Whats your real job? [Archive] - PlanetSide Universe

SuperMorto

2011-10-04, 01:41 PM

Hi all,

I was wondering, between trolling me on the forums and playing Planetside, what do you guys get up to for jobs?

Im currently running my own business as a self employed electrician working in the north east of the UQ (UK).

Re-Wired Electrical Services.

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/281242_139502232804180_100886909999046_253069_8035 456_n.jpg

Been on my own for 5 months now after being made redundant by my last employer.

And all I can say is its fooking great being your own boss!!!

DviddLeff

2011-10-04, 01:54 PM

Science teacher; ages 11 to 16.

SuperMorto

2011-10-04, 01:59 PM

Science teacher; ages 11 to 16.

I couldn't do it, or I would be locked up!

Crator

2011-10-04, 02:05 PM

Hey, that's cool. Profitable? I'm an IT Systems Engineer/Operations Supervisor.

SuperMorto

2011-10-04, 02:20 PM

Hey, that's cool. Profitable? I'm an IT Systems Engineer/Operations Supervisor.

Sounds good, loads of desk work then? ;)

And yea I seem to be making a small fortune lol, but still early days. Big problem is people have to ring you for work :)

Ghryphen

2011-10-04, 02:22 PM

Programmer at DreamDinners.com

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/281242_139502232804180_100886909999046_253069_8035 456_n.jpg

This pic makes me think of this http://youtu.be/gNHy5ttfTak

SuperMorto

2011-10-04, 02:28 PM

Programmer at DreamDinners.com

This pic makes me think of this http://youtu.be/gNHy5ttfTak

More like this? Rewired (VEVO Presents: Kasabian - Live from Leicester) - YouTube

And I want my free first dinner!

Hamma

2011-10-04, 02:46 PM

Windows Systems Administrator :D

SuperMorto

2011-10-04, 02:48 PM

Windows Systems Administrator :D

For Microsoft?

duomaxwl

2011-10-04, 03:19 PM

Domino's delivery guy. =\ But eventual music teacher.

SuperMorto

2011-10-04, 03:28 PM

Domino's delivery guy. = But eventual music teacher.

You may of just landed yourself a job I am in need of a music teacher? How much do you charge an hour? And i mean for an over the internet hour?

Also nothing wrong with a delivery guy, we all need pizza!

DviddLeff

2011-10-04, 03:31 PM

Especially Dominos pizza; its fucking fantastic.

SuperMorto

2011-10-04, 03:37 PM

Especially Dominos pizza; its fucking fantastic.

That is true!

Ghryphen

2011-10-04, 04:08 PM

For Microsoft?

No, Rackspace.

He administers windows for racks -NSFW (http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/2009/7/70%20Window%20Boobs.jpg)

SuperMorto

2011-10-04, 04:10 PM

No, Rackspace.

He administers windows for racks -NSFW (http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/2009/7/70%20Window%20Boobs.jpg)

I want that job!

Hezzy

2011-10-04, 04:34 PM

I work as a train station supervisor and I'm currently re-training as a Special Constable with the British Transport Police.

No, Rackspace.

He administers windows for racks -NSFW (http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/2009/7/70%20Window%20Boobs.jpg)

Surely that would mean he goes around placing Windows on racks... How does he get them to stay on?

Hamma

2011-10-04, 04:37 PM

:brow:

Baneblade

2011-10-04, 04:42 PM

Tacks obviously.

I am currently a Cab Driver, but that shit will be changing asap.

Crator

2011-10-04, 05:05 PM

Sounds good, loads of desk work then? ;)

And yea I seem to be making a small fortune lol, but still early days. Big problem is people have to ring you for work :)

Scripting, server hardware troubleshooting/replacement/installation (involves traveling but our ops guy usually goes), SCOM/SCCM engineer, ticketing system administrator, workstation/server image engineer, keeping up with current tech, virus protection admin., um, there's more. I'm just tired of thinking of it :P

Rbstr

2011-10-04, 05:49 PM

Graduate Student/Researcher.
I do stuff to make better batteries and take classes(I get paid for that!).

