am spending big bucks to become a physician when I grow up. I paid for my BMW with money from my medical school loans. There's nothing like living on borrowed money.

I graduated magna cum laude from Furman University in May, 2003 with a BS in biochemistry.
 
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im currently attending a technical school for electronics type of crap and uhm i pay for my gasoline by working for my mom's food business, i also do the maintenance for the 3 homes she is renting out...
 
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I cut to the chase for college, went to Devry in Atl for my BSEET degree.
Landed me a job with GE Medical Systems as a field engineer in the midsouth area working on diagnostic equipment. ...i gotta get outa here.
I bought my car for $1.
 
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Outside specification/sales of hazardous lighting fixtures for offshore and land rigs......currently paying for my BMW, but in the market for someone else to pay for a new 6 Series Convertible........... [headbang] can I have a "hoohah!!!"
 
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xLibelle said:
I cut to the chase for college, went to Devry in Atl for my BSEET degree.
Landed me a job with GE Medical Systems as a field engineer in the midsouth area working on diagnostic equipment. ...i gotta get outa here.
I bought my car for $1.
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Ah-ha! I see I have a friendly competitor on here. [chair] I work for Siemens in the Health Services division as a Software Engineer.

I won't hold your profession against you, though. I like to leave shop talk at work. [hihi] ....besides, you've been posting on here for a long time. You're a good person. [:)]
 
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Outside specification/sales of hazardous lighting fixtures for offshore and land rigs......currently paying for my BMW, but in the market for someone else to pay for a new 6 Series Convertible........... [headbang] can I have a "hoohah!!!"
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Let me take a guess - Intrinsically Safe Class I Div I ????

You didn't sell anything to that rig that went BOOM a few days ago, did ya'?
 
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I work for an Enterprise Systems reseller (>1 TB disk arrays, >4-way Intel boxes, big Unix boxes) as a pre-sales engineer (talking tech with the customer), post-sales (OK Wise guy, now make all those shiney promises come true) and teach classes on HP StorageWorks arrays.

All the above was learned OJT (on the job training), my BS in Engineering Science from Penn State doesn't apply at all.

In the computer service world a hands-on degree is much more valuable than a BS (my 0.02 at least).
 
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I work for a small (50 employees) process controls engineering company. What's THAT, you said? We design computer systems and write software to control the machines that make the food you eat. If you have used Carnation evaporated milk, Kraft cheese products, Nestle Baby Formula, Nestle Novelty Ice Cream, or bought dairy products from Florida's largest food store chain, our systems have touched your life.

Small company = many hats. On any given day I am VP Information Systems, System Architect, VB/SQL/ASP programmer, electrical engineer (I have degrees in Comp Sci and EE), project manager and sales engineer. I usually just tell people I am a systems engineer, makes it easier.

Bear - small world - We are a reseller/integrator for Siemens Automation Products (S7 PLCs). I was in NYC last week at the Siemens Exciter train at Grand Central Station.

Contrary to someone's recent post, I *do not* work for BMW!
 
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I work for a small (50 employees) process controls engineering company. What's THAT, you said? We design computer systems and write software to control the machines that make the food you eat. If you have used Carnation evaporated milk, Kraft cheese products, Nestle Baby Formula, Nestle Novelty Ice Cream, or bought dairy products from Florida's largest food store chain, our systems have touched your life.

Small company = many hats. On any given day I am VP Information Systems, System Architect, VB/SQL/ASP programmer, electrical engineer (I have degrees in Comp Sci and EE), project manager and sales engineer. I usually just tell people I am a systems engineer, makes it easier.

Bear - small world - We are a reseller/integrator for Siemens Automation Products (S7 PLCs). I was in NYC last week at the Siemens Exciter train at Grand Central Station.

Contrary to someone's recent post, I *do not* work for BMW!
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That's very interesting, Kirby - your job is very similar to my dad's. My dad used to work for Fluor Daniel (was a big engineering company at the time - ever heard of it?) and one of the projects he worked on was writing the database and system for new Frito Lay automated lines his company was building - so if you've ever eaten any Doritos, Chee-tohs, Tostitos, Sun Chips, etc, etc, in the past 10 years or so, then my dad's software has touched your life. Now my dad works for a smaller automation company that builds automated manufacturing lines, and he writes the databases for them (and VB/SQL/ASP and Crystal Reports). Some of the most notable projects he and his company have worked on in the past few years include the Borg Warner assembly line for the Hummer H2 transfer cases, a Ciba Vision contact lens line, those Mach III shaving razors, and a line that builds and tests the high pressure fuel injectors for Caterpillar diesel engines. It's so awesome to go into the shop at his work and watch these automated assembly lines be built and tested.

