Survey

23 and I'm unemployed

>>52242031
The most /g/ related job

26
phd student

21 and NEET

>>52242080
What major?

>>52242010
23, solutions architect

28
Software Engineer

40, architect

>>52242267
>>52242279
>>52242442
What do you think of most /g/ users when you come here?

>>52242526
Most of them are probably just coming for the ruse.

I think there are a lot of educated people on here but this seems to be a place to relax rather than to start intellectual debates.

20
secretary/receptionist

i hate working in an office environment. i don't like my work and my hobbies being so similar (sitting in front of a glowing rectangle)

25
Tech support

I had such high hopes.

>>52242554
that being said, there are a lot of fucking retards on here that are clearly virgins and NEETS.

>desktop threads, never anything productive on the desktops, no indication of work etc
>battle station threads are pointless
>nobody understands what a botnet is anymore
>flinging opinions around like tards with feces
>everything is shit and there is nothing anybody can do attitudes
>no programming experience yet are the most critical
>chrome vs firefox threads, just use whatever the fuck works for you (works as in meets your needs and autism)
>anything that goes against someone's opinion is immediately bait or just dismissed

fuck /g/

>>52242567
wtf man, leave

>>52242580
what type of company is it?

23, Unix help desk, which is apparently a thing that still needs doing.

>>52242526
Mid 20s to early 30s, has a job that requires not being an idiot with computers, slightly overweight, and has the mandatory social anxiety. This is of course excluding the kids from /v/ and /b/ who come here for tech support, but thankfully /wsr/ is helping with that.

>>52242554
4chan is the only place left on the internet for shitposting.

>>52242010
>36
>Landscaper Gardener

Although I do run a website for a football club. Still I don't come here to talk about coding, I'm just someone who likes shiny tech and the vidya.

>>52242612
Medical. I just despise supporting over the phone so much. I'd rather be a cable monkey. I hope to move up to field support as fast a possible. What I SHOULD do is learn to program.

>>52242594
But that's what all of the internet is like!

Also you don't need to know programming not to be a tard on this board, I've never known a TV that requires its user to know what "Hello world" means.

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>>52242526
Same signal-to-noise ratio as the rest of the world with higher concentrations of autism and anime pics.

>>52242010
>22
>java/web front-end code monkey at 2nd rate software company
It pays well for the region, but Microsoft it ain't. But the company is pleasant to work for and has quite a diverse collection of employees.

>>52242010
22

job?

20, working towards engineering degree, unemployed.

Seven, on a PH.D program studying CS.

>>52242010
23, in school for computer science (late starter, spent some time in the army and being a shit bag.

I also work doing basic bitch networking for an ISP. They work around my school schedule so that's nice.

18
Electronics Major

>>52242010
20
Network Admin Student

I'm 22 and working as an android developer.
I have to do 3 more months at school to get my IT diploma.
And no, I'm not from India.

>>52242010

32. Policy/Fiscal Analyst (so no, not /g/ related).

>>52242010
25
Yes I'm a sysadmin

>>52242640
It's unlikely businesses will switch from UNIX to run their servers, because of performance alone.

>20
>Javascript/PHP/SQL front-end web-monkey for a family startup company.

>>52243478
In short: Your job security is pretty safe. Just saying.

>>52243504
Fuck off underaged b&

>>52243478
>>52243512
Yeah, I know. Also redeveloping software costs a lot of money, so it's more cost efficient to just keep it.

>>52242010
27 Microfluidics developer.

Somewhat related.

40

Network admin

23,
Rma specialist/computer technician.
We sell custom 10-100,000 dollar computers.
I put them together and repair them. It's the best job I've had in every way, its super chill.

19

Computer technician

>>52243670
Shit I meant 21.

>>52243295
What are the requirements to work for an ISP?

>>52243600
If you don't mind me asking, how did you get your job? I'm interested in learning about UNIX myself.

>>52242010
19

Assistant manager at a restaurant, the most /g/ thing I do is reboot the PoS stations when they act up

18
Computer and Network Technician

>>52242010

I'm 19.

I work part time (sophomore undergrad) at a tech startup as a backend software engineer. I work mostly with the accounting systems.

22
Student looking for dev job

20. Worked at a huge bureaucratic company from 18-19 working on an ecommerce website written in c#.

Anyone here work with ASP.NET web forms. Shit is fucking gay. Luckily I got to jump on a project using MVC before I quit. They paid me shit money ~20 an hour.

Now I'm freelancing and looking to get a job at a big tech company. Boy does it feel good to have connections. My current project is written in CodeIgniter. PHP sucks but it's easier for some code monkey who takes over to pick it up so yeah.

If I get the job I want I'll work in Rails, which does;t sound too bad.

>>52243295
Same here, but 22. Should've travelled the world when I hit 18, wasted two years in college for nothing.

>>52243708
I joined the army as a system administrator (35T) and my first station was Korea, where the unit I was in had some Solaris 9 and 10 servers kicking around. Since I was the only one with anything resembling competence in Unix (I keep a Linux server) I was put in charge of their upkeep. When I got out and was looking for a job, I was contacted about this position through clearancejobs (a job search network for people with security clearances), and while I didn't qualify for the tier 2 position because they wanted someone with a degree, they were able to offer me the help desk position.

Unfortunately it's kind of a "the stars aligned to get me this job" type of story, so I'm not sure how helpful you'll find it.

>>52243835
That's pretty awesome dude, I myself might just get some certification so I can work in system administration or some shit.

>>52242010
21, undergrad CS major and part time stapler

18
Political science major, computer science minor
I work as assistant manager at a local pizza joint

>>52243706
All I had was the first half of my A+ and a semester worth of study in networking (A net+ class and I was half way though a cisco class) when I got hired. That and my ability / experience communicating with people.

I'm bottom level though. If you want a better position I recommend CCNA, RHCSA, MCSA, and the ability to follow Python and bash. Also knowing how to work with VoIP is a BIG plus. So many call centers need system admins.

>>52243798
college isn't a waste if you know what you want and know how to get it. Just remember the college system isn't there to help you and it isn't your friend but if you know how to use it knowledge is power.

What are some options for entry level /g/ related jobs? Don't care too much about specifics, just want to get my foot in the door for now.

I'm 26 with a BA in Linguistics and a couple of years of receptionist experience. No certs. Learning to program but it will be a while before I can do anything with it.

>>52242158
he said student

>>52243899
Thanks. System administration is pretty fun, make sure you pick up some scripting skills too, like Bash and Python.

>>52242010
28
Yes, network supervisor at major ISP

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>>52243966
Read what I wrote here >>52243964
Consider taking some classes at a Jr. College, it might be an easier way to motivate yourself to get certs. Take as many A+ practice tests as you can find online. If you consistently get 60-70% right then I'd consider skipping A+. (This is because 30 to 40% of it is microsoft proprietary bullshit).
If you don't do that well start at A+. If you do that well do a crash course in N+ and quickly move on to studying for your CCNA.

Helpdesk jobs are were you'll wanna start.

>21
>Helpdesk at Uni
Don't really know the plan afterr this. Thinking of getting my A+ and going from there I guess

>>52244034
I was going to learn bash just because.
>tfw automating your whole workload with one script

26

sort of; plasmonic nanomaterials are one of the technologies competing to me the next computing substrate when silicon full optimized

21, mechanical engineering student. Currently on co-op at a sugar refinery

>>52242010
>How old are you?
30.
>Is your job /g/ related?
Job? Do you think I'd be wasting my time on an antique pakistani door-handle collectors messageboard if I had a job?

>>52242010
23
Yes, I'm the "IT guy" at a local high school. It's not a challenging job, but it's safe and pays okay.

39 - Underwater programmer

>>52244272
>antique Pakistani Door Handle collectors messageboard
Is this some new kind of fingerbox bullshit?

>>52244359
>comes to 4chan
>doesn't even collect antique pakistani door-handles

nigga, what are you even doing?

i entered this thread because i sensed someone who didn't collect antique pakistani door handles

>>52244457
Thought so.

>>52242031
Me too, fåm. Me too.

I was diagnosed with bipolar and I suffer from agoraphobia.

Still haven't gone back to the Dr. for the shit though, because they're pretty fucking stupid and they always send me to the wrong specialists.

