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141Up until the end of August, I did QA for a big audio developer company. Now I work in the tech support department of the company.
State and Describe Your Job
142brew wrote:Right now I am a service engineer with Solid State Logic New York.
I do a lot of traveling to music and broadcast studios mostly east of the Mississippi, including Canada and Mexico. Installing consoles, training users, fixing consoles, field updating, doing demos. When I'm not traveling, I'm in the New York office handling support over phone and email, trying to resolve issues without a visit. I service our entire line of analog and digital consoles.
Most of my work consists of identifying the problematic part through troubleshooting signal flow and replacing that part entirely. Sometimes I get into soldering on component level/surface mount stuff, but most of it is replacing boards. I frequently rely on block diagrams, and only sometimes have a need to get down to the schematic level--not too much of that on digital consoles though.
I'll be at it one year in December, and am having a great time. The company is a good place to be with Peter G. at the helm, everyone's cool, new cities are fun, and I get to meet a lot of my audio idols. Sometimes I meet famous people.
Before all this I worked in Miami Beach for the New World Symphony, before that in Orlando as Bob Katz's assistant, and before that as a recording engineer at the Aspen Music Festival.
I wanna do that too!
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143I work for one of the big cell phone carriers. I just had my two year anniversary on Friday.
Until last January, I worked in Customer Care. Talking to stupid people all day started to drive me insane. I was getting really burned out.
In January I got promoted to National Accounts. I give dedicated care support for large business accounts. For the most part, I process email requests and do reports in Excell. I can sit and listen to music while doing this.
I get a couple calls a day from telecom managers and people in business sales. They are for the most part far less mind numbingly dumb than the people I talked to all day in Customer Care.
I get paid pretty decently for this small college town, and I don't have to put much effort in my work to do whats considered a good job.
I have no idea how long I will stick it out at this job. It's so easy that I can see myself getting stuck in the position for a long time. I've thought about going to grad school for library science, but. . .
Until last January, I worked in Customer Care. Talking to stupid people all day started to drive me insane. I was getting really burned out.
In January I got promoted to National Accounts. I give dedicated care support for large business accounts. For the most part, I process email requests and do reports in Excell. I can sit and listen to music while doing this.
I get a couple calls a day from telecom managers and people in business sales. They are for the most part far less mind numbingly dumb than the people I talked to all day in Customer Care.
I get paid pretty decently for this small college town, and I don't have to put much effort in my work to do whats considered a good job.
I have no idea how long I will stick it out at this job. It's so easy that I can see myself getting stuck in the position for a long time. I've thought about going to grad school for library science, but. . .
Pure L wrote:I get shocked whenever I use my table saw while barefooted.
I Made Out With You Before You Were Cool
Don't Sit On The Pickets
State and Describe Your Job
144In my day job I work in the Prepress Department of a mid-sized printing company. The pay is great, people are blah and the work is what I love doing. I also freelance on the side in Web and Print. Right now I'm doing work for an internet retailer administrating their website and designing print materials.
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145Ty Webb wrote:STF wrote:Wood Goblin wrote:I, too, spent a couple of summers doing this. I'm hoping that STF's duties are more fulfilling than mine. I hated that job.Ty Webb wrote:I was one of those readers for a summer. That job was torture.
Where?
Durham, NC. Can't remember the name of the company. I spent 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, reading 5th graders' essays on "A time something funny happened."
At first, this sounds potentially amusing in a Bill Cosby "Kids Say The Darnedest Things" sort of a way. That lasted about 5 minutes. Every fucking essay, every fucking day, was the same thing - barely literate renderings of the time their little brother or sister fell down.
After 2 weeks, I wanted to stab myself in the eyes with my pencil.
This was maybe Measurement Incorporated? I have some now-visually-impaired friends who've worked there.
I'm the technical director of a 650-seat auditorium in a public residential high school here in Durham. Lighting, sound, rigging, and A/V stuff. The theater had its budget slashed when it was half-built, and so it's a sort of work in progress, which is fun, if a little frustrating. I have pretty good benefits and get comp time, so I'm able to leave town to play music and still get paid. It's four blocks from my house, the kids are great, and I get to play with cool toys sometimes. This is a pretty much a dream job in this industry, and I remind myself of that often.
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146I'm a Case Manager for the City of Hampton, VA in the department of Social Services.
Basically I'm an ongoing worker. When clients come in and need Food Stamps, Medicaid, TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) I get them to provide verifications of their employment, wages, household composition, relationships to each other, eating patterns, and then I put all that information in the computer after screening it for fraud. Then I let them know what they qualify for and supply them with benefits from afformentioned programs.
I'm still in training though, the policy for these programs are extensive and exhausting. Training takes roughly 1 - 1 and 1/2 years. I have already met a woman who claimed to have 6 children by 7 different fathers though. That shit blew my mind.
Basically I'm an ongoing worker. When clients come in and need Food Stamps, Medicaid, TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) I get them to provide verifications of their employment, wages, household composition, relationships to each other, eating patterns, and then I put all that information in the computer after screening it for fraud. Then I let them know what they qualify for and supply them with benefits from afformentioned programs.
I'm still in training though, the policy for these programs are extensive and exhausting. Training takes roughly 1 - 1 and 1/2 years. I have already met a woman who claimed to have 6 children by 7 different fathers though. That shit blew my mind.
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147Foldyourarmsandsaynah wrote:I'm still in training though, the policy for these programs are extensive and exhausting. Training takes roughly 1 - 1 and 1/2 years. I have already met a woman who claimed to have 6 children by 7 different fathers though. That shit blew my mind.
6 children by 7 different fathers? Am I reading that correctly, because that doesn't really make sense to me.
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148barndog wrote:Foldyourarmsandsaynah wrote:I'm still in training though, the policy for these programs are extensive and exhausting. Training takes roughly 1 - 1 and 1/2 years. I have already met a woman who claimed to have 6 children by 7 different fathers though. That shit blew my mind.
6 children by 7 different fathers? Am I reading that correctly, because that doesn't really make sense to me.
Yep, you are reading that correctly. She claimed 7 different fathers for 6 different children. She had been getting child support from 7. The division of child support enforcement is gonna have a fun day with that one.
Also, one of my coworkers had a renewal interview with a client today who had a son who is beyond fucked medically. The childs father? Also his grandfather. Dude got arrested obviously for knocking up his daughter but damn, that's gonna be hard to grow up with knowing your dad is your grandad.