What do YOU do for a living?

[Rorschach]

In the spirit of "What are you listening to?" and "What cell phone do you guys use?", I thought it would be great to start another get-to-know-each-other-better/anyone-can-contribute thread.

I'm a production manager for the marketing department of a certain corporate bank here in Southern California.

I know Robyn is a former rocket scientist (just... wow) and Christopher has a job that requires him to own every laptop on the market and a number of other pricey gadgets and peripherals.

What do you guys do for a living?

[Benz145]

I run MPCT full time! ;)

[enterman]

I run MPCT full time! ;)
ahaha, how much does that pay? Still hiring?

[didditdd]

I am a Telecommunications Technician, simply put; I install, program and maintain business telephone systems. Mainly Vodavi (Vertical) PBX (Private Branch Exchange) systems. I frequently use my UX to program these systems via an IOGear USB to Serial adaptor. On occasion I will use my Moto V3m to modem in remotely to said systems sitting in the truck (on more than one occasion sitting on the side of the highway, in the truck). All in all the UX has been amazing!:D

[wuzmaname]

I'm a Recruitment Consultant in the UK, London, to be more specific.

[hazmat]

I'm an independent investment advisor, also former networking consultant. My UX is great cause I can carry all my market analysis stuff with me and when visiting clients I don.t need to haul a huge laptop and power brick.

[ruffnexx]

im an orthogeriatrician in the United Kingdom, work for the national health service and private healthcare sector.

[srong887]

i'm a Sales Engineer for a network equipment Manufacturer (Cisco). whenever i pull at the UX at customer meetings to takenotes with one Note, the conversation about what the hell A UX is starts....

[MeanSquare]

I've been a minister for almost a decade now. I still moonlight occasionally in my former profession as a computer consultant. Before that I did various forms of programming including database work and cryptography.

[UXaficionado]

I teach adults English as a second language. I am currently teaching English to the hotel staff where I am staying in China. I am based in NYC during the year and move around to different sites to teach and use a lot of mobile gear in my classes. The UX often comes in handy when I am teaching. I use it in conjunction with a projector.

[Robyn]

Yes, this old girl really is a former "rocket scientist"!

These days I occupy my time as corporate secretary and administration manager for a Brushless DC electric motor company. Our proprietary technology allows us to produce 1.5hp motors that weigh less than 3 pounds and are only 4 inches in diameter.

These motors are electronically commutated and have features which can be computer controlled.

[KidDoc]

As the name implies, I am a pediatrician, though I spend most of my time as a hospital administrator. I am the Medical Director for Ambulatory and Information Services.

KidDoc

[GodTM]

I'm the IT Supervisor of a non-profit drug and alcohol rehabilitation center. The UX isn't necessary by any means, but it looks damn cool ;)

Actually, it is pretty handy when I go between locations and can maintain the network while I'm en-route (or on vacation, not like I ever take one :D )...

[M0zza]

I'm a Catastrophe Analyst in Bermuda.

[MathProfJohnson]

I have said this elsewhere, but my name says it all.

Online professor of math

[pakijawan]

holy moly you all are pretty much smart and i guess i can say hardcore awesome job people ahahha.i do part time job as sub teaching and studying.wonder if im the youngest one here lolzz :)

[Aussie]

I'm an Animation Artist and Director working in the film and tv industry here in Rome, Italy.

I just like to show off my UX to my clients... who usually go out and get one the next day.

[ruffnexx]

you might not be the youngest pakijawan..............

[wuzmaname]

I just turned 21. so I'm probably the youngest!

[Robyn]

Bet I qualify as the oldest...hehe

I'm 68 !!!!

And maybe the only woman on the board, LOL

[ruffnexx]

nope.................i think mathprof johnson is also the fairer sex............lol

[mwilson]

Professionally, the CIO of a company providing co-location services in our data centers as well as online payment processing to ecommerce websites.

Leisurely, and definitely not for a living, I pilot airplanes.

[MathProfJohnson]

Bet I qualify as the oldest...hehe

I'm 68 !!!!

And maybe the only woman on the board, LOL

Nope... I am female as well! Can't you tell from my coach "tech" bag?

[MeanSquare]

Nope... I am female as well! Can't you tell from my coach "tech" bag?

Not in the neighborhood in which I live (although most of the non-hetero guys are still fairly butch).

Robyn, you're not alone in the other demographic you mentioned. When I started in electronics, I was working with vacuum tubes. Also, see my new avatar :)

[Attritionghost]

I have said this elsewhere, but my name says it all.

