I am the head of the engineering branch at HP Computers. An i <3 it. What kind of benefits do you get? Do you like your boss? Do you get any special facilities there (75in plasma screen Tvs in all branch centers, Cafeteria which serves breakfast and lunch, vehicle assisstance)? anything like that?

Just wanna know how you guys like your jobs. But then again, nobody likes to get up and sign in.

Pharmacy technician for the US Air Force. I have the best commander in the world and the benefits rock. Free medical, free dental, free drugs, free housing. I also live less than 5 minutes away from the hospital I work at, so I guess that counts as vehicle assistance. Also weekends are off :) My only complaint is having to work out every day before work. Running 5k's twice a week sucks, especially when I'm hungover.

I work at Gamestop. My boss alternates between being an idiotic fool and actually pretty cool. And special facilities? LOL. I detest my job, but money is money. The customers are retarded, my coworkers are absolute raving morons who can't even remember to do their own duty, and I work in a fucking mall. So teenagers, teenagers er'rywhere.

I work for Varka ._.

ExplosiveBlaziken said:
I work at Gamestop. My boss alternates between being an idiotic fool and actually pretty cool. And special facilities? LOL. I detest my job, but money is money. The customers are retarded, my coworkers are absolute raving morons who can't even remember to do their own duty, and I work in a fucking mall. So teenagers, teenagers er'rywhere.

Damn son. Sounds like you have a helluva time.

The_Communist_Party said:
Damn son. Sounds like you have a helluva time.

Keeps me out of trouble. And I won't lie, the discount is pretty awesome, at least for someone like me. And hearing nerdy little kids fawning over me because I'm a woman working at a game store adds a little bit of entertainment value.

The_Communist_Party said:
Damn son. Sounds like you have a helluva time.

You want me to sign you on at the plant?! We'd expect you to live up to company standards, but at least we don't break balls every time. You know your boss would be cool, when they want us to make everything as awesome as can be. Believe it or not i LOVE going to work.

And just because i am "the boss" I don't get to fuck around. I have to help build the PCs too. It is AWESOME!

Got anything out in Alabama? This little wolfy spends her days wishing there was something she could do from her semi-rural home to bring some money home. As it stands, I spend my days working on e621.net and twentypercentcooler.net in exchange for pats on the head, and the adoration of my fans :)

Of course, I have many wonderful fans... ;D

ExplosiveBlaziken said:
Keeps me out of trouble. And I won't lie, the discount is pretty awesome, at least for someone like me. And hearing nerdy little kids fawning over me because I'm a woman working at a game store adds a little bit of entertainment value.

Wait, you're a female? Huh. Never expected that.

The_Communist_Party said:
I am the head of the engineering branch at HP Computers.

So YOU'RE the one I should complain to that my computer of four months got 5+ bad sectors on it running nothing more than a few low-end games that I could run on my old XP comp, eh? RAEG

i work for my father at a pipe company, he is the manager, he goes hardest on me since im his son, and to top it i have to wake up at 5:00 AM and i do not get off until 4:30 PM ... the pay is outstanding though, i mean $14.50 an hour is amazing

I'm a freelance writer living on college financial aid and plasma donation money. I get no perks.

Network administrator for a privately owned company of about 5,000 employees worldwide.

I'm a firefighter.

I capture children and sell them into slave labor.

I work for the government.

I used to be a few different things - bookkeeper, book salesman, file clerk, laboratory research assistant, computer technician. Sadly, I'm unemployed.

123easy said:
So YOU'RE the one I should complain to that my computer of four months got 5+ bad sectors on it running nothing more than a few low-end games that I could run on my old XP comp, eh? RAEG

No, you should complain to the hard-drive manufacturer. That shit is usually their fault.

I work in fabrications for a privately owned metal working company. I'm also trained in circuitry and automotive mechanics. Nothing too spectacular really. I can get whenever I want off, my boss is awesome, I get free medical and dental, the pay is great, and work is a short peaceful ten minute drive down the road.

At home I work on e621 (If you really want to call that work) and I draw requests for others, (since paypal is dumb and won't accept my bank number. :|)

skeeter said:
I work in fabrications for a privately owned metal working company. I'm also trained in circuitry and automotive mechanics. Nothing too spectacular really. I can get whenever I want off, my boss is awesome, I get free medical and dental, the pay is great, and work is a short peaceful ten minute drive down the road.

More or less the same for me. App. Welder.

HOWEVER! More then once on my way to work,I have had some idiot go the wrong way on a oneway at come right at me. When I get started on my new car insurance plan, I'm getting collision, and I'm fucking ramming them at full speed. And they'd be at fault!

123easy said:
Wait, you're a female? Huh. Never expected that.

