I happen to have a gig as tech support
"Have you tried turning it off then on again?"
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Burke Prefect
Cafe Owner, Superhero
Join date: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 2,785
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08-02-2006 11:20
I just wanted to see who here is actually gainfully employed, and such isn't whining about the grid being down. Out of morbig curiosity.
I happen to have a gig as tech support "Have you tried turning it off then on again?" |
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Ceera Murakami
Texture Artist / Builder
Join date: 9 Sep 2005
Posts: 7,750
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08-02-2006 11:24
Oh yes, my Player has a very good job, as a systems analyst. One nice aspect of my work is that I often have bits of free time here and there where I can take a break and surf the net, so I can post in the forums and to other on-line stuff during the day.
 I don't log in to SL during my work day, except maybe on a lunch break. I'd never get any work done if I was also in-world... _____________________
Sorry, LL won't let me tell you where I sell my textures and where I offer my services as a sim builder. Ask me in-world.
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VelvetRain Voltaire
Registered User
Join date: 7 Jul 2006
Posts: 3
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08-02-2006 11:24
I HAD a RL job, but I got fired for laying SL on my work computer
 j/k Nah I had one but I left cuz I was sick  ((VV |
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Zoe Llewelyn
Asylum Inmate
Join date: 15 Jun 2004
Posts: 502
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08-02-2006 11:25
Me! Me! I have a RL job! I run a business as a designer in an online world called Second Life. I am self employeed and support two kids on this income. I used to work doing the same exact thing for some big game companies, but i decided to be my own boss and have more fun. It's a wonderful gig, I might add.
Oh...and I have not once in 2 years complained about a downtime. An exploit or two, yes. But never the downtime necessary to tun such a wonderful world as I am employeed in. Thanks for your lovely oversimplification and stereotyping. _____________________
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Ghoti Nyak
καλλιστι
Join date: 7 Aug 2004
Posts: 2,078
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08-02-2006 11:25
Out of morbi[g]d curiosity. I'm a Multimedia Designer for a major US Medical School. I work with doctors/faculty to create educational software for medical students... how to read ECGs, how to interpret heart auscultation, that sorta thing. -Ghoti _____________________
"Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon." ~ H.P. Lovecraft
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Persephone Milk
Very Persenickety!
Join date: 7 Oct 2004
Posts: 870
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08-02-2006 11:28
Software development manager here ... well, for now ... if I don't get my booty off these forums I will be shakin' it down at the Barbie Club before I know what hit me.
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Please visit my stores on Persenickety Isle Musical Alchemy - Pianos, harps and other musical intruments. Persenickety! - Ladies Eyewear, Jewelry and Clothing Fashions |
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Michi Lumin
Sharp and Pointy
Join date: 14 Oct 2003
Posts: 1,793
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08-02-2006 11:29
i'm on from work right now. i'm trying to get our backup server to swallow 4 TB of cyberdata.
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Jessica Elytis
Goddess
Join date: 7 Oct 2005
Posts: 1,783
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08-02-2006 11:30
Weekend warrior. Quality Control Technician at a Muntitions Manufaturing Plant.
ie, I make sure things don't go boom before they supposed to LOL ~Jessy _____________________
When your friend does somethign stupid:
Dude, you are a true and good friend, and I love you like the brother that my mom claims she never had, but you are in fact acting like a flaming douche on white toast with a side order of dickknob salsa..maybe you should reconsider this course of action and we go find something else to do. |
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Tatiana Sims
Just Tat ;)
Join date: 27 Jul 2006
Posts: 429
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08-02-2006 11:31
UNFORTUNATELY....I do the billing for a pipeline construction company in Texas. I recently got my Real Estate license and hope to do that full time soon so that I can play sl, I mean WORK from home some.
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Mina Firefly
Tattooist
Join date: 11 Aug 2004
Posts: 341
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08-02-2006 11:32
Does housewife count as a job?
At least this will have to do for now  Don't laugh... |
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Siobhan Taylor
Nemesis
Join date: 13 Aug 2003
Posts: 5,476
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08-02-2006 11:33
My RL avatar is a Systems Analyst currently between contracts. And hoping this will change before she runs out of money... er... oops, too late.
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Lupus Delacroix
Wyrm Raider
Join date: 3 May 2006
Posts: 695
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08-02-2006 11:35
I just wanted to see who here is actually gainfully employed, and such isn't whining about the grid being down. Out of morbig curiosity. I happen to have a gig as tech support "Have you tried turning it off then on again?" *waves from behind a stack of servers* Systems Administrator here... EDIT Since everyone is describing what they are doing: I'm currently blocking a DOS attack some jackhole is hammering our linux network with right now  |
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Banking Laws
Realty Serious
Join date: 14 Jun 2006
Posts: 602
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08-02-2006 11:35
Stocker, Wally World. See? I work for evil rl too!