Motherfuckers do not understand that I'm not suicidal.
In fact I'm the furthest thing from suicidal. I just hate people.

23, I work for Microcenter, so kind of I guess.

23, Software Engineer, getting Master's degree in CS on weekends

>>52245067
ignorance is bliss anon

22, soon to be EE dropout with graduate knowledge

20
waiter
[spoiler]fucking kill me[/spoiler]

>>52245732
fuck
just fucking end my life right now for fuck's sake

31, currently writing a master thesis in engineering. Unemployed

20 and I work for a mobile phone wholesaler

22
consulting developer/freelancer.com/drummer

I keep busy

>22
>teacher aide for special ed class

i guess it's /g/ related

>>52245745
At least you didn't fuck up, spoiler tags just don't work on /g/

24, Network Engineer / SysAdmin / Web Dev

24
I work in a federal hospital.....In the canteen. Most technology related thing I do is use a POS system to ring up these cranky fucking veteran's meals.

22
civil engineering student

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25
And yes, pic related

>>52245067
Take MDMA you faggot

21
CS student

20
undergrad CS student, working part-time as dev-bitch for random crap at university, about to start masters this year (hopefully)

What's your dream /g/?
Mine is to leave Europe forever and start a job and family somewhere in Alberta

25
developer - mostly java

>>52244359

>Frequents a Bosnian Bear-Baiting Board.
>Doesn't understand this meme.

It's like you want to be perceived as ignorant.

28, master electrician
Self employed

20, IT System Engineer for an University

24
software engineer

19, studying comp sci and electronic engineering at uni, mainly lurk in dpt

18 and unemployed/NEET

Taking time to learn more about GNU/Linux and potentially learn to program as well. I'm mostly watching anime but every now and then I work on codecademy, and just being on Arch is educational. For example I'm soon putting some of my hard drives into a better computer that someone gave me. Found out all I gotta do to make that work is boot from the fallback option in syslinux and then run mkinitcpio -P.

19, studying comp science

>>52242594
>>desktop threads, never anything productive on the desktops, no indication of work etc
kek, that's not the point of desktop threads, it's about ricing your desktop and helping others do the same
>battlestation threads are pointless
eh, they're kinda neat, like a physical version of desktop threads

the rest of your points are fair

>>52242010
19

No. I work in a bookies.

19 no but I'm starting school

>>52246770
This

Mid twenties, code monkey

>>52242010
29, web designer(wordpress themes installer most of the time)

>>52248260
oh anon, that must be a bad feeling when you just have to install wordpress themes instead of write them self as web designer, or?

28 and neet/unemployed

>>52245067
No, you're just edgy

>>52248330
It takes less time buy one. Time is money.
Anyway most of the time I need to modify them.

>>52242010
35. Trucker. Doing it for 12 years now. Booooring.

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>>52242010
31
software developer in electric company

25

>job titles says "development project leader" but no thanks
code monkey

28
Toy store

20
Train driver
Relaxing job

24
CNC lathe operator doing fucking bullshit NASA tier shit (down to a hundreth of a milimeter accurate) for shitty pay. Considering suicide.

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Pic related

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28. Cable guy.

>>52242010
20.
Reservist.

>>52249236
And student.

I tend to leave it out, though. "Student" isn't very prestigious a title.

>>52242158
didn't follow up with this thread, sorry. Computer Science

>>52242010
23
i am a sysadmin/backend developer (muh php)
making 50K

originally was going to school then got headhunted, dropped out, and been living the startup life since

some companies have sucked balls
but my current one is fucking amazing

44, consultant. It's gee-licious. Had g-related jobs most of my career.

20
> web developer
> /g/ bait related

>>52242010
26, WMS admin in international company's warehouse. I mostly deal with WinCE problems and human stupidity.

>>52243835
UNIX admins have it rough. How's your KSH skills?

>>52243478
Or because anyone who knows about the original deployment left/retired/fired. I do know quite a few places phasing out Solaris and HPUX though.

