Who Is Your Daddy and What Does He Do?

Switch · 10-09-2008, 08:05 PM

I'm starting this thread to see what everyone does.

Explain what you do and where you work if you can.

Pics are a plus.

So I am a Systems Engineer for a "Test-Lab." We do proof-of-concept stuff for a government agency. Right now I am working on a 64-node something (I say something because I can't say what it is).

Here is a pic of my "desk".

I used to have a Stoner poster up that I got at Indy (you can see it in the bottom left of the pic) but they asked me to take it down. Poop.

This is my cool whiteboard... I put stuff on it:

This is someone else's whiteboard that I drew a JAWESOME Shark on. Someone had written "Everyone in here is _____", so I filled in the blank and drew the shark. Then someone else came and drew a dog with a nutsack on his head or something:

This is the button I push if my coworker is being killed by one of our 16 50-Amp Circuits (I took this pic mainly for Trippy-poo).

This is the Datacenter, albeit small. The black racks are for blades and the grey racks are our EMC SANs.

Here are two racks with 4 chassis and 32 blades with a combined total of 128 Processors, 512 Cores, 1 TB of RAM and 1,638.4 GHz of computing power. I dunno if there is such a thing as THz, but it would be 1.6 THz if there were. Oh yeah, there are two more racks to my back, so just double all those numbers for a good picture of whats goin on.

This is the back of a rack with 2 Chasses in it. I cabled this and I like clean cabling (and zip-ties).

This is the inside of a blade. 4-Quad Core Pentium Xeon Processors @ 3.2GHz each core. 32 GB of RAM and a Dual Channel Fiber HBA to boot from SAN and map storage to the blade from the SAN.

Smittie61984 · 10-09-2008, 08:14 PM

Holy crap I don't think I could work in a cubicle. I'd do this if I did...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Sq-HYGfnIo
(Actually sounds like you get to do cool stuff so it's okay)

I currently work for a subcontracting company for AT&T/Bellsouth. I'm techically called a "Flagger/Line Assist" which basically means I sleep in an A/C truck all day. I don't make much but it allows me to get off at 4pm everyday for evening classes (Going to become a radiographer/x-ray tech) and to do my homework while at work.

But we often goof off. I'll get on hooks and climb telephone polls 30ft up in the air with no safety stuff just for fun. Best part is I'm better than a lot of the actual AT&T linemen at climbing.

I do get to go with the dig crews sometimes and I'll run the backhoes (You ain't lived until you played excavator boxing).

Switch · 10-09-2008, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Smittie61984

Holy crap I don't think I could work in a cubicle. I'd do this if I did...

I hear ya.

Trip · 10-09-2008, 08:35 PM

I am the breaker component engineer with TVA. I monitor the breaker program to make sure they work correctly everytime and assist the craft as the component specialist when they need a suspected damaged part inspected.

I'm not allowed to take pics at work.

This is kinda like the breakers we have, but not really.

PhiSig1071 · 10-09-2008, 08:40 PM

OK, here goes. I actually work about five jobs.

I am a Commercial Boat Captain and Salvage Diver for Sea Tow. Basically Sea Tow is like Triple A on the water, you break down, run out of gas, run aground, I come save the day. Your boat sinks, and I grab some scuba gear, dive down, hook lift bags to your boat, float it, pump it dry, and get salvage rights to the boat.

I am also a MSF, FRTP and JSMSP certified RiderCoach. I work for a company called Patriot Motorcycle Training, I teach Basic Rider Courses, Experienced Rider Courses, and Private Lessons.

I am an On-Call Captain and Divemaster for Outreach Sailing Adventures. We operate a '60 Gaff Rigged Schooner, a remake of a 1833 Pilot Schooner, called "Momentum". We run day sails, sunset sails, star sails, also eco adventures/Dolphin tours and occasionally archeological diving trips. If they have enough people on board then I go out with them and help run the boat. Also I'm on board if they're running a dive trip because I am a Divemaster.

I am also an on-call Captain for the Water Taxis that run on the St. Johns River in downtown Jacksonville, and an on-call Captain for Sun-Cruz Casinos.

I stay busy. Idle hands are the devils workshop, and the devil has a lot of work for me!

Smittie61984 · 10-09-2008, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Arrah Arrah

I hear ya.

Now that I see more involved it does look better. I just saw the corner cubicle.