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Ingrid Ingersoll
Archived
Join date: 10 Aug 2004
Posts: 4,601
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08-02-2006 11:42
I'm in my 10 x 10 office (pen) under fluorescent lighting as I type this. I can never log into sl on wednesday mornings because of jerky werky.
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Infiniview Merit
The 100 Trillionth Cell
Join date: 27 Apr 2006
Posts: 845
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08-02-2006 11:58
I was in the hotel and restaurant business for over 20 years.
In my twenties and thirties all I wanted to do was go water skiing, and snow. Over time I partied too hard, went to rehab, took some chemical dependency courses while studying 3D modeling and going to AA meetings. Now I own some land and receive some rental income. I am trying to figure out how to supplement my income with computer art in SL, RL or the Internet. The real estate license is looking good also. _____________________
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Troy Vogel
Marginal Prof. of ZOMG!
Join date: 16 Aug 2004
Posts: 478
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08-02-2006 12:07
Got a real job here, tech lead for online course development for a university.
Luckily, I was able to convince my department to buy a sim in SL so I am logged onto SL a lot more during the day these days but usually, I troll the forums during lunch hour while I eat at my desk.... sounds sad I know but it sure beats trying to take a walk in 100 degree plus weather. Troy _____________________
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Doubledown Tandino
ADULT on the Mainland!
Join date: 9 Mar 2006
Posts: 1,020
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08-02-2006 12:08
My RL job consists of DJing, marketing, promo, graphic design, throwing parties, bossing people around.... thank god I can push people around in RL without getting an abuse report sent on me.
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Phoebe Fugazi
Registered User
Join date: 2 Aug 2006
Posts: 1
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08-02-2006 12:14
I am charging a client $275/hr. to answer this question.
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Clubside Granville
Registered Bonehead
Join date: 13 Apr 2006
Posts: 478
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08-02-2006 12:14
I am the creator of an online education system and work from home. No complaints about downtime here, they are part of any client-based multi-user system. While my system gets updates constantly, the beauty of the web allows for transparency to my updates, except for the occasional rejigger of the database. Right now we have over 30,000 kids online struggling through what I assume is summer school. Me, I'm listening to the "Repo Man" commentary track.
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Chronic Skronski
SL Live Musician
Join date: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 997
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08-02-2006 12:16
I just wanted to see who here is actually gainfully employed, and such isn't whining about the grid being down. Out of morbig curiosity. I happen to have a gig as tech support "Have you tried turning it off then on again?" The grid is down? Tech support here too. The percentage of IT SL'ers is quite impressive. _____________________
A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Cu Witte
Registered User
Join date: 28 Apr 2006
Posts: 6
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On vacation...
08-02-2006 12:16
... with family in town. So much for my 1/2 hour of SL per day
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Finning Widget
No Ravens in my Mailbox
Join date: 27 Feb 2006
Posts: 591
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08-02-2006 12:17
I do research. Well, that's my job. I get paid to apply other skills but they hired me to do research. Research in what? One small area. Thankfully, that also allows me to do research in and educate myself about anything I please. All for a piddling low wage and an unfiltered (except by the NSA) internet connection.
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Taco Rubio
also quite creepy
Join date: 15 Feb 2004
Posts: 3,349
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08-02-2006 12:18
*waves from behind a stack of servers* Systems Administrator here... EDIT Since everyone is describing what they are doing: I'm currently blocking a DOS attack some jackhole is hammering our linux network with right now /waves back from behind his stack of servers too. I'm currently launching a DOS attack on some jackhole's linux network _____________________
We can't be clear enough, ever, in our communication.  |
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Desmond Shang
Guvnah of Caledon
Join date: 14 Mar 2005
Posts: 5,250
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08-02-2006 12:22
I own a small corporation in the electronics industry (deep development stuff, not consumer), and occasionally do consulting in the electrical engineering field.
Absolutely flexible hours as I don't do the day-to-day, but when there is a crisis I need to drop everything and take care of it (rare but it happens). _____________________
 Steampunk Victorian, Well-Mannered Caledon! |
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Kage Seraph
I Dig Giant Mecha
Join date: 3 Nov 2004
Posts: 513
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08-02-2006 12:27
Ecology researcher here.
How to interpret heart auscultation, that sorta thing. I love it when y'all talk dirty on the forums. _____________________
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