Thread: SRP Professions - How about a random poll on what people do for a living?

Originally Posted by Speedster

Gas, electric, and water meter reading / telemetry modules read by CE handhelds.

RF never ceases to amaze me! I can coordinate 100+ channels of RF for an event or show.....and still have no clue what the H**L that is or how it would work!! Hahaha

Would you believe I've been on top of John Hancock? We hired an RF consultant back in the '90s to help with an RF interferer in Chicago, and this gentleman actually ran the AM broadcast array on top of Hancock. I got to go inside the antennas with a million plus watts pumping on their skins. I looked off the edge.

I bet no one gets up there now. Those were the good ol' days.

Server/Network geek. Mostly microsoft now but some Linux.

Telecom job... operations... network performance... IT... name it... LTE networks

My best occupation: submarine nuclear reactor operator/engine room supervisor. But that was a lifetime ago.

Unemployed Information Systems Engineer (after 23 1/2 years was laid off). Self Employed computer repairman. Economy killed that dream. Then I drove a truck, was laid off again.

I've designed, purchased and installed multi hundred terabyte mid-range platforms and now I can't find sh*t.

Costco is starting to look good as a place of employment. Hell I'll even stock shelves! Doesn't seem to be a lot of call for a 55 YO computer engineer these days.

M

Originally Posted by mjhammer

Unemployed Information Systems Engineer (after 23 1/2 years was laid off). Self Employed computer repairman. Economy killed that dream. Then I drove a truck, was laid off again.

I've designed, purchased and installed multi hundred terabyte mid-range platforms and now I can't find sh*t.

Costco is starting to look good as a place of employment. Hell I'll even stock shelves! Doesn't seem to be a lot of call for a 55 YO computer engineer these days.

M

This is what scares me about IT. I know I'm going to be put out to pasture sooner or later. I'm thinking about going back to China to teach English, at least it pays.

Originally Posted by mjhammer

Unemployed Information Systems Engineer (after 23 1/2 years was laid off). Self Employed computer repairman. Economy killed that dream. Then I drove a truck, was laid off again.

I've designed, purchased and installed multi hundred terabyte mid-range platforms and now I can't find sh*t.

Costco is starting to look good as a place of employment. Hell I'll even stock shelves! Doesn't seem to be a lot of call for a 55 YO computer engineer these days.

M

Mike!

With your personality, work ethic and a good attitude toward life in general any company should and will welcome you! From what I hear, Costco isn’t a bad place to work for!

As you’ve said many times; If good thing come to those that wait, you’ve got good things coming! Trust me on this!

Roy

Well to keep on Subject; I'm a journeyman clerk for an international chain called Safeway. On May 27th 2012 at 1:00 pm I will have 33 years in! Not that I'm counting!

Originally Posted by mjhammer

Unemployed Information Systems Engineer (after 23 1/2 years was laid off).......Doesn't seem to be a lot of call for a 55 YO computer engineer these days.

M

This is exactly what keeps me up nights. I'm 56 and IT now is all about centralizing, virtualizing. leveraging and other euphemisms for laying off people like me.

I am a student and I study computer science but I work full time in between school terms and I will be working for Police in the summer (doing IT support)