Buddy of mine works for a Firearm training simulator company that takes real weapons and converts them to laser guns that fire blanks and feel fairly real. He showed me a picture of a guy in a nice 3button shirt that was tucked into his greenish dress pants with his brown loafers in a cubicle style enviroment. Except he had 7 Bazookas on his back!

PhiSig so far wins with the coolest job.

Captain Morgan · 10-09-2008, 09:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Smittie61984

Holy crap I don't think I could work in a cubicle. I'd do this if I did...

I work in a cubicle, and sometimes feel like doing that (especially lately). I can't say where I work, but I'm a stock broker. Not in the cool sense of getting to sell stocks to people and making a bunch of money off commission, but legally, I'm a stock broker. In reality, I'm customer service rep in a call center, but I have a cool title. I get to sit at a desk all day long with a headset on my head and talk to people about the market, help them place trades, answer questions about how to place a trade or what a certain type of trade is, explain options trading to them, explain why the market is down and take questions about why their account looks weird (or looked weird when they looked at it two weeks ago sometime around midnight but they can't remember exactly what it was, but they swear something was wrong and I need to go back in time and travel to their house and look at their computer and tell them what in the world happened...).

However, lately, I've been fielding tons of questions about the safety of their money. I've quoted FDIC and SIPC so much that I could do it in my sleep. I swear, people need to quit panicking. Yes, things are bad, but for crying out loud, it's not THAT bad. The market will turn around, as it's done every time in the past. If you don't need your money for the next 2 or 3 years (maybe a bit longer now), then stop selling things off. You're only making it worse for yourself and everybody else. I think the damn media is partly to blame at this point. There is so much emotion involved in the market and the media just adds to it. Really makes me want to go off like the guy in that video.

Speaking of which, why the hell did everyone just stand around? GTFO the door or get a couple people and jump the guy. I like how one guy comes through the door and wrestles the dude, but nobody fucking helps. Either jump on the pile, or head for the door now that he's distracted (since you were too stupid to get out or jump him in the first place).

JoJoYZF · 10-09-2008, 10:52 PM

I work at Home Depot as a Flooring Specialist, basically I set up installs for all kinds of floors, tell customers how to do their projects and maintain aisles. Nothing exciting but the pay is alright for a job to hold me over until I graduate and get a real job. Plus I get 5k a year in tuition reimbursement.

Smittie61984 · 10-09-2008, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Captain Morgan

Speaking of which, why the hell did everyone just stand around? GTFO the door or get a couple people and jump the guy. I like how one guy comes through the door and wrestles the dude, but nobody fucking helps. Either jump on the pile, or head for the door now that he's distracted (since you were too stupid to get out or jump him in the first place).

It turns out that it was fake. You can tell by A) it being lunch time (Noon) and no one was leaving and B) none of hte monitors where attached to anything.

My buddy and I were talking about the market stuff today. I have a very small understanding of how the stock market works. My best guess is you basically give money to a company and say "Hey use this money to make more money". And when/if they do you get a reward for your investment.

But it seems like a lot of this stuff is almost a self-fulfilling prophecy. Because people started screaming "The sky is falling" and yanking their money out of everything it did create a crisis. I'm betting if people just chilled we'd be a lot better off.

Of course I know very little about HOW the economy works but I'm failry keen on I guess the "Theory" of how economics work.

r!der · 10-10-2008, 12:53 PM

Cool Pix OP, now hurry up and finish up the TPS reports!!!

[QUOTE=Smittie61984;78184]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Sq-HYGfnIo
QUOTE]

LOL at the video. That was kinda refreshing to watch in a weird way.

