What does everyone do for a living?

[benclimbing]

Traffic Control Design Specialist. I use CAD to create traffic control plans for major construction projects.

 

[AustinC0222]

Hydrologic Technician, Archery tech part time

 

[timberland]

In those classified projects, was any of it such wildly advanced flight technology that people would not believe it?

I've always been really interested in The aerospace industry and often wonder what the most advanced flight tech there is that's being worked on

Google TR3B

 

[hoooogan]

There you Go! Keep At It Mang! That's pretty much how I started as well. Support on the phones.

So if you put in the work, pick the right tech stacks to learn and choose wisely... you'll get to those six figures eventually. Probably sooner than you'd think to, since you're starting now in today's age.

Was 23yo, just starting to begin knocking-out Community College courses... when my Employer offered to bump me up to Software Engineer up from Tech Support, where THEY DIRECTLY would be my mentors.

In hindsight a TOTAL win-win for them. As they could then "mold me" properly. And they didn't have to pay me what they'd be paying someone with a degree, and they got MUCH BETTER product from it anyway since it was me, so they made out like bandits.

So, since my spouse (of the time) was in the Dental Hygiene program, the game plan was, I'd stop CC, focus on this... she'd continue on in that, then later on I'd go back for schooling/degree. (Never ended up going back, we got divorce, and I really didn't need it, anyway.)

Lotta people that graduate with a degree in Computer Science? Wow.. Just.. Wow.... I HAVE to wonder who the HEYELL... is handing out those pieces of paper (the degree) to 'em. SMDH. (Certainly not all of them, but you'd be surprised how many!)

As a test, he had me write a Cost Recovery Module piece for the Legal Time/Billing software they were making a the time. Law firm's have these devices on machines like copiers and such, and whenever they goto make copies, they'd have to punch-in whose case it's about, so they can track and make Cost charges on that clients bill.

Well, this lil piece would read-in the data files that device makes, and make batch entries out of them which could then be posted into our Billing software.

Worked great. So then they had me tackle an A/R piece-part where when they'd entered payments on our side, this module could reach over into Great Plains Accounting Software and make an Accounts Receivable entry into their side from it. Reducing work and possibly hand-entry errors.

And OMG!!... just before moving up into Coding.. we were going to begin selling Great Plains Accounting software as well... Prez walks over... and set a stack of manuals about 9" tall onto my desk! F...M...L...!!!

It's a special kinda Hell taking a 23yo and now making them have to support/explain to somebody how to set up a Chart of Accounts for their organization. WHOO!! Talk about crash-course in accounting principles.. Eek!!!

But eventually they sold-off that Time/Billing software and focused on the Docket/Calendaring side, and we turned it into the #1 product in that space. Still is today.

Hell ya, that's an awesome story! I know we used to use great plains at the old company, pre-merger. Not sure if we still do. Our small company merged with a large company which then merged with another large company. It's been chaos ever since.

I've been super lucky with an amazing upper management team that supports and fights for our growth and work/life balance. I was just coasting as one of the Support Team leads before I was pulled to be a pseudo PM to oversee transitioning our physical transcoding infrastructure to AWS. ~9 months later when that was wrapping up, is when a co-worker on the current Dev team said "we need him" and the rest is history. As always, jumping into the current role for the first time was like drinking from a firehose. We have since absorbed a couple other teams, so we got firehosed each of those times as well. But, I was able to crest the six mark a couple years into this team. Seize the opportunities! Can't imagine working anywhere else.

 

[HFBPA889]

Concrete Ready-Mix Specialist

 

[RyanS612]

Police officer in CO for 15 years. Pays six figures, unlimited OT if you need it, and the paid time off has allowed me to take off all of September for as long as I can remember. Snyder isn’t lying when he says police and fire jobs allow you to hunt a lot

 

[TheGDog]

Hell ya, that's an awesome story! I know we used to use great plains at the old company, pre-merger. Not sure if we still do. Our small company merged with a large company which then merged with another large company. It's been chaos ever since.

I've been super lucky with an amazing upper management team that supports and fights for our growth and work/life balance. I was just coasting as one of the Support Team leads before I was pulled to be a pseudo PM to oversee transitioning our physical transcoding infrastructure to AWS. ~9 months later when that was wrapping up, is when a co-worker on the current Dev team said "we need him" and the rest is history. As always, jumping into the current role for the first time was like drinking from a firehose. We have since absorbed a couple other teams, so we got firehosed each of those times as well. But, I was able to crest the six mark a couple years into this team. Seize the opportunities! Can't imagine working anywhere else.

"Pimpin' Ain't Easy!" Right-on man for cresting six!

Yeah for the moment, I'm keeping alive the legacy system. Since there's big firms still using it. There's already a cloud offering, and some have made the move already, but functional parity with the legacy system isn't quite all the way there just yet. And it takes firms a while to move off of stuff. Especially like when they've had the system for a long time.

I know of at least one installation, and I'm sure there are more, that has over 9 million events in the DB. Eek!

 

[Elkslut]

Machinist, Programer. I make landing gear and float parts for small aircrafts.

 

[Sunshine40]

Union carpenter in Chicago.

Local 951 here brother!

 

[yakuza]

I'm in Cybersecurity.

 

[Long Cut]

Police officer in CO for 15 years. Pays six figures, unlimited OT if you need it, and the paid time off has allowed me to take off all of September for as long as I can remember. Snyder isn’t lying when he says police and fire jobs allow you to hunt a lot

The bold statement is completely dependent on the State you work as well as the Department.

I’m a Firefighter/AEMT/Hazmat Tech & Fire Investigator for a Metro Atlanta Fire Department. I get 4.62 hours of comp time per paycheck (paid bi-weekly).

We work 24 hours on, 48 hours off which averages out to 56 hours per week. We also do not get paid overtime unless we work over 56 hours per week.

Sure, 1 shift off gets us 5 days off, but most of us are chronically short staffed. Meaning you’re either calling out “sick” or having to do a shift swap. So a co-worker covers your shift and in return you work one of their shifts for them.

The Western FD’s (Texas, Colorado etc..) have it significantly better than any East Coast FD.

 

[eli425]

I do lead generation/marketing for local small businesses and help setup CRMs. Nothing exciting but pays for the hunting gear!

 

[littlewolf]

Curious.... How many of you guys use your love of expensive hunting trips and expensive hunting gear to fuel your motivation for work and achieving a high paying job to support it?

If I could receive a decent wage, retirement, PTO and health benefits for digging holes in the ground all day.... And I mean that literally... I would rather do that than nearly anything I can think of that I'm qualified for.

Unfortunately, I like expensive hobbies and I need great health insurance. So I keep the career I have.

Similar boat here - doing IT work indoors to support all my hobbies outdoors. Would much prefer to be doing the hobbies full time. I will never understand folks who say they wouldn't know what to do with themselves in retirement. I'd be in the woods somewhere hunting, fishing, camping, canoeing, etc every day.

 

[jml49]

Retired union electrician

 

[GabeEsco]

Switchgear auditor, AWS

 

[Tim14167]

Technical Service Manager.
I manage personalities

 

[TMac96]

Sell natural gas to LDCs and utilities. Origination focused

 

[Big Sexy]

I work for a property managment company as a Construction Project Manager in good old Washington DC amd Northen VA. If it happens in one of about 50 buildings, I am involved in one way or another.

 

[Willie IV]

Self employed cabinet and furniture maker. One man shop and I like it that way. Also have a small black angus commercial cow/calf operation and sell direct farm to table beef. Plus everything that goes along with owning 240 acres of farm ground in Iowa. Always busy

 

[cam813]

Fire Marshal