Didn't we just have this thread like a couple months ago?

firecrackerNC

2011-10-04, 07:45 PM

College student/BestBuy. Sucksss but oh well

Lonehunter

2011-10-04, 07:57 PM

I work the front desk for the largest outdoor adventure resort in the states, or at least the eastern ones. Mainly a Whitewater Rafting company with 1,500 acres of cabin rentals, but plenty other fun stuff to do.

http://www.aceraft.com/

Basically a concierge, check in clerk, and reservationist all at once.

But after working with people face to face or over the phone for 7 years, I'm ready for some plain ole physical labor away from the stupid tourists.

Strygun

2011-10-04, 11:47 PM

Diplomat of the United States of America and officer in the U.S. Foreign Service.

...which is why I rarely have time to play games anymore :(

Traak

2011-10-05, 03:09 AM

Tacks obviously.
I am currently a Cab Driver, but that shit will be changing asap.

Why? Are they making the turban mandatory?

Baneblade

2011-10-05, 03:25 AM

Why? Are they making the turban mandatory?

Actually here it is mostly Ethiopians.

Traak

2011-10-05, 04:09 AM

Actually here it is mostly Ethiopians.

Oh. Then your nose is too wide to fit into the norm? Ethiopians have noses Hollywoodites pay buckets of cash to get.

Traak

2011-10-05, 04:19 AM

Diplomat of the United States of America and officer in the U.S. Foreign Service.

...which is why I rarely have time to play games anymore :(

If you're in Iraq, did you get my email for usage-algorithm-based mitigation of utilization of cellular telephones for IED detonations?

Or I can send it to you in a PM, or email if you want.

Malorn

2011-10-05, 05:29 AM

Software Engineer

TheRagingGerbil

2011-10-05, 10:55 AM

Electrical Engineer.

Quovatis

2011-10-05, 11:40 AM

Astronomer

Raka Maru

2011-10-05, 01:00 PM

Programmer, SQL Server, C#, Xcode.

Evilmp

2011-10-05, 01:59 PM

Graduate Student/Researcher.
I do stuff to make better batteries and take classes(I get paid for that!).

Didn't we just have this thread like a couple months ago?

http://www.catherineomega.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/idiocracy_money.jpg

BUGGER

2011-10-05, 05:49 PM

Retail, Home Cheapo. Want a HD credit card?

Peacemaker

2011-10-05, 07:29 PM

Operating Engineer

http://www.iuoe.org/

I.E. I play in really big sand boxes with really big Tonka toys.

BUGGER

2011-10-05, 07:40 PM

Operating Engineer

http://www.iuoe.org/

I.E. I play in really big sand boxes with really big Tonka toys.

Peacmaker - Subtitle: Sandcastle-maker.

Strygun

2011-10-05, 10:14 PM

If you're in Iraq, did you get my email for usage-algorithm-based mitigation of utilization of cellular telephones for IED detonations?

Or I can send it to you in a PM, or email if you want.

You're kidding, right? There are thousands of people in Iraq right now.

Also, no, I'm not in Iraq. yet.

Traak

2011-10-06, 12:08 AM

You're kidding, right? There are thousands of people in Iraq right now.

Also, no, I'm not in Iraq. yet.

Oh, your statement sounded like you were THE ambassador somewhere, not a faceless drone in some great Embassy hive.

Baneblade

2011-10-06, 03:08 AM

If he were, he wouldn't be permitted to participate in forums the government doesn't control lol.

Traak

2011-10-06, 04:52 AM

I'd rather not say.

Crazyduckling

2011-10-06, 03:17 PM

College Student/Part Time Auditorium Technician.

Sirisian

2011-10-06, 03:55 PM

Another programmer, graduate student. Server admin for my university's printing system and related software and TA for a CS lab. Easiest jobs ever.

Firefly

2011-10-06, 06:54 PM

I work for Bioware-Mythic.