HAHA

10-09-2008, 08:05 PM	#1
Switch dadbod Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: East TN Posts: 1,215	Who Is Your Daddy and What Does He Do? I'm starting this thread to see what everyone does. Explain what you do and where you work if you can. Pics are a plus. So I am a Systems Engineer for a "Test-Lab." We do proof-of-concept stuff for a government agency. Right now I am working on a 64-node something (I say something because I can't say what it is). Here is a pic of my "desk". I used to have a Stoner poster up that I got at Indy (you can see it in the bottom left of the pic) but they asked me to take it down. Poop. This is my cool whiteboard... I put stuff on it: This is someone else's whiteboard that I drew a JAWESOME Shark on. Someone had written "Everyone in here is _____", so I filled in the blank and drew the shark. Then someone else came and drew a dog with a nutsack on his head or something: This is the button I push if my coworker is being killed by one of our 16 50-Amp Circuits (I took this pic mainly for Trippy-poo). This is the Datacenter, albeit small. The black racks are for blades and the grey racks are our EMC SANs. Here are two racks with 4 chassis and 32 blades with a combined total of 128 Processors, 512 Cores, 1 TB of RAM and 1,638.4 GHz of computing power. I dunno if there is such a thing as THz, but it would be 1.6 THz if there were. Oh yeah, there are two more racks to my back, so just double all those numbers for a good picture of whats goin on. This is the back of a rack with 2 Chasses in it. I cabled this and I like clean cabling (and zip-ties). This is the inside of a blade. 4-Quad Core Pentium Xeon Processors @ 3.2GHz each core. 32 GB of RAM and a Dual Channel Fiber HBA to boot from SAN and map storage to the blade from the SAN. __________________ It's fine. Last edited by Switch; 10-09-2008 at 08:35 PM..

10-09-2008, 08:14 PM	#2
Smittie61984 I give Squids a bad name Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Fly Over State Moto: 1996 CBR600 F3 (AKA the Flying Turd) Posts: 4,742	Holy crap I don't think I could work in a cubicle. I'd do this if I did... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Sq-HYGfnIo (Actually sounds like you get to do cool stuff so it's okay) I currently work for a subcontracting company for AT&T/Bellsouth. I'm techically called a "Flagger/Line Assist" which basically means I sleep in an A/C truck all day. I don't make much but it allows me to get off at 4pm everyday for evening classes (Going to become a radiographer/x-ray tech) and to do my homework while at work. But we often goof off. I'll get on hooks and climb telephone polls 30ft up in the air with no safety stuff just for fun. Best part is I'm better than a lot of the actual AT&T linemen at climbing. I do get to go with the dig crews sometimes and I'll run the backhoes (You ain't lived until you played excavator boxing). __________________ lifts - R.I.P.

10-09-2008, 08:40 PM	#5
PhiSig1071 Let go of my ears. Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Jacksonville, FL Moto: '03 GSX-R600, '04 625SMC Posts: 1,394	OK, here goes. I actually work about five jobs. I am a Commercial Boat Captain and Salvage Diver for Sea Tow. Basically Sea Tow is like Triple A on the water, you break down, run out of gas, run aground, I come save the day. Your boat sinks, and I grab some scuba gear, dive down, hook lift bags to your boat, float it, pump it dry, and get salvage rights to the boat. I am also a MSF, FRTP and JSMSP certified RiderCoach. I work for a company called Patriot Motorcycle Training, I teach Basic Rider Courses, Experienced Rider Courses, and Private Lessons. I am an On-Call Captain and Divemaster for Outreach Sailing Adventures. We operate a '60 Gaff Rigged Schooner, a remake of a 1833 Pilot Schooner, called "Momentum". We run day sails, sunset sails, star sails, also eco adventures/Dolphin tours and occasionally archeological diving trips. If they have enough people on board then I go out with them and help run the boat. Also I'm on board if they're running a dive trip because I am a Divemaster. I am also an on-call Captain for the Water Taxis that run on the St. Johns River in downtown Jacksonville, and an on-call Captain for Sun-Cruz Casinos. I stay busy. Idle hands are the devils workshop, and the devil has a lot of work for me! __________________ Entia non sunt multiplicanda necessitatem

10-10-2008, 12:53 PM	#10
r!der snowboarder Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: CAL-E-PHONE-YA Moto: 05 GSXR 600 Posts: 259	Cool Pix OP, now hurry up and finish up the TPS reports!!! [QUOTE=Smittie61984;78184] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Sq-HYGfnIo QUOTE] LOL at the video. That was kinda refreshing to watch in a weird way. HAHA __________________

10-09-2008, 10:52 PM	#8
JoJoYZF Bring on the Zombies! Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Cleveland Moto: 2000 Yamaha YZF600R Posts: 2,691	I work at Home Depot as a Flooring Specialist, basically I set up installs for all kinds of floors, tell customers how to do their projects and maintain aisles. Nothing exciting but the pay is alright for a job to hold me over until I graduate and get a real job. Plus I get 5k a year in tuition reimbursement.