@A500

Mech Engineer, worked in Rail and Automotive. Spent a lot of time involved in amending European legislation, ENs, etc.
Got bored, set up as a chimney sweep, repairing chimney stacks, installing appliances, etc.

Looking to square the circle at some point, so will probably set up a design/manufacturing firm creating wood-stoves/solid-fuel-appliances for domestic use when I get tired of sweeping ;o)

Can't stay in one place too long. Love learning new skills, just don't like the 'now do that 1 million times' aspect of work.

Had an A500 in 91, sold it in 93 to pay for the deposit on my first flat. Got back into Amiga in 03 when I was at Uni and discovered Ebay ;o)

@Franko, RobD - need a Chimney specialist (with a good understanding of Building Regs) on your team? ;o)

Also a Trek fan (as well as B5, and most other sci-fi). Since Voyager is considered to be the worst, I guess most people don't even recognise Enterprise as being part of the 'Star Trek' stable. Truly goddamn awful, "Way to kill the franchise, Bacula!"

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@A500

Software engineer in the mobile phone industry.
And yes, I have also watched a lot of star trek

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@Deniil715

Wow, all those tech guys.

Social worker & Teacher assistant in education of social workers.

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@A500

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A500 wrote: I am curious of what career types make up the user community.

I am currently a IT specialist working for IBM Italy as wintel and VMware platform technician.

I worked since the early 90s on several IT and gaming magazines, including the italian editions of Zzap! and The Games Machine. Magazines I worked for, or I am currently still working on include: PC Action (italy), CD Magazine, GigaByte, Computer Magazine, Il Mio Computer, Linux Pro and many others.

At the end of 2007 I started a hobby project called VmwAROS, lately renamed (and luckily best known as) Icaros Desktop.

@Boot_WB

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Boot_WB wrote: @Franko, RobD - need a Chimney specialist (with a good understanding of Building Regs) on your team? ;o) Also a Trek fan (as well as B5, and most other sci-fi). Since Voyager is considered to be the worst, I guess most people don't even recognise Enterprise as being part of the 'Star Trek' stable. Truly goddamn awful, "Way to kill the franchise, Bacula!"

Seems we've got enough folk here in all aspects to the building trade to start up a new construction company... "Amiga Homes - Retro Building Specialists"...

On the subject of Star Trek no-one beats Kirk and no neck Janeway was the wost captain ever, closely followed by Sisko...

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@KimmoK

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I was 14 years at Nokia networks (NSN) developing BaseStation SW (protocol SW (E-Cell, HSCSD, GPRS, Edge etc.) and control SW (3G, 4G)). I left NSN year ago from SW specialist position.

I was (Building) Chief Engineer for 7 months at the NSN headquarters off Broken Sound in Boca Raton, FL.

Did you ever get to use the "Halo Rooms"?

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@Franko

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Franko wrote: Seems we've got enough folk here in all aspects to the building trade to start up a new construction company... "Amiga Homes - Retro Building Specialists"...

"Remember when housebuilding was fun...?"

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On the subject of Star Trek no-one beats Kirk and no neck Janeway was the wost captain ever, closely followed by Sisko...

That grating voice... disliked Janeway a lot, it was all getting a bit insipid by that point anyway... lots of emoting, meaningful looks, pastoral captains 'developing' their crews...

Kirk's method ruled: if you survive more than one away mission, consider yourself promoted.

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I was software engineer in cellphone industry for a while and I now work in interactive voting system software and hardware development.

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@A500

Self employed financial consultant, specialized in tax law.

Mech engineer working on repair of turbomachinery equipments.

Technical Director of Buyaparcel.com - like many of you, turned a hobby into a career... which isn't always a good idea, as a s**t day at work, you can't kick back and go enjoy your hobby as all you are reminded of is more poop the next day :)

Jayneway wasn't bad - certainly the prettiest - after Bill Shatner of course lol

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@A1200

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A1200 wrote: Jayneway wasn't bad - certainly the prettiest - after Bill Shatner of course lol

I just gagged. Persoonally I'd rather bed Nomad.

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I am a Team Coach of a Sales Documentation Department.

I studied Technical Communications.


Nice to read all the different jobs you have.

It's a nice Thread...

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Currently Product Manager responsible for Digital Cameras & Digital Voice Recorders at Olympus Istanbul

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I finished school in 2001 and got employed as Developer (in the same year my amiga career was stopped) and now I'm a Senior Software Engineer for a Sport IT company which operates worldwide.
In the free time I try from time to time to code something for my Sam ;)

@A500
I am a Screen Printer. Feel a little below average.
But i can make the signs of the "Amiga Homes - Retro Building Specialists"
Always wish to have the genius to programm, but more than a little Basic in
the C64 and old Amiga500 times my confused brain was not able


Tears

@Kicko
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Is it only me having a boring work ? I blame it on my amiga :) SKF (Logistic Services). Warehouse operator.

Dont feel bad, I work as a Warehouse operator. or Backdoor guy, tipping and shipping lorries exciting....NOT!. Use to do a bit of freelance work as a Web designer, specialised in Flash, (which in hind sight not a good thing...bugger) So work in that area has dried up, sometime do a bit of fixing and building computers for people but not a lot of work now adays with the way the world is. Really hope i can get a more interesting job it the future.

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@amigang

Funny, I also fix phones and computers in my spare time, and I've noticed an increase in the number of repairs I do in the past few years - I think it's because people aren't replacing their laptop as soon as it catches a virus or they have a hard drive crash, but actually want their machine to last a few years more... And the number of LCDs I've replaced in laptops, cameras, phones etc., that people wanna fix rather than replace...

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