Peacemaker

2011-10-06, 07:34 PM

Peacmaker - Subtitle: Sandcastle-maker.

Ya know, despite all my antics... I never did get one of those sub names on this forum -_-....

MrLoopsX

2011-10-06, 09:35 PM

Ow i'm just Barman

Graywolves

2011-10-06, 10:53 PM

I'm looking for a job.

Strygun

2011-10-06, 11:57 PM

Oh, your statement sounded like you were THE ambassador somewhere, not a faceless drone in some great Embassy hive.

Nope, not an ambassador...yet. Give me another 20 years or so.

But I'm also not quite a faceless drone in an Embassy hive.

Tcakes

2011-10-07, 07:43 PM

EMT in las vegas

Crator

2011-10-07, 08:33 PM

hahaha, I'm in IT as well... figures that's why we usually see eye to eye.

:D

CutterJohn

2011-10-08, 12:46 AM

Maintenance at a factory. Pumps and motor controller and valves oh my!

Baneblade

2011-10-08, 01:01 AM

EMT in las vegas

I met a Medic West Paramedic who went to work as a cab driver part time. something about not getting enough money.

Tcakes

2011-10-08, 01:22 AM

ya, the pay here can suck if you dont work any over time, or if your not in the fd. im not complaining though. just glad i have a job currently.

xmodum

2011-10-15, 11:31 AM

This was me a few months ago. Transport for a classified organization in Baghdad Iraq, Civilian attire, beards (Well my attempt at a white trash goatee at least) and H&K M416 instead of the standard M4, Sig Sauer P228 instead of the M9. Up armored SUV's, Sedans, and trucks. Twas good times indeed.
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Now I'm back in the states.....doing pretty much the same thing, for a Security company here in Boise. Without Iraqi's, Armor, or weapons though....just transporting Mental patients between hospitals, running routes to check out businesses we have contracts with to make sure they aren't broken into, and standing guard at some of them.

BUGGER

2011-10-15, 01:46 PM

I met a Medic West Paramedic who went to work as a cab driver part time. something about not getting enough money.

I had a friend who was an EMT of sorts, 12.50 an hour aint pretty....suppose it aint bad if they get to sleep or watch movies.

Vegas, though, I bet that's every EMT's goal....imagine the calls.... *insert any Hangover plotline*

Infektion

2011-10-20, 03:58 PM

IT Server Technician - Studying for CCNA. I got a small cisco lab in my office.

Traak

2011-10-20, 10:59 PM

Nope, not an ambassador...yet. Give me another 20 years or so.

But I'm also not quite a faceless drone in an Embassy hive.

Anyway, here's that idea for IED cell phone use mitigation. (http://cellphoneied.blogspot.com)

Traak

2011-10-23, 12:56 AM

Civilian attire, beards (Well my attempt at a white trash goatee at least)

I used to laugh at that. Isn't the first place Hadjis look if they want to find mercs or special forces, is for that telltale facial hair?

You aren't part of the cool (Iraqi) kids club until you can shave with sewing thread.

xmodum

2011-10-23, 08:06 PM

The point of it was that when we pass by, if there's an IED waiting with a trigger man, they see us and don't know who we are, don't know if we're army or not, and hesitate, and we get out of the danger area before he can hit us. They've been doing this style of operation for almost the entire war, and no one has been hit in about 6 years.

So you can laugh at the facial hair, but hey, im sure it saved my ass at least once, and many others. And they do know who the real mercs are, and what they drive.

Hamma

2011-10-23, 08:21 PM

:thumbsup:

Blending in.

Traak

2011-10-24, 04:31 AM

But, who would you blend in with? All the white-skinned blonde Iraqis? That is what made me wonder. There was nothing about the guys I saw that made me think "Wow, they sure had me fooled. I had no idea they were close-protection guys." Or: Someone call security! There's a whole gang of 6' tall, muscled-up white Iraqis in excruciatingly new t-shirts and jeans walking around the base!

How would they look at the average white guy and think "Oh, he blends in, must be from Iraq?

