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What do we all do?

topic posted Thu, May 13, 2004 - 11:31 AM by  MiamiAstrology 		Share/Save/Bookmark
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I've been freelancing for the past few years (along with waiting tables)....
I used to work for an internet company before getting laid off.
This past week I did have a phone interview with a company called SBI Group.
I think it's time to get back in the game :-)
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Fri, May 14, 2004 - 9:50 AM
    I'm a freelance creative technologist (I support creative professionals with their technology needs). I am a Mac specialist along with hair salon receptionist or waiting tables...I'm actually looking for a job now...
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  • Pony
    Pony
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Wed, August 11, 2004 - 2:34 PM
    I work a large national bank as a distributed systems architect & engineer. Basically, I sit around all day and determine the viability or game plan for managing or implementing enterprise-wide apps. Wheeeee!

    Moonlighting: *trying* to run my own multimedia production firm. Like, when I'm not working 60+ hours a week for the bank.
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  • Stan
    Stan
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Wed, August 18, 2004 - 8:25 PM
    I'm an aspiring web-designer with experience in print. (freelancer)
    I was in charge of computer repairs on my school campus.
    I have experience running and managing restaurants. (family business)

    I also volunteer my services for non-profit orgs, and gave workshops to college lgbt organizations on starting/improving their own web-sites.
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      Re: What do we all do?

      Tue, August 24, 2004 - 10:22 AM
      I've been considering volunteering my services for non-profit orgs. May I ask what approach you use to identify what non-profits would like to utilize free/inexpensive web development services?

      Thanks,
      Steve
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  • Groove
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Tue, August 24, 2004 - 4:05 PM
    I'm the head of the IT department, specializing in database design & admin. I'm also the current webmaster for our department and part time graphic designer. DAMN! I'm a total geek! But a geek in Cavalli ... so geek chic is the word :D
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Sat, August 28, 2004 - 6:44 PM
    Science Education. I build web sites and educational activities for geoscience faculty to use in their classes as well as help put together faculty development workshops.

    (serc.carleton.edu/)
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      Re: What do we all do?

      Sun, August 29, 2004 - 1:46 PM
      Me, I'm a Spa Director (massage therapist and do Skin care-facials, waxing, etc...) for a living, though in my spare time I goof around online, knit, spin yarn and weave... But I'm really a geek at heart I am, I swear.
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  • Joel
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Sun, October 3, 2004 - 6:07 PM
    Temp. Current assignment is scanning hardcopies of documents into pdf files then updating a database to search for said files. Some minor administrative stuff, too (e.g., "we're out of paper again!)

    Sell used books on-line on the side.
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  • Steve
    Steve
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Mon, January 3, 2005 - 11:41 PM
    I manage a photocopy shop and install network printers/copiers for the parent company. Want to spend more time playing with networks!!
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    • Jorge
      Jorge
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      Re: What do we all do?

      Tue, January 4, 2005 - 8:55 AM
      I used to do web consulting and worked for Earthklink Broadband Buissness DSL, T1 , Frame Relay.... Now i work for a multi level marketing firm doing latin american Sales and account services.. wahooo and I love the Tribe it helps pass the TIME 3 cheers for surfing the net and getting paid for IT hip hip WHoraawwww Hip Hip WHOrawww!!!!
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  • Kevin
    Kevin
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Tue, January 4, 2005 - 1:25 PM
    I'm a software project/product manager.
    Or was til the last round of layoffs. But thankfully the companies and recruiters have been calling and I have a few interviews. I've been involved in end user training, healthcare and financial industries.

    Still, if anyone has a contact at Expedia, Amazon or Microsoft, I'd love to hear from you.

