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I work at First Republic Bank, private banking/wealth management. Been here about 3 years, my first "real job" out of college. Currently my role is as a Team Lead for our deposit services group so I provide assistance to all of our agents who assist with client inquiries via call/email and also handling escalations since I have a deep technical understanding of our products and services. Sometimes the occasional house visits for our white gloves clients. It's not a bad gig, great company with excellent pay/benefits. Long term goal is to move my way into a role that helps manage and form vendor relations for new products and services that the bank is looking to take on.
 
Corporate Development (M&A) work for a large professional services firm. Buying and integrating smaller companies to add key services/expertise/geographic reach.

Was in HR for almost 20 years before that and made this career shift about a year ago. More hours and more travel but overall really enjoy it.
 
Staff UX Engineer, Manager; I manage a team of engineers that build/maintain an e-commerce store's front-end.

Even though we are officially designated as UXEs we operate much more like Front-end Engineers. The company has true UXEs and this is always a weird impedance mismatch when it comes time to do 360° performance reviews (every 6 mos.).

Oh, and at my company Staff is one level above Senior (other companies in this area go Senior ↦ Principal).

(Am I explaining too much? lol)
 
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tulkas said:
Staff UX Engineer, Manager; I manage a team of engineers that build/maintain an e-commerce store's front-end.

Even though we are officially designated as UXEs we operate much more like Front-end Engineers. The company has true UXEs and this is always a weird impedance mismatch when it comes time to do 360° performance reviews (every 6 mos.).

Oh, and at my company Staff is one level above Senior (other companies in this area go Senior ↦ Principal).

(Am I explaining too much? lol)
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So you're a nerd who manages other nerds? Got it :p

I am a Senior Director, Sales Analytics and Operations (fellow nerd)
 
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Coyotesetter said:
I own a rock climbing gym and a micro distillery. I work at both full time and the gym is far more exciting. Basically when you open a distillery you work in a factory you built, and there's drinking.
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Which distillery (my guess is North of 7)?
 
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I'll accept that...
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Well the term nerd has taken a dramatic change in meaning. To me nerds are the shit since they know how to do all the stuff that I wish I knew how to do. If I was 18 again I would go to school and study everything computer/IT/software related for 4-5 years and then take over the world.
 
Lemonzest said:
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Well the term nerd has taken a dramatic change in meaning. To me nerds are the shit since they know how to do all the stuff that I wish I knew how to do. If I was 18 again I would go to school and study everything computer/IT/software related for 4-5 years and then take over the world.
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And by the time you graduated, all that knowledge would be obsolete and you'd have to start all over again...
 
pltrgyst said:
And by the time you graduated, all that knowledge would be obsolete and you'd have to start all over again...
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haha so true. I remember when I was in university in the early 2000s they literally taught us about Alta Vista/Ask Jeeves/Yahoo - the idea was that you would use different search engines to find different things....antiquated in hindsight and that was less than 20 years ago.
 
pltrgyst said:
And by the time you graduated, all that knowledge would be obsolete and you'd have to start all over again...
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It depends. I took COBOL as a non-credit course when I did my CS degree. When I graduated in '92, that course got me my first job programming on mainframes, and I was told at the time that it would only be for a few years as that tech was dying. I'm still actively working in that environment today. It may outlast me.
 
I’ve been a Siebel Developer since 1999. Just like many other stories here, I never expected to be doing this for 20 years! But many federal government agencies still use the software and pay very well for contractors with experience.
 
CdnBeerLover said:
I took COBOL as a non-credit course when I did my CS degree. When I graduated in '92, that course got me my first job programming on mainframes, and I was told at the time that it would only be for a few years as that tech was dying. I'm still actively working in that environment today. It may outlast me.
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Sounds like you and mark (@krafticus) should have a beer together! Although I think he just escaped from his own personal prison.

There are still gummint jobs in Fortran IV available, for a fact. Rumors of the demise of the dinosaurs are somewhat exaggerated. I have an old friend who's doing really, really well in old-tech contract work for NASA.

Good pay, but a lot of frustration, I would imagine.
 
Worked in seafood factories as teen
Deckhand on shrimp boat in summers
Casino dealer/floor supervisor
AF Active/Reserve (retired)
Still working in government
 
I cut my teeth writing RPG III on a System/38 and an AS/400. Many of the programmers that I worked with 26 years ago are still churning out RPGFree on an eSeries.
 
UK Healthcare Change Management Consultant.

I used to get paid double what I do now however the UK likes to hike up the Tax whenever possible.
I play much less poker and much more golf as a result of this.
 
In fact the dichotomy between the AS/400 running RPG and the 5250 smart-terminal running the data description specifications (DDS) used to define display files was a close analogy to how HTML in the browser and CGI in Perl on the server work. I made the leap in 1994/5 seamlessly and never looked back.
 
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Sounds like you and mark (@krafticus) should have a beer together! Although I think he just escaped from his own personal prison.

There are still gummint jobs in Fortran IV available, for a fact. Rumors of the demise of the dinosaurs are somewhat exaggerated. I have an old friend who's doing really, really well in old-tech contract work for NASA.

Good pay, but a lot of frustration, I would imagine.
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This makes me feel alot better about prospects for my next job. I think I still remember some Fortran from my first job out of school.
 
14-21: Worked part time summers as a medical assistant for spending/beer money
18-21: Went to college in the non-summers
21-22: Worked simultaneously part time as an EMT and part time as a telemetry technician at a small community hospital (both night shift)
22-23: Worked as a per diem registered nurse floating around the emergency room, telemetry floors, and ICU in the same small community hospital
23-29: Worked full time as an ICU nurse at a large, inner city hospital closer to home. Worked 3-4 twelve hour shifts a week, and worked nights for the first two years of that which I've never fully recovered from physically. Gained a ton of weight that I never lost.
24-29: Went to graduate school part time in addition to working full time to be a nurse practitioner
29-present: I left the bedside and got my first nurse practitioner job at a subacute rehab center working a "normal" 9-5 job.
28-present: became a Dad
30-present: Part time scrub donkey
 
COBOL is like cockroaches. The entire planet could be destroyed and there'd still be programs running somewhere... it will never die out.
 
I fix expensive combi ovens, $50K ovens

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