But, I don't know much about where you were operating. Were there a lot of people that looked like you that you blended in with there? Because not one of you guys ever looked like an Iraqi, or even from someone other than smack-dab in the middle of America to me. You couldn't have looked much more foreign if you were walking around in groups of three with drum, fife, and Old Glory.

I am not saying this to be contentious, despite the humor. I am actually curious how an Elmer's-Glue-All-white American with or without facial hair blended in. And I am not disputing your safety record. If you were trying not to look like regular Army guys, well, you didn't, but, to me, at least, you all looked like Special Forces, which, again, to me, would have made you look like a walking bull's-eye.

But, I don't know what the average Hadji was looking for, either, other than the shiny-smooth chin and ARMY shirt and attitude.

Baneblade

2011-10-24, 06:19 AM

Have some faith Traak.

Traak

2011-10-24, 06:52 AM

I have lotsa faith. I hope. What I don't have is knowledge of how the white-bread-with-facial-hair look mitigates attack possibilities.

Baneblade

2011-10-24, 07:36 AM

Iraqis aren't all that dark.

Traak

2011-10-24, 07:52 AM

Maybe not. Just almost all of them that I've seen. I never saw one that was white, or had anything other than black or dark hair.

Basically, none of them were people I would look at and say "Wow, he's from Missouri." Unlike almost all the close protection guys.

Hamma

2011-10-24, 10:17 AM

Why in the world is it that big of a deal to you :lol:

He said why they did it, and it quite obviously was effective and likely saved his life. Why not just take it at that? :p

xmodum

2011-10-24, 01:42 PM

I understand the curiosity, it was something I was wondering for a while too, especially just being a national guard weekend warrior, I found myself asking how I ended up with something like that.

They chose Guardsmen for it, cause unlike most regular army, we know how to shut off and act civilian in an instant, we go to drill, do our army thing, then go home and be a civilian, where as regular army is army, 24/7.

And I was operating in Baghdad, and we did see even a few ginger Iraqi's, and a few whitey's. But yea, no matter what we look like foreigners, but they were targeting just everyone. Either their own government officials, which we don't look like, or regular US army. Which we didn't look like.

Some IED's did go off on one or two British convoys, but they are very obvious. Big targets. Another thing that helped us was we had no ECM's onboard our vehicles, no huge antennas, nothing like that. With pure black tinted windows, you wouldn't know who we are unless you got close enough to see who we were through the front window.

And unless we were in a FOB, we didn't get out of the vehicle. So pretty much they couldn't see us when we drove by, and if they did, all they'd see is civilian clothes and shit, no ACU's.

All the bullshit aside, about the whys and whats, it was pretty fun to tell regular army guys I'm Special Forces, and when they believe me, tell them I'm fuckin with them, and I'm actually National Guard. Always got them pissed haha.

Firefly

2011-10-24, 02:33 PM

It's not about blending in. Something you will never understand until you get off your ass and learn about Arab societies and cultures (most of them tribal), having a beard is a sign of manliness. When we were in Afghanistan, we grew beards because only gay men and little boys didn't wear a beard. Even if you could only manage peach fuzz or a scraggly beard, you were counted as a man. So to gain their respect and trust, we wore beards.

Some Army general came along and told us to shave. We told him that if we did, we'd lose the war. It took a warlord telling him he wasn't a man for him to figure it out.

Hamma

2011-10-24, 02:39 PM

Even though you put it so eloquently that nobody knows unless they "get off their ass"

What you just said = blending in

But I guess unless someone puts it exactly as you want it - it doesn't mean anything.. :lol:

xmodum

2011-10-24, 03:27 PM

That was another reason. Oh yes, I had lots of fun with my boyish looks in Iraq by the way, they loved me.

Having my thigh molested by an Iraqi and NOT being able to shoot him in the chest = Loads of fun.

SuperMorto

2011-10-24, 05:44 PM

My sisters Ex was in Afgan, came back in one piece, thank god, many don't, I say good on all of you, I dont have the balls to do it, almost did, just never took the final steps.