Online professor of math

I am a doctoral student who is looking forward to joining an occupation similar to yours next year. I am not in the field of math, though. Also, I am a nontraditional student with my age in no way close to the 20s. So I envy those who own UX at their young ages and believe that they made a wise decision.:D

[Rorschach]

holy moly you all are pretty much smart and i guess i can say hardcore awesome job people ahahha.i do part time job as sub teaching and studying.wonder if im the youngest one here lolzz :)

You ain't kidding about the smarties in here. And here I was a comm major. I'll be in my hole if anyone needs me...

On the topic of the male to female ratio, I do believe jesschg is also one of those icky girls.

1,933 members and 3 women. Yep. That's about on par with a typical tech-related message board.

[pakijawan]

MUAHAHHAHA im 20 lolz.not that it matters to this topic just being silly.sorry

[enterman]

im 18, anyone younger? ZOMG! YOUNGSTERS ON THE FORUMS!

[giant]

I am in the finance industry but in the early 80s was into computers - I had a Commodore 64.

I am more than double the age of you, enterman.....

[wuzmaname]

18 with a UX! *jealous*

[giant]

18 with a UX! *jealous*

I didn't think of that....I am jealous as well....considering I had a Commodore 64 at that age!

[enterman]

18 with a UX! *jealous*I didn't think of that....I am jealous as well....considering I had a Commodore 64 at that age!

haha, ya I went thru alot to get it, ALOT. 6 months was plenty of time to get my act together to get 1 though :p WOO I dreamed about it in that time period, the possibilities, o I was in tech heaven. I consumed nearly any video or review I could find on the UX. And then the day finally came when it arrived, BEST DAY EVER!!! well... 2nd best musnt discuss the first or people will be :mad:

[Virtua]

I am a category manager in Fresh food retail. Guess I just like gadjets!

[pakijawan]

im 18, anyone younger? ZOMG! YOUNGSTERS ON THE FORUMS!

ahhaha woo you beat me lolzzz.i bet your working your butt off to pay off ux like me lolzz.but still it amazes me how many SERIOUSLY smart people here i was talking to and didn't know lolzz.any one here in IT department??

[Aussie]

Lot's of smart people, no creative people except me...

:(

[Rorschach]

Smart people? Hey, hey, hey! Don't lump me in with that riff-raff.

I'm actually production manager of creative services at my company. Basically, I'm in charge of traffic and pre-press for our collateral. I worked in comic books in college, and I did graphic design for 8 years after that.

[Sprout]

I had been lurking for a long time and finally decided to register. There are a lot of smart people here. Good thing I decided to listen to them and get a 390N.

I am an engineer @ a wireless company. We design/build radios for WISPs (Wireless Internet Service Providers). Currently we are pushing 300Mbit/sec over the air.

Sprout

[Aussie]

Smart people? Hey, hey, hey! Don't lump me in with that riff-raff.

I'm actually production manager of creative services at my company. Basically, I'm in charge of traffic and pre-press for our collateral. I worked in comic books in college, and I did graphic design for 8 years after that.

Thank god! We have another creative. Not that I've got anything against Nerds, it's just that I don't know how people can do jobs that are not fun.

[mwilson]

I've been a minister for almost a decade now. I still moonlight occasionally in my former profession as a computer consultant. Before that I did various forms of programming including database work and cryptography.

I know several people who became priests after professing in different careers for quite a lengthy time; in fact, a few years ago I myself considered becoming one and attending the seminary. Alas, I realized I lacked the strength to see this change through. The dream still remains, though. Who knows, one day perhaps.

[Robyn]

Not in the neighborhood in which I live (although most of the non-hetero guys are still fairly butch).

Robyn, you're not alone in the other demographic you mentioned. When I started in electronics, I was working with vacuum tubes. Also, see my new avatar :)

You may be older than Pong, lol, but I still claim rights...I am older than dirt!

I know from vacuum tubes, our first computer at White Sands was an IBM monster with tubes. My first personal computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80 affectionately known as a

TRASH-80!

[Rorschach]

haha, ya I went thru alot to get it, ALOT. 6 months was plenty of time to get my act together to get 1 though :p WOO I dreamed about it in that time period, the possibilities, o I was in tech heaven. I consumed nearly any video or review I could find on the UX. And then the day finally came when it arrived, BEST DAY EVER!!! well... 2nd best musnt discuss the first or people will be :mad:

enterman. we all hate you. However, I didn't have the discipline to save 6 months for anything at that age, so bravo.

None of the younger set have mentioned jobs, have you? School majors?

[Aussie]

Robyn, the TRS-80!

Wow my first computer, man that's a long time ago... My next computer was the Commodore Plus 4... then a 286... then...

[MeanSquare]

You may be older than Pong, lol, but I still claim rights...I am older than dirt!

I know from vacuum tubes, our first computer at White Sands was an IBM monster with tubes. My first personal computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80 affectionately known as a
TRASH-80!