    In addition to this, I've embarked on Landscape design and have been having great fun making changes in our yard as well as working up designs and plans for family and friends.
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  • Paul
    Paul
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Wed, January 5, 2005 - 9:01 AM
    I've been working keyboards since before "word processing" existed. I even worked on paper tape "automatic typewriters". That experience led me into data processing and programming. When PCs came out, I figured my career was over because soon everyone would see how easy it is. Throughout the late 70's & 80's I worked for large and small consulting and/or development firms and twice I was in-house, and a brief while, I was independent.

    Since 1989 I have worked in-house at a small insurance company doing mainframe DBA and application development. Now in the middle of rewriting everything to SQL and VB.net.

    I'm burned out. My next career move.... I want to be a bus boy at an outdoor cafe in Palm Springs.
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Sun, January 23, 2005 - 10:33 AM
    yay i own a small ass web consulting company here in San Francisco.. with my biz partner. He does difficult stuff numbers n client management n project management. I just sit being pretty making something pretty. yupiee!

    I do graphic design. web design.. kiosk..prints.. n stuff.
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  • Stevie
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Sun, January 23, 2005 - 8:05 PM
    Media Producer. If we don't do it in-house, we outsource to everybody else like you and manage the project. AND, I get to work in my basement.
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  • David
    David
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Mon, May 30, 2005 - 12:27 PM
    Computer tech support, former medical software developer and software design manager.

    Funny that for about 4 years I ran an in-person group in San Francisco called "Gay Geeks" at a time when you could put that phrase into Google or Yahoo and get absolutely nothing back. Now, there are over 6000 hits on that phrase.
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  • J
    J
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Wed, June 1, 2005 - 7:59 PM
    Im going to school be a Jeweler/Apraiser..
    But i really want a job in odds an end. Atleast one job as a receptionist in a ritzy hotel, one on stage, and one on a cruise ship. Its no fun if life is predictable.
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Fri, June 3, 2005 - 10:45 AM
    I'm a freelance web programmer, well, a struggling one. (By the way, if any designers would like to subcontract out PHP/MySQL work, please contact me).

    I'm considering going back to college after being away for 16 years... my current idea is to get a MUP (Master of Urban Planning) with an emphasis on GIS and/or E-government, but I'm still considering all my options. I already have a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Science (concentration in Comp Sci), but I'm not interested in going for a masters degree in that.
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      Re: What do we all do?

      Sun, June 12, 2005 - 6:44 AM
      I'm a systems engineer/project manager. I used to be strictly a systems engineer in a distributed environment, mostly on the Unix side (AIX, Solaris, Linux, NAS Filers,) designing and implimenting environments. With recent downsizign, most of us need to fulfill more than one job requirement so I was put in a 'project services' group. I'm still doing systems works, and additionally i'm having to manage multiple projects as well.

      i find i'm liking the project management stuff and I'm pretty good at it. Is that wrong?
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  • Paul
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Sat, October 29, 2005 - 7:59 PM
    I'm the Chief Engineer at my start-up company making photo editing software.

    Any single, smart, somewhat alternative gay men in the SF bay area looking to date? I'm a great catch. ;-)

    - Paul
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    • Bill
      Bill
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      Gay Geek ... looking for Chums.

      Mon, December 26, 2005 - 12:15 PM
      I' m married but joined this group perhaps find a few guys that I could talk to while I working on projects. I'm an artist and the last few days have been reading all about Web 2.0, the blogasphere and such. I'm a new media artist. So I am open for folks that want to chat. I'm gay... some of my work has to do with sexuality.
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Sun, December 4, 2005 - 3:21 PM
    I'm an online and print magazine editor for a religious institution (www.uuworld.org).
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    • Bill
      Bill
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      Re: What do we all do?