So YOU'RE the one I should complain to that my computer of four months got 5+ bad sectors on it running nothing more than a few low-end games that I could run on my old XP comp, eh? RAEG

Thou Dog is right. You may have gotten a bad hard drive, had the warranty still been good, we could have fixed it right up for you. But, it was the Hard Drive manufacturers fault the Drive may have been damaged, and most of the time if warrant does expire, we can still work something free out with you.

Oh, well thank for trying us :)

Thou_Dog said:
I used to be a few different things - bookkeeper, book salesman, file clerk, laboratory research assistant, computer technician. Sadly, I'm unemployed.

Well, feel free to fill in an application at HP, and we'll fix you right up. If you've been a computer technician, we could use a guy/girl like you. Most of the time, we let you choose your hours and everything, so come on down!

Hope to see you there one day!

skeeter said:
I work in fabrications for a privately owned metal working company. I'm also trained in circuitry and automotive mechanics. Nothing too spectacular really. I can get whenever I want off, my boss is awesome, I get free medical and dental, the pay is great, and work is a short peaceful ten minute drive down the road.

At home I work on e621 (If you really want to call that work) and I draw requests for others, (since paypal is dumb and won't accept my bank number. :|)

Well, that sounds like pretty good work. As supervisor at HP, i run on a 25,000$ salary, and if i get promoted, to executive supervisor, i can choose to run for CEO.

I like it, because there is a special back road for employees only. It goes right around the traffic, and when you drive through the checkpoint, your right at the front door.

Anyway, sounds like you really like what you do. If you ever want to apply though come on down! We have all kinds of crap down there from silly shirt day to music day, and sometimes even an optional shirt day. ;)

The_Communist_Party said:
Well, that sounds like pretty good work. As supervisor at HP, i run on a 25,000$ salary, and if i get promoted, to executive supervisor, i can choose to run for CEO.

I like it, because there is a special back road for employees only. It goes right around the traffic, and when you drive through the checkpoint, your right at the front door.

Anyway, sounds like you really like what you do. If you ever want to apply though come on down! We have all kinds of crap down there from silly shirt day to music day, and sometimes even an optional shirt day. ;)

Glad to hear we have furries in high places~

Long-term shut-in due to mental illness (hikikomori, if you are going to get all weaboo on me).

It sucks, hard, although the pay is pretty good considering I don't do anything ($250 per week).

Kitsu~ said:
Long-term shut-in due to mental illness (hikikomori, if you are going to get all weaboo on me).

It sucks, hard, although the pay is pretty good considering I don't do anything ($250 per week).

I was in that same boat for a long, long, long time.

ExplosiveBlaziken said:
I was in that same boat for a long, long, long time.

me too
but now i work part-time in accounting

Munkelzahn said:
me too
but now i work part-time in accounting

How's that working out for you?

I'm a programmer (mostly Java stuff) at a small/medium-sized corporate software developer. Most of the things I work on are only used internally, which is cool since it means I always know exactly what I'm working on and how it's being used, as opposed to having some representative come by maybe once a week if you're lucky, to check what you're doing and tell you about the things he thinks he really needs but forgot to tell you about last week.

It's not a very exciting job (oh who am I kidding, it's just plain boring a lot of the time - coding some back-end nonsense for our document server is not my idea of a good time), but the pay is almost decent, my colleagues are awesome, and I get free geek stuff like all the time.

I also have become some sort of freelance web developer since I was helping so many people with their sites and stuff that I started charging them for it. :P

Wahai said:
I'm a programmer (mostly Java stuff) at a small/medium-sized corporate software developer. Most of the things I work on are only used internally, which is cool since it means I always know exactly what I'm working on and how it's being used, as opposed to having some representative come by maybe once a week if you're lucky, to check what you're doing and tell you about the things he thinks he really needs but forgot to tell you about last week.

It's not a very exciting job (oh who am I kidding, it's just plain boring a lot of the time - coding some back-end nonsense for our document server is not my idea of a good time), but the pay is almost decent, my colleagues are awesome, and I get free geek stuff like all the time.

I also have become some sort of freelance web developer since I was helping so many people with their sites and stuff that I started charging them for it. :P

Awesome! I don't know much about writing Javascript, but hey the world pretty much runs off the internet, and document servers especially.

I like the fact that you took your hobby and made a buck off it! Before I go hired on at HP, i fixed computers for people and charged them a small fee for it.

Well, if you ever get a lay off, or you want a better place, come on down to HP.

As i mentioned, all pay in all branches is good (I think you'd be perfect for our IT team), i make 25,000 a month, we're encouraged to be funny and supportive, as for geek stuff you can choