I work at my University's College of Nursing. I do all their graphics, web projects, some video projects, and sporadic tech support that my boss doesn't have the strength to handle. An example of those are faculty members who wonder if a laptop comes with one of those boxes I use. That box being a monitor - this is of course after they do not realize a monitor is already a component of a laptop.

Until I go back to school, I am developing "crystal reports" for a local chamber of commerce. Taught myself enough to be able to complete most of their needs so far.

Axis, our jobs are similar in that (hopefully) it's not the job you want to have for your whole life. I work at an AMC movie theater that does some of the most business at one time in America for its size (20 houses). This means we deal with a constantly large group of people who need to be to their movie on time, and have just paid way too much for both ticket and concessions. So employees receive a lot of pressure from the inevitably unhappy customers ("guests" we have to call them), but also from management, since we are in constant competition with the other theaters in the company to have the highest "per head" (amount of money spent in concessions per ticket sold). It's a pretty high stress job, since we have pressure coming from both customers and management.

I've been there for over 3 years though, and I actually enjoy my job now, even as I watch mountains of customers pouring in toward an unprepared concession stand. It's funny to watch my coworkers scramble at that sight. The key to survival and sanity in this kind of job is to take a step back and realize that everyone is taking their stupid little part-time job way too seriously. Try to at least relax about something that's understandably too humanly difficult, because really, you don't get fired from this kind of job for being too busy. Really, just do what you're supposed to do without looking lazy, try to enjoy it while you're there, and nobody can have a problem with you. Call me pompous, but I think people who are trying to be perfectionists in their little McDonald's jobs are somewhat pitiful for actually feeling the need to try hard at that kind of job.

I'm not saying to be the lazy kid who ends up ****ing everyone else over, because that will get you fired, I'm just saying something along the lines of "be cool" and "relax," because this isn't life or death, and I promise you'll go home happier even after a really **** day if you realize you're above it all.

So what you're saying is that you do not, in fact, work for the circus.

That's because everyone thinks their job is harder. And they think that because their job is harder, your job is less hard for you. So you have no right to complain, even if you're pissed off, because they think they have it worse than you.

It's like when people say "it could always be worse." Yeah, it can always be worse, but it's not, it's how it is, and how it is sucks.

I hate how people who go and get jobs they know are going to suck ***** about them.

PARADOX.

I already do. I've never encountered such an arsehole, but if I did I'd probably tell them where to go.

I'm a software engineer at Cerner Corporation. They've got me down in the database architecture department with the rest of the Morlocks. Work's been good because I've got a nice, small team with a fairly steady and manageable flow of work.

I'm a systems engineer working at Lockheed-Martin. I develop software for and provide analysis on satellite systems. I like it and it pays well, but the work is not as challenging as I had hoped for.

as my signature suggests, i am a software engineer at viztek diagnostic imaging xD

lately i have been designing and implementing systems for image processing and 3d reconstruction of CAT/MRI scans. i also get to design and write custom user interface controls for some of our tools, and make them look sechsey.

most recently i developed our MPR (multi-planar reconstruction), and next i am writing MIP (maximum intensity projection).

also at some point ill be working on a caching system so our software doesnt eat ram like candy


due to the slack nature of DICOM format in general, there are a lot of oddities that some scans may have whereas others dont, so ensuring that the code will work for [hopefully] all possible configurations takes a decent amount of forethought and lots of fun 3d math.

this week my goal is to invent some tricks to improve performance of our generic command to get a voxel color from an x,y,z position (in millimeters) from an entire scan. this function locates the appropriate individual image, reprojects the position onto the image plane, converts&quantizes the remnant 2d millimeter point into an absolute pixel position, and returns the corresponding value xD


my workflow is overloaded and hectic, but we are pretty laid back about everything here. i usually put in a little more than 8 hours a day, and software engineering is one of the 2 or 3 professions in the country that does not mandate by law paid overtime. but at least nobody has ever griped when coming in 5, 10, or 50 minutes late.

$45k salary, which i expect will be reapproached soon.
also i make $62.50 an hour when asked to work on a weekend.

and to top it off, i actually enjoy the work for the most part.


now i just need the cute gamer chick girlfriend and im good to go.

Im at a random job employment agency haaxing their terminalz. Wee.