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Official Mac Rumors "What's Your Job" Thread

I'm not sure anymore. My hiring letter says my job title is "Help Desk Coordinator" but my recent performance report had me listed as "PC Technician III".

Bascially I run the Help Desk for a medium-sized corporation, handling North America (US & Canada). Aside from that: I cover support requests on-campus in order to assist the regular technicians (2 technicians to handle over 600 people at our main corporate site), handle office supplies (we don't have an admin AND NO i'm not the admin dammit!), do some network administration stuff (dial-up accounts, VOIP accounts, and spam server retrievals), maintain content on our intranet, and serve as the general guru for manual virus/adware/spyware removals and anything else our "text-book" technicians can't figure out.

I'm the typical self taught "this is my life" nerd, whereas everyone else in the department is there to collect a check. Like many Mac users, I switched because of Microsoft, not because of PC's in general. I would much rather build my own PC and be able to run Mac OS X on it, than buy a Mac, but I'm happy with my current setup for now. Our company is 99% Windows with just a few Macs in Marketing and some Linux servers.

My first job was a summer internship at Applied Materials when I was 16. Since then I've bounced around on countless temp jobs (Administrative Assistant, Office Assistant, Data Entry Clerk II), worked for several school districts, worked retail-hell ("Sales Engineer" figure THAT one out), and when between jobs I do paid in-home tech support through word of mouth. This is my first regular (non-temp/summer) job, and also the first time I've ever gotten benefits! Woohoo!
 
Im currently doing social service at the Viennese Red Cross.. 3 more months to go. But its a fun time :D

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Senior Implementation Engineer - I work with biometrics and smart card systems, doing identity management and physical/logical security. Basically, clients ask us to integrate everything from fingerprint/hand geometry to facial recognition systems and RFID.
 
I'm a security bike patrol officer for a security company contracted to protect the largest downtown bank campus in my city. I get to bike around and talk on radios and go up in several big towers and carry mace/pepper spray! And occasionally use a Segway if the other idiots haven't broken it, but as of right now, they have. And it's damned cold outside at nights right now.

I've actually never done anything like this before. Not even remotely close... my last job before this was a call center sales associate for Qwest (14 states) selling home landlines/features, long distance, DSL, wireless, and DirecTV satellite packages. Before that, I worked for a Nextel agent at a mall, a U.S. Cellular agent at a mall, the biggest Gap store in the region, a seasonal game store, I was a makeup artist/skincare analyst for two major department stores in the area (lines Prescriptives and Origins), I sold Craftsman hand and power tools at Sears, I was a cashier at Wal-Mart, I sold/rented out movies at Hollywood Video, and I've also done customer service for T-Mobile and Omaha Steaks. Plus a little office temping. So I've done a lot of stuff, some for long periods and some for shorter periods. (I have been called a job hopper--but what, I should stay somewhere that blatantly isn't making me happy?)

I've been in and out of post-secondary schooling for about two years after I graduated high school a year early (home problems, social issues). I've been mostly at local community colleges, and I've finally figured myself out and some of the things I want to pursue: psychology, graphic/print/web design, film/video, and gay civil rights. Who knows what will be a career and what will be a hobby--I'll get back to you after another year of CC and then another year or two at a local 4-year for my bachelor's. ;)
 
Wow, I'm definitely out of place here. I'm an apprenticing framer for a construction company. Building custom and spec houses right now. I realized I could never do this as a career though, it's only a job now to pay for my university as I'm going back full-time next year for Psychology major.
 
I'm a Gallery Assistant for National Museum and Galleries of Wales.

I look after galleries exhibiting artifacts and items from roughly 300 years of Welsh history, from industry to innovation.

The Museum I work in is fairly new, (18 months) and cost £33,000,000 (33 million to the mathematically inept)

I walk around the galleries, looking after the exhibits, and help people get to grips with the interactive side of the Museum, and there's lots of it. It's pretty high tech, and really impressive. I get to meet lots of great people, and I have a security radio for when I meet people who aren't so great.

Great pay, and you're really looked after.

I absolutely adore my job.

Rich.
 
Hey, I just found this thread.

Veterinarian.

General practice by day. Nights and weekends, the same practice turns into a 24-hour emergency clinic.

Dogs and cats only.
(If you bring me your sick hamster... seriously... I'll tell you to get a new hamster.)

Other ER vets and physicians must agree... the number of people who should have won that Darwin Award and then subsequently and efficiently should have been eliminated from the gene pool, or at least prohibited from having a pet... well, keeps the job interesting (...and often frightening).
 
It seems to keep changing from time to time, it's been:
Infrastructure specalist
Computer operator
VMS operator
Infrastructure operator
Infrastructre operations shift manager.

I tend to just say VMS bod.
 
I go to the school at my church and I've been a TA for the man in charge of the Music and I've been helping him all year. The school year ends this Friday for me and he wants me to continue helping him, so that's me job that I start soon.

I'm applying to get a second job right now, so far I've applied for a job at Best Buy and Gamestop. I was thinking about Office Depot, but I was told that they couldn't hire anyone else right now. Hopefully I can get the job at Best Buy, but they say that they aren't hiring right now :(. I'll most likely get the job at Gamestop though, as a person is leaving this week.
 
Just looking through some of these, pretty cool to see all sorts of people on this forum.
 
Currently, I'm an event photographer for the summer.

Once school hits back, I'll be a photography instructor.
 
Right now I'm developing a game, it's poo because you don't get paid for months but then you release it and you're rolling in it :D

And some freelance graphic work but that's not much really.
 
saxophone professor at a university in the U.S.
professional musician

I used to work in IT, but I disliked having calls at 3:00am because a server went down. Funny how no one calls you at 3:00am for a gig (that is, unless you are just finishing one up)
 
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