7 and fucking your bitch

>>52242158
pizza hut delivery expert

20

Microsoft Lync Deployment

Network security student

18, and yes (Fry's)

28
Unemployed

Trying everything to find a job

28.
Local IT business. Primary a help desk but would do anything tech related. I have a lot of freedom.

25yo
Not employed, but I make some $ on the net, not /g/ related

>>52242010

Old as fuck for this place / 33
Technical Lead for a PMC

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19 years young (xD)
-I'm a mechanical engineering student
-I work at a sandwich place and make sandwiches
-I role play a hardworking individual that cares about himself when in reality I hate living and want to kill myself every day but i see too much value in life so i keep on going

>>52242010
27, researcher (broadly in quantum physics). I code a lot of simulations, that's about it.

>>52252016
>I hate living
>i see too much value in life
huh?

>>52242010
23, yes. I'm in an assembly line of a proprietary computer that goes with some device that 3D-scans your teeths. Dentists around the world cream themselves over this product.

>22
>retail store IT guy
im antisocial and i fucking hate people

23, project implementation engineer.. So yes.

14
I worked in the porn industry as a translator

30
Security officer

Shit job I know but getting paid above minimum wage, 40 hours a week, to sit in a private room and occasionally look at a camera while I watching netflix, play vidya, and[spoiler] jack off [/spoiler]is pretty solid.

>Working at 20
Holy shit, get an education.

>>52252774
you're happy with that? To do the most time nothing and sit the arround until the day is finished? Wow, respect I can't do that.

>>52252406
i call bullshit

my girlfriend works at a porn store, no movie has subtitles, and we tried to find halarious captions of the scenes but alas they do not exist.

the fuck do you translate?

26
Full time Informatics PhD student

25. CyberSec.

>>52252055
not him but thats easy to explain

life sucks, and since hes a ME and working a job, i'm sure the stress is fucking killing him.

But then you realize you have the potential to change the world.

Just don't lose that spark anon

>>52252823
Fucking neet enjoy your student debt. Plus when you graduate you're never going to get a job because you have no relevant experience.

22, work in an italian deli

20
Full-time student.
Having no money blows, but the COOP semester is up after this semester.
Too far away.

>>52252993
Before I graduated I applied for two jobs, interview and job offer at both.. Think I took the wrong one though lol.

>>52242010
24
child services aka baby snatcher

>>52252862
Fell for the bait

>>52252963
>But then you realize you have the potential to change the world.

The potential sure, but the likelihood? Probably not.

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>>52252055
I realize that the chance of life even being created and being born in the time we are in right now is not even measurable in how lucky we are to be here.

The fact that life was created from a chain of events that happened at the right place at the right time, completely by chance makes me want to not die. That has extraordinary value to me.


On the other hand, I hate what society has become and is becoming. I hate the people around me and the degeneracy of what the world is becoming. Mainly because religion kept the masses in check, now that people are beginning to realize that religion is just a way to control people and its all fake, more and more people are falling into degeneracy and losing their moral values. The human race is destined for failure because of our incredible flaws, and all people try and do is live in the moment.

People are selfish by nature. Most people don't care about the past, present, or the greater good. Just themselves. They don't care about the planet, science, technology, improving the human race as a whole. They only care about themselves and stupid media things. Video games, movies, TV shows, celebrities. It's ridiculous how society is turning out. We have so much potential yet it's wasted on such meaningless things. I saw a video the other day of Bill Nye trying to explain to some people on TV why finding traces of water on Mars is a huge discovery, and these kids just said "lol who cares about Mars? haha look at what Kim Kardashian tweeted thats so much more important."

There is no god. Life is just life, we are destined to die and anything we do in any of our lives will ultimately be meaningless the way the human race is going. Why even try? Why not quicken the course of nature? Life seems more of a disease and pain than anything else. It would be a lot simpler to just end it all and not have to worry about any of the meaningless things we worry about everyday of our lives. In the end... it doesn't even matter.

24
software engineer @ memesoft

product isn't very exciting but i am telling myself it's a lot of technical growth, mostly the money is keeping me there. larger aspirations i think but need to figure that out.

20. Full time student, TA on the side.

21, intern at some computer security company as Linux admin.

>>52252993
>student
>neet
I understand that you're angry that they don't let retards into college, but there's still no need to be this salty.

>>52252827

No but it pays about as much or better than my desired profession (animation, character design, textures) and is more consistent and unlikely to drop me after a project is finished.

