46 replies to this topic

[Purebob]

I was accused of owning an 'IT geeks car' last night , but it occurs to me that IT geeks are most likely to use the net, and so are represented better on here than many other professions. What do you do? I'll own up to having been a (1) for years, working through various (2) s until I'm now a (5) but coincidentally in an IT company. Perhaps its IS a geeks car !!

[Jase_MK]

Half way between 1 & 2 I guess. Website developer in a Marketing dept.

[ddpunter]

wish i was a porn star but small...and bad with it(sorry ladies) run a pub for a grown up job which ain't so bad cheers d

[Jim_Cross]

Full on geek for me

[rubber]

Run a civil engineering company. Ian

[DanL]

Run a civil engineering company.

Ian

Really? Groovy - I'm a Civ Eng grad, although I went straight into IT after uni...

Dan

[MajorGav]

Account Manager for a marketing communications agency. Generally good stuff really Have some nice accounts to deal with and the work is quite varied.

[P11 COV]

Wheres the education option? There's at least two of us teachers on here

[TheRockstar]

Day job: Portfolio Manager for an Engineering Consultancy arm of a Multi-National Automotive Company Evening Job: Part Time Rockstar

[Beergut]

Manufacture diamond tooling , split from biz partner so now working out of single garage with benches, mill/drill, lathe, kiln, hydraulic press and 6000 small bits of steel moulds rolling round the floor. Can still get the VX in though but it's bloody tight as arseholes and I always knock my sunglasses off getting out ! Nigel

Edited by Beergut, 14 May 2003 - 08:45 PM.

[HiHo]

A lifetime in semi-conductors and opto-electronics. now run a small consultancy for Quality, Environment and Health & Safety Management. Also part time amateur IT geek! Why a VX? It stops quick & goes round corners well, so it must be safer!

[Beergut]

a small consultancy for Quality, Environment and Health & Safety Management.

Stay out of my garage

Nigel

[CALYPSO_VXT]

Apparently, according to the definitions on here, I use to be a full on Geek. But now I'm all fluffy !!?? What make sit worse is my wife use to be a full on Geek and now she's all fluffy too. Oh dear. Time for a personality transplant I think. :ph34r: :ph34r: Maybe a porn star ? <_< After reading all the recent posts maybe there is 'loads a money' to be made by training myself up to be a mechanic, specialising in fixing VX cars with a guaranteed next day service. Having just phoned a few garages up to be told £60 for an oil change (not even Mobil 1) I definitely think its worth a career change.

[VEX]

Sort of fluffy. Comms Engineer, working for distributor doing Home Networking stuff.

[Mike9009]

Project Engineer - manufacturing hotend turbo wheels for the likes of Garrett, BorgWarner and Holset. (and no I can't get spares for the VXT!) - mainly commercial diesel stuff but we do the volkswagen group 1.8T wheels. Not a great chat up line and probably quite geeky also! Mike

[Vespillo]

IT, Im afraid, Development Team Leader, write software (.NET stuff) for financial organisations.

[PipSqueak111]

I'm a software engineer, so I put myself down as a number 4 - I design, make and fix software. Software engineering isn't IT, even though we often get banded with 'them'. IT are people that play with wires and cards and networks and sh*t (that is when they're not too busy breaking every IT dept rule on Internet and computer usage). I'm not in IT 'cos as far as I'm concerned, a computer is a little magic box which (most of the time) does what I tell it to do, and I don't give a sh*t how it's doing it inside (geeks want to know how it does it - that's the difference). I might slip into number 2 ever so slightly, as I'm also a Configuration Management engineer, and CM and requirements engineering are my specialties (damn it - I think that qualifies me for the geek bit! ) Phill

[MRK30]

Marketing Manager for an IT Company so I suppose this is "geekish" although I don't know my hard drive from my floppy disk

[SPLAM]

Partner in a small family run engineering buisiness i am mainly a CNC lathe programmer and operator. Mills Routers Lathes Drills and all that stuff. So that makes me one of the few non IT geeks on here