I salute you sir :)

Traak

2011-10-24, 10:50 PM

So, in short, you won't get taken for a *** and lose respect.

Firefly

2011-10-25, 11:12 AM

So, in short, you won't get taken for a *** and lose respect.
This is the third time I've seen you use the homophobic slur "***". Which is very Christian-like.

Hamma

2011-10-25, 12:09 PM

Yea Traak seriously, let's not use that anymore mkay?

MattxMosh

2011-10-26, 08:55 PM

Us **** prefer to be called light footed fruit baskets Traak.

And to stay on point, I run a tire shop. So I sell shit, fix shit, answer shit, unload shit, and yell at idiots.

SuperMorto

2011-11-01, 06:29 PM

Us **** prefer to be called light footed fruit baskets Traak.

And to stay on point, I run a tire shop. So I sell shit, fix shit, answer shit, unload shit, and yell at idiots.

Sounds like a friend of mine, he has a motorbike shop :)

http://www.jamespricemotorcycles.co.uk/

Oh and btw I designed and built his website :D

Traak

2011-11-02, 12:29 AM

Wow. Now I'm starting to get a clearer view of who inhabits these forums, and the online gaming world in general. I really had no idea.

Baneblade

2011-11-02, 04:43 PM

Wow. Now I'm starting to get a clearer view of who inhabits these forums, and the online gaming world in general. I really had no idea.

People without their heads stuck up the asscrack of the Medieval Age?

Firefly

2011-11-02, 05:59 PM

People without their heads stuck up the asscrack of the Medieval Age?
What do you mean, YOU PEOPLE?

Baneblade

2011-11-02, 07:20 PM

What do you mean, YOU PEOPLE?

Pass the pipe mofo.

Firefly

2011-11-02, 08:40 PM

Pass the pipe mofo.
So in addition to all the homosexuals, liberals, atheists, **** and soldiers on this, now we've got potheads too?

PSU's going to hell in a handbasket and Traak will bring his Westboro Baptist Church folk to protest at its funeral!

Traak

2011-11-03, 12:32 AM

Electrofreak

2011-11-03, 12:42 AM

Currently I'm the Team Lead, Training Administrator, and SME for the City of Chicago's tier 1 technical support team.

We support over 44,000 municipal government employees through 42 different departments including Police, Fire, Health, Aviation, Law, Alderman, etc.

HOWEVER, I just accepted an offer today for a Network Operations Technician position that will put me into a new tax bracket. While being in charge of things is fun, I'm going to where the money is!

TigerClaw

2011-11-03, 05:18 AM

im a Desktop support analyst/Bes system administrator near london cannon street.

well thats my offical title, but its pretty much anything that has electricity running through it i have to look after (apart from the lights)

Hamma

2011-11-03, 05:44 AM

HOWEVER, I just accepted an offer today for a Network Operations Technician position that will put me into a new tax bracket. While being in charge of things is fun, I'm going to where the money is!

Congrats!! I know you have been working on this for a while. :D

I'm hitting up ICND next week, should be fun. :ugh: networking is my arch nemesis. :lol:

TRex

2011-11-03, 07:05 AM

I'm a service engineer repairing and maintaining coin operated amusement machines ie slot machines , video games , pool tables, Juke boxes, pin tables . You name it , anything you find in a pub /club/arcade where they sell beer at the same time. I also intall huge tv's , satellite systems , projectors ,screens, surveillance equipment and security systems .

Kyonye

2011-11-04, 06:30 PM

I'm currently serving my term in the Army.

krnasaur

2011-11-04, 07:56 PM

Part time ref in my city's local rec basketball league

Student in the rest of my time

SuperMorto

2011-11-05, 08:36 PM

Hezzy

2011-11-07, 12:55 PM

I have been a train station supervisor for the past year and a half or so, finishing the job next week because they're not being flexible with my university studies. I also transferred police forces as a volunteer constable back in August and have been training since then. Looking to start in December, should be a nice challenge!

SuperMorto

2011-11-09, 02:00 PM