      Mon, December 26, 2005 - 12:20 PM
      Am an artist and teacher... working in the new media... would love to connect with a few chums... Trying to learn PHP/CSS for my own proposes. I can work using lingo, some actionscript... html... wordpress wysiwyg.
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  • Beth
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Mon, December 26, 2005 - 9:12 PM
    i've got a glorified tech support position for a company that builds computers for the vertical market created by the aftermarket auto parts industry. i service Unix based boxes for small to mid-sized jobbers/warehouses. they're SCO OpenServer based boxes.
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  • Gary
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Wed, January 25, 2006 - 9:26 PM
    Currently:
    I have a day job doing inventory management for a big box home improvement retailer. A very geeky job using mobile cart with wi-fi connected tablet pc. Great job, crappy pay.

    On the side:
    I operate a web hosting/web development company with my biz partner. It's a 50/50 partnership which holds it's own and pays us a little each month, but not enough to quit the day job yet.

    Formerly:
    Above hosting/web development company DID pay enough for both of us to live on. This was before losing three key clients.

    Before that...
    Webmaster/web developer for small company here in town. Things were much better in the wallet then.
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    • Josh
      Josh
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      Re: What do we all do?

      Thu, January 26, 2006 - 2:06 AM
      Currently:
      Grasping the finer points of new technologies, spending hours reading, doing Hands on Labs and examining many new technologies before introduction into the development cycle.

      On the Side:
      Living an alternative life, in a industry that has still a long way to go. ASIO, XAML, C#, Digital Modelling, filters luv those filters.

      Formerly:
      Manager Information Systems for group of three financial service providers.

      Before That:
      Service Centre Technician, Systems Engineer, Technical Director, Lighting Engineer, Internal Auditor.
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  • Metro
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Thu, July 13, 2006 - 1:49 AM
    I'm Director of Operations for a GPS traffic and navigation information company in Manhattan

    Also working on a website of my own to be launched this year
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  • Teal
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Thu, July 20, 2006 - 7:37 PM
    I am the technology director for an educational institute, which affords me the opportunity to work with some truly fascinating people on some on interesting and important research projects. Still, it's not all fun and games. The bureaucratic entanglements are many and the politics can be vicious.
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  • jack
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Mon, July 24, 2006 - 3:51 PM
    wow! lots of techies!

    i'm in fashion. just think if jack mcfarlan....except a lot geekier! i'm a more of a techie sociologist -- it's going to be a new area of study....

    and i have a thing for dating college professors! hint hint.
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  • Barbara
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Thu, August 17, 2006 - 1:40 PM
    Educated as electrical engineer with specialization in applied electromagnetics. No longer work in my field. Instead, returned to an early passion: ecology. Currently landscape designer using native, xeric and other "unusual" plant material.
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Fri, August 25, 2006 - 10:53 AM
    Former Notes Admin working for an ATL based non-profit learning Visual Studio.Net, SQL, HTML and web services. Like to game some and build my own boxes.
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  • Bob
    Bob
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Wed, June 13, 2007 - 5:48 PM
    Extremely versatile in electronics, computers and programming. A jack of all trades but master of none. Presently working on a weather station design including hardware design, programming and web site.
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  • Graham
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Mon, January 28, 2008 - 4:35 AM
    I work for a games company developing a social network like facebook.

    But I'd rather be wokring on a collabarative initiative which involves many of us geeks. Let's build somthing together and then reap the rewards.

    Graham
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  • Re: What do we all do?

    Wed, February 6, 2008 - 5:44 AM
    26 years as a semiconductor test and test data geek. 7 years with my first company, 19 years with my current one but...

    I'll be looking for a new job late this summer since they factory I work for is being closed and I'm not willing to move away from San Francisco to another factory in the corporate system.

    Hugs,

    Rig Daddy
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  • Brian
    Brian
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    Re: What do we all do?

    Tue, July 7, 2009 - 10:35 AM
    I see this thread has been dormant for a while (long while). But what the hell, why not? I'm new here. Besides, I'm sure some of you guys might want to update! So here goes, let's resurrect the thread!

    I'm a freelance graphic designer, working mainly with print, but getting more into web design. Always looking to pick up new work, especially in this economy. After all, I'd like to continue living indoors and eating food.
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