I don't require a ton of expensive crap to make me happy, but stability is nice until I stumble my way into something that isn't crap or doesn't require me to relocate to Bellevue or LA.

26
I'm a "Software Architect" at a cloud company

>>52242010
25
As a student I got tricked into a 10hrs editorial website caretaker job, only to find myself as an admin of dozens of vServers, ranging all along from webservers to domain servers and other crap and maintainer for the shittiest PHP codebase ever seen and general IT bitch.

>>52253397
hahah salt is like in tears so its like your alluding to him crying haha clever meme! ;)

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>17.
>Part time job as system administrator .

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>>52253483
do you just like getting banned or are you just stopid

>>52249018
noice

31

let go from HP over the summer as part of their "this is our last one we double pinky swear" layoff program, currently wading through a garbage market for whatever job scraps i can find.

did mostly SQL, Perl and Python at the last job with a few hours per week set aside for getting yelled at by clients because they broke the site again.

45
Now I'm system administrator, but I've been a developer for quite a while.

>>52253158
Do you fuck them?

23
Linus Tech Tips software manager

20
I'm a grocery store cashier.
I really want to get into something with computers, but I don't know where to start. Haven't even enrolled into school yet. Feels bad.

18, Vehicle Technician

>>52253613
nope. its actually kind of a sad job. theres time where i have to tuck my pants into my socks before walking into peoples houses. once there was a house with dirty diapers just tossed in the corner of the kitchen.

27, spanner monkey.

Really want to try for a before-30 career change into something IT related but everyone starts so fucking young.

>>52242010
22
Phd in maths
300k salary

23
Semiconductor design (EE)

>>52253650
If you're on the fence (and in USA) just sign up for a Community College class.
It's a decent place to start. You'll get an idea of what path of IT you want to get into.

Anime is gay.

28
CNC Operator/ CAD/CAD G-code "programmer"

>>52253899
I'm in Canada, I think most of the community colleges here are private and don't have the best credibility. I do suppose I'll have to risk it to get the biscuit at some point though.

>>52253650
20 years old bro u got your entire life ahead of u

>>52242010
25 game programmer

39

IT project manager.

20
I've been getting my web development skills up to par and hope to land a decent gig by may. I'm going to try to take up photoshop to so I don't have to rely on anyone. Improve my back end skills as well (know basic java) Starting schoo againl at community college too this semester to hold me over, since I dropped out of uni around 19 due to not knowing what I really wanted and partially this
>>52253242
Though it's not my own ultimate fate I fear. It's the possibility of having live through that of my loved ones. Something we all deal with though and more of a reason to enjoy the moment and strive for everything.

>>52251988
Technical lead as in working with computer systems? Sounds fucking interesting, can you elaborate at all? Always been interested in computer applications in the military or with PMCs

23 burgerking
But im trying to learn linux to get out of this fucking job

>>52242010
29
phd student

>>52245067
you just dont understand that no one gives a fuck about your little mental 'issues'

27
projectionist
yes

>we going to screen the Steve Jobs movie
>from a "movie" file, based on open standards
>from a server running GAHNOO+Loonix
>using a projector running Windows XP (pos ready 2009)

22
Sharepoint developer for a mining engineering company

22, Have a CS Degree and Math Minor.

Unemployed, turned down a job offer for associate software engineer the other day.

Pay wasn't great, distance was too far, and there was some retarded conditions I had to agree to.

18
Cook and line server at Qdoba Mexican Grill, student. Plan on going to college for compsci this fall, I already do some programming and Linux stuff right now
>>52253242
This made a lot of sense

>>52242010
35. Programmer. Mostly do CTI (Computer Telephony Integration) work.

>>52242010
28, no.

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23, NEET, never had a job in my life, no degree, suicidal, don't know how to help myself, don't expect sympathy or people's time; just want to lay down in a dark quiet place and die.

>>52246769
You make clothes?

25, compsci masters student.

>>52242010
25, discretionary trader

At the moment no, although I do have an 8 monitor set-up at my desk. However, I hope to move into algo trading in the near future so I suppose then it would be a yes.

22. Full time Web Developer.