What's your 'regular' job?

JordiCP

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I convert ideas into reality for a given amount of money. In other words, I am a freelancer (or mercenary), but the first sentence sounds better ?
In my past life had been the R+D head in a couple of companies designing, manufacturing and deploying Telecom devices. I learnt a lot but got totally burnt and a moment arrived when my learning curve was negative. This happened about 9 years ago.
Have thought several times, specially when things get hard as lately, to go back to civilization and get again a regular job, but something still retains me at the wild side.
 

Star-Dust

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Since you convert ideas and dreams into reality ... I dream of being a billionaire .. can you do something?
 

ilan

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i have 2 jobs:

1. CNC-Programmer at ricor.com (Turning/Milling)
2. Husband

One is chosen the other is forced. you can guess by yourself wich one
 

Alexander Stolte

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I am a software developer. I am working on a project to make it easier to manage data protection clients, generate detailed reports and keep track of them with dashboards.

I am trained as an IT specialist for system integration, but most of the time I was thinking about programming. UPS ?
 

Cableguy

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i have 2 jobs:

1. CNC-Programmer at ricor.com (Turning/Milling)
2. Husband

One is chosen the other is forced. you can guess by yourself wich one
After 20 years married, the wife finds the husband late at night in the kitchen contemplating a bottle of bier...
Curious she asks what is he doing so late and why the long face...
-"remember that night, 20 years ago, when your dad caught us in the back seat of my car?"...
-"yes" she said, he treaten you with 20 years in jail...."
-" exactly ... today I would be a free man..."
 

Star-Dust

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You're practically the only weird on this forum, you are a developer.... BLAAAAA ??
 

ilan

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I dream of being a billionaire

i don't know about billionaires but in Israel, it is the easiest place to become a millionaire. all you need to do is come here as a billionaire and you will very soon become a millionaire
 

Alexander Stolte

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what you are only 22?
in half a year unfortunately already 23.
you joined this forum when you were only 17 years old?
no, i joined in december, when i was already half a year 18 ?
This forum is strictly prohibited for children under 36. You must be of age double better if triple
Who knows if i still have the desire, time and motivation to change the world at 36. Better now than later.
Am I the youngest expert member?
 

ilan

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started programming at the age of 10

what were you using to code 30 years ago?

like a lot of people, coding was for me something that only genius people can do. In 2006 I start investigating it a little bit (because of a college in my work) and realized that also "simple" people can code and this is why I started learning it.
 
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John Naylor

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I too started coding 30 / 35 years ago. 8 bit computers were just becoming available to the masses. I personally started on a Sinclair ZX-81 in BASIC which got me really interested but it was so SLOW. I happened to read an article in a magazine at the time that mentioned Assembly language and gave some simple examples. I was instantly hooked on the challenge so walked a few miles to my local library and checked out several books on Z80A Assembly.

Years later when PC's became available I wrote a few accounting systems which I started in GWBasic but when Borland released their Turbo C language I made the swap.
 

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Retired, registered a company, juggling B4X - house and cottage renovation work - woodwork products for sale - against each other (and, of course, the instructions of She Who MUST Be Obeyed]

Used to work in academia as a map keeper / programmer (database / custom download software for digital maps and images -> collection of data off warm-bloods on treadmill-walkways-body composition etc etc..)

i forgot : managing the Group-W bench.

Nope - he's struggling because he can't play the guitar AND hold the cap out - maybe he can't even play the guitar.
 
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rabbitBUSH

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although musicians rarely retire.
YUP....best example I have is a guy in a jazz society club who never left the stage when all other younger ones did "for breaks" - he was 85....
artists are highly survival orientated, innovative and constructive i'm sure you will come up with something.
 
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