My dad also worked for Siemens Semiconductors when we lived in Munich.
 
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I work for an Enterprise Systems reseller (>1 TB disk arrays, >4-way Intel boxes, big Unix boxes) as a pre-sales engineer (talking tech with the customer), post-sales (OK Wise guy, now make all those shiney promises come true) and teach classes on HP StorageWorks arrays.

All the above was learned OJT (on the job training), my BS in Engineering Science from Penn State doesn't apply at all.

In the computer service world a hands-on degree is much more valuable than a BS (my 0.02 at least).
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Thats why my college is so credible, it IS a very hands on college from day 1. You get the hands on experience (senior year, a few of the credits is actually working for a company which you get paid for). Plus you get the BS degree for taking the other non-related classes with the penn state logo attached. I'm not going to pennstate but the school has an affiliation ($$$) with them. So it's a very very nice school.
 
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Kirby said:
Let me take a guess - Intrinsically Safe Class I Div I ????

You didn't sell anything to that rig that went BOOM a few days ago, did ya'?
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you got it Kirby..............almost every rig in the Gulf has some kind of my lights.......and no Don, you cant have as much fun as me......today I went to a rig christening (remember the picture I posted awhile back).......the champagne bottle did not shatter.........oops......jinx.........they had to get a crane and come around and pick up the bottle with a chain and try again.......second time charm......I've been on rigs and a fire starts, did a somersot on a helideck landing, fell down in the galley, crane got stuck when I'm in basket, been lost and cant find my way out....oh yeah, all of us guys are having a barrel of laughs...... [fake]
 
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That's very interesting, Kirby - your job is very similar to my dad's. My dad used to work for Fluor Daniel (was a big engineering company at the time - ever heard of it?) and one of the projects he worked on was writing the database and system for new Frito Lay automated lines his company was building - so if you've ever eaten any Doritos, Chee-tohs, Tostitos, Sun Chips, etc, etc, in the past 10 years or so, then my dad's software has touched your life. Now my dad works for a smaller automation company that builds automated manufacturing lines, and he writes the databases for them (and VB/SQL/ASP and Crystal Reports). Some of the most notable projects he and his company have worked on in the past few years include the Borg Warner assembly line for the Hummer H2 transfer cases, a Ciba Vision contact lens line, those Mach III shaving razors, and a line that builds and tests the high pressure fuel injectors for Caterpillar diesel engines. It's so awesome to go into the shop at his work and watch these automated assembly lines be built and tested.

My dad also worked for Siemens Semiconductors when we lived in Munich.
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Yes, I have heard of Fluor Daniel, we've done upgrades or modifications to one or two systems they originally built/installed , but none of those that you mention. Did he work at a Frito Lay plant in Modesto, CA? There is a huge Frito Lay facility next to a client of mine in Modesto. His work is very similar to what I do. The thing I like about it is that it's never boring, always new technology to play with.
 
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Currently my title is Information Systems Manager, but I'm a Information Security Consultant at heart. Keeping the hackers out and bustin' the bad guys is SO much fun (not to mention a never-ending task).
 
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Kirby said:
Yes, I have heard of Fluor Daniel, we've done upgrades or modifications to one or two systems they originally built/installed , but none of those that you mention. Did he work at a Frito Lay plant in Modesto, CA? There is a huge Frito Lay facility next to a client of mine in Modesto. His work is very similar to what I do. The thing I like about it is that it's never boring, always new technology to play with.
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I'm pretty sure my dad never went to a plant in Modesto, but I could be wrong. I want to say that most of the plants he went to were in the midwest, or in the center of the country, but it's been a long time - I was little when he was working on these lines. Remember when they changed the Doritos from "Nacho Cheese" to "Nacho Cheesier?" They changed the name at the same time that the lines my dad was working on started up, so it's been a while ago.

I find his work to be pretty fascinating - anything manufacturing related just amazes me, and the automated lines and robots that his company builds are just awesome.
 
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