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Unemployed at the moment.

Job left for India without me in 2006. I had 15 years in the tech industry.

Went back to school to finish my Bachelor's 16 years after I started.

Graduated two weeks ago.

Looking for work. I have a job interview for something in a week. I just keep hoping that Apple will respond to my applications for the Financial Analyst jobs in Cupertino. That would be the best ever.

If I find a finance job, awesome. If I find a tech job, killer. We'll see what happens.
 
costabunny said:
what a mouthful! it means I manage building distributable packages, configuration changes, server planning, installing new web-apps (and java apps) all for an e-gaming company here in Gibraltar.

I mostly use Solaris 10 and I love it - getting down with my custom build scripts and managing multiple environments (test, staging, dev etc) - its a wicked job. Shame they pay me peanuts (less than half the going standard rate for my job)

its lots to do and as I am responsible for our live server deployments; quite scarey somedays :)
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I did that for about a year on my last consulting gig. I was basically the project's CM engineer in charge of configuring and maintaining our version control and deployment management software, and then enforcing CM procedures on developers.

I'll just say that I don't think I could ever do that again, my hat's off to you :) Honestly I think it takes a very special and dedicated person to do that kind of work.

I am now much happier doing Business Intelligence solution implementations. It's more of a development/architecture role which I believe is more suited to me.

One day I hope to get out of IT completely and make money off of my photography hobby...that's my dream job I think :)
 
odinsride said:
I did that for about a year on my last consulting gig. I was basically the project's CM engineer in charge of configuring and maintaining our version control and deployment management software, and then enforcing CM procedures on developers.

I'll just say that I don't think I could ever do that again, my hat's off to you :) Honestly I think it takes a very special and dedicated person to do that kind of work.

I am now much happier doing Business Intelligence solution implementations. It's more of a development/architecture role which I believe is more suited to me.

One day I hope to get out of IT completely and make money off of my photography hobby...that's my dream job I think :)
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I am thinking of applying for an IBM consulting position for CM, specifically ClearCase. What are your thoughts on that type of career move?
 
iShater said:
I am thinking of applying for an IBM consulting position for CM, specifically ClearCase. What are your thoughts on that type of career move?
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It depends on what you want to do. Have you ever worked in the CM area before? Be prepared to work with anti-CM developers, or developers who just don't seem to get it. Prepare to work long hours (especially since you'd be working for IBM), hold training sessions for developers, etc. It's a unique job, maybe you'll like it, maybe not. I would recommend at least trying it to get an idea, unless you have other job leads that sound more interesting/rewarding.
 
odinsride said:
It depends on what you want to do. Have you ever worked in the CM area before? Be prepared to work with anti-CM developers, or developers who just don't seem to get it. Prepare to work long hours (especially since you'd be working for IBM), hold training sessions for developers, etc. It's a unique job, maybe you'll like it, maybe not. I would recommend at least trying it to get an idea, unless you have other job leads that sound more interesting/rewarding.
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I have been part of major projects converting to ClearCase or UCM, as a senior analyst. And in my current gig I got pulled in to help out the inexperienced/under-manned CM team with issues with CC before they went out and paid $10k+ for a consulting company to tell them what I can tell them.

So had to deal with the anti-CM developers, had to do tons of training classes, work with IS to battle for servers, etc. So I think I have seen it.

Not sure about doing it as a consulting, and for IBM. I dunno much about IBM to see if the travel and stress level will be worth it. Heck I dunno if they pay well even. :(
 
im a graphic/web designer

during the day i work for a large travel company
and freelance a bit in my spare time
 
iShater said:
I have been part of major projects converting to ClearCase or UCM, as a senior analyst. And in my current gig I got pulled in to help out the inexperienced/under-manned CM team with issues with CC before they went out and paid $10k+ for a consulting company to tell them what I can tell them.

So had to deal with the anti-CM developers, had to do tons of training classes, work with IS to battle for servers, etc. So I think I have seen it.

Not sure about doing it as a consulting, and for IBM. I dunno much about IBM to see if the travel and stress level will be worth it. Heck I dunno if they pay well even. :(
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I think IBM pays about the market average from what I've heard, but you should expect to travel pretty much 100% with them. I work for Oracle as a consultant. I've mainly been used to doing BI/Data Warehouse gigs but I was asked to do CM for a project. I lasted about a year before I had to get out of it and go back to my area of expertise. I think with consulting you should expect to be on a project long term as a CM guy (which could be bad or good depending on location/travel/etc). CM people are usually on a project from start to finish, long after most of the developers are gone. That may be something you would want to consider when looking at consulting gigs.
 
What do you do?

Kind of a broad topic, I know. I lost my job in the IT field last month and haven't found anything yet. It might be interesting to see what us Mac nerds do for money. I'm especially interested in those of you who consult or run a small business.

I worked for a midsize hospital for about 2.5 years in the SF Bay Area. My job had nothing to do with Macs.
 
I think im a little late...:eek:....

but i thought i would post anyway.
I'm currently a cashier at a local pharmacy, and i have applied for a job at a local CD/Record store. and im 17 years old
 
Currently I do PR or media relations for the exact title.

Formerly, I was a professional infomercial reviewer and a professional mascot for a minor league baseball team.
 
I'm a teller at a credit union and I just started a summer internship as an internal auditor for public REIT.
 
I'm a Software QA Engineer.

But I am wanting to pick up some artsy skills so I can do some freelance work with art, design or writing. Problem is I don't know how to go about starting to learn any new skills :eek:
 
Deefuzz said:
Problem is I don't know how to go about starting to learn any new skills :eek:
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I would start with local community college or park district to see if they have classes that would peek your interest. Or, if you have the time, get a book that will teach you how to do something you want to try out, like photography, and then see where to go from there.

my 1.5 cents.
 
This is my second day at my new job. I do Tier 2 Netgear Customer Support. It's actually pretty fun, I like the training so far (I just mastered VPN in like 15 minutes). Before this I worked at a local movie theater and at my community college.

Customer Support = 10x better than Food Service
 
I'm sure I've posted here before... but I'll post again :D

I'm the Web Project Associate at nationwide temp nurse agency. Basically a web designer.

Funny thing, once we were doing traffic logistics with a SEO guy and guess what turned up first? Digg.com (I posted a link to the company's site about the apple-touch-icon.png story) :p But Macrumors did show up in the teens.

oooooops...

Makes sense though, our demographic is primarily 40 year olds. So our web traffic is sloooooow.
 
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