Dirt? I remember when that was invented so Slartabartfast could build his little fiords :)
Seriously, I remember when Radio Shack was a power to be reckoned with in personal computing. My first PC was a 16K Commodore PET (unless you count the HP-65 programmable calculator). At the time I preferred the 6502 parallel buss and single-clock tick instruction set to the Z-80 serial bus and instructions that sometimes took more than one cycle to execute. Shows what I know. Now everything runs a serial bus and has multiple-cycle instructions :)

Starting out in the primordial stew of early computing also meant you had to be multi-lingual. At some point I counted up all the various computer languages I learned. If you include machine code and macro languages, it came out around 60 (!) I can remember the debate on whether or not you could actually write an optimizing compiler :) It tends to give one a lot of perspective when you've seen all that history first hand.

[MeanSquare]

I know several people who became priests after professing in different careers for quite a lengthy time; in fact, a few years ago I myself considered becoming one and attending the seminary. Alas, I realized I lacked the strength to see this change through. The dream still remains, though. Who knows, one day perhaps.

About half of the clergy-folk I know of are doing it as their second or third career. Some of them, like myself, knew early on this is where we'd end up, but took our time to get here. Others recognized the call only later on in life. I can't say that either way is better. I've seen very good people in both categories.

[Sprout]

Robyn, the TRS-80!

Wow my first computer, man that's a long time ago... My next computer was the Commodore Plus 4... then a 286... then...

Those were the days......
1.77 MHz Z80 processor, 4 KB Ram

Guess my age is showing too.

[UXaficionado]

I am in the finance industry but in the early 80s was into computers - I had a Commodore 64.

I am more than double the age of you, enterman.....
You are not the only one. I am 42. But I am living a dream. I grew up with Star Trek and Star Wars. Now I have a UX in my pocket. How many kids grow up to to have their toys become reality?

[Aussie]

Those were the days......
1.77 MHz Z80 processor, 4 KB Ram

Guess my age is showing too.

We had a memory expander to 8KB Ram! Not wanting to brag but - Na na, na na.. naaaa....

[mwilson]

Those were the days......
1.77 MHz Z80 processor, 4 KB Ram

Having grown up in Europe, my first ever computing experience was on a British-made Sinclair Z80 (if I even remember the model right). When I started using a ZX Spectrum -- still by Sinclair -- I thought I died and went to heaven. Mmmm... the color border bars while loading from tape. Priceless.

[Aussie]

Our TRS-80 used a real to real tape machine to load the programs... it was incredibly slow just to load a 1KB app...

[Sprout]

Having grown up in Europe, my first ever computing experience was on a British-made Sinclair Z80 (if I even remember the model right). When I started using a ZX Spectrum -- still by Sinclair -- I thought I died and went to heaven. Mmmm... the color border bars while loading from tape. Priceless.

Sinclair did the joint venture thing with Timex for those. I remember those as well....I think my watch has more processing power at this point. :)

Sorry for the thread hi-jack as well.....

NOW back to our regularly scheduled program...

[gregore]

Hi,

I'm in app developement for the gouv of Québec (French Canada) since 1999. For now, I'm working on an database app in .net. But I do averything related to a computer both for work and for fun.

I love gadgets of all sorts. My ux (380cn) is the best one. My first personal computer was a 386 dx40. The one with a math copros. With a 40meg hard drive 1meg of ram... The ms-dos don't recognise all the hard drive at the begining. I have to upgrade it (with 3x1.44 disks) to ms-dos 6.2 to get the benefit of the 40meg. In this time, 4 meg of ram was 980$Cdn...

I'm on the internet since 1994. In fact, compuserve was my first "internet" connection. I have a 1200bps modem... My friends have a 2400 and a 4800. So I pay for a 14.400 and have the fastess communication machine of the street! I remember playing for the first time wolfeintein 3d... What a revelation. And the day I stop using PCTools and only the MS-dos' shell.

Now I use Vista (on UX) and XP (at work) on a computer with many more power than the one how control the first space shuttle... but I can take a cofee befor he boot...

I'm 28 years old. I didn't know the time of the commodore or the tsr-80. But I listen to startrek and star wars too and my dreams comes true when I see the UX 380CN on sonystyle.ca

So, sorry for using this poor english, I'm doing my best and after thinking, even in my birth language I'm not really better... lol

Ciao!

[Robyn]

Dirt? I remember when that was invented so Slartabartfast could build his little fiords :)
Seriously, I remember when Radio Shack was a power to be reckoned with in personal computing. My first PC was a 16K Commodore PET (unless you count the HP-65 programmable calculator). At the time I preferred the 6502 parallel buss and single-clock tick instruction set to the Z-80 serial bus and instructions that sometimes took more than one cycle to execute. Shows what I know. Now everything runs a serial bus and has multiple-cycle instructions :)

Starting out in the primordial stew of early computing also meant you had to be multi-lingual. At some point I counted up all the various computer languages I learned. If you include machine code and macro languages, it came out around 60 (!) I can remember the debate on whether or not you could actually write an optimizing compiler :) It tends to give one a lot of perspective when you've seen all that history first hand.

Can I hear an Amen, brother? You and I are really antiquinarians. Do you remember Grace Hoppers little copper wires, or maybe a language called Databus?

[GodTM]

I am in the finance industry but in the early 80s was into computers - I had a Commodore 64.

I loved my C64. Got it when I was 7 (I'm 31 now)... still have it as a matter of fact...

Have you played with any C64 emulators on the UX? :D

[thegurio]

I thought i would chime in now im back in the land of the living...

I am a window cleaner from little old Hobart in Tasmania in Australia. I just use it for an excuse to buy all the toys i can and so far its working real well!!!

[UXaficionado]

I thought i would chime in now im back in the land of the living...

I am a window cleaner from little old Hobart in Tasmania in Australia. I just use it for an excuse to buy all the toys i can and so far its working real well!!!
I guess you have the best views in town at your job...

[leprimate]

Hello Everyone,

This is my first post! I am a Surgical Sales Rep and I've been trying to find the complete portable package that I can bring in the OR, and I can say that the UX is exactly what I had been looking for!
I have just ordered though an OQO 2, so I'll be able to compare the two and will depart with one or the other... I also have the following laptops that I've either gotten to test on the road or use on a daily base:
- Fujitsu U8240 UMPC
- Dell XPS M1210
- Vaio UX180P
- Vaio Picturebook MZX
- Vaio Picturebook MSX

Talk to you guys soon!
Phil

[MeanSquare]

Can I hear an Amen, brother? You and I are really antiquinarians. Do you remember Grace Hoppers little copper wires, or maybe a language called Databus?

I definitely remember the "nanoseconds" (Grace's way of explaining communications delays with little wires that were the length that light would travel in a nanosecond for those of you temporally-challenged folks). (Also for those who came later:) Grace is often credited for inventing the term "bug" because it was she who found that moth in the Mark II relay and noted in the log book that it was the "first actual case of a bug being found." It's obvious from the comment that the term was already being used when she wrote that.

I ran into DATABUS a few times, but worked a lot more with the similar COBOL. The thing I recall liking the most about DATABUS was the associative index method.

[milika]

I am a Serbian software research engineer working in Kobe, Japan. I do a lot of soft stuff... :p

[Rorschach]

I run MPCT full time! ;)

In an effort to be totally nosy, is this really your full-time job?

[Benz145]

In an effort to be totally nosy, is this really your full-time job?

I thought the winking smiley face would help to convey the sarcasm : P

[thegurio]

I guess you have the best views in town at your job...

Unfortunately i never get to enjoy them as im trying to be in the office more runnign the show... Having said that however the sights can be pretty impressive!:p

[LittleBrother]

I run an engineering company that builds custom equipment for manufacturing, test, and laboratory automation.

[gordoncahill]

Lot's of smart people, no creative people except me...

:(

I'm a wedding and commercial photographer. I don't know if that makes me creative though.

Gordon

[uxpaul]

I'm a .NET software developer. back in college hacked around on a SGI machine so I could serve web pages on there. back then, I was writing software for the ASUSat1 student nanosatellite program. I did java after dropping out of college and now i'm programming in c# (did VB for a couple projects but only because a vendor plugin).

bought the ux230p on a whim since it was cheap ($999). first thing i do in the morning is use the UX to check email and visit news blogs while i'm half awake in bed. i'd use it outside of the house, but it doesn't support 3g. outside the house i use a laptop with a hsdpa card.

[Rorschach]

I thought the winking smiley face would help to convey the sarcasm : P

You must learn to never overestimate me!

[MathProfJohnson]

I have just ordered though an OQO 2, so I'll be able to compare the two and will depart with one or the other... I also have the following laptops that I've either gotten to test on the road or use on a daily base:
- Fujitsu U8240 UMPC
- Dell XPS M1210
- Vaio UX180P
- Vaio Picturebook MZX
- Vaio Picturebook MSX

Talk to you guys soon!
Phil

Okay Phil- are you a member of the "more money than common sense club?" :)

Really, I mean no offense and coming from me it was a big compliment. Have you read anything from Hugo Ortega on Ubertablet.com. I think he is the founder of the club and I am just a humble member. He has like 13 UMPCs in the house and god only knows how many tablets.

You have a U8240... I am jealous :eek: . Be sure to post a review in comparison to the UX and OQO so I can decide if that will be my next toy.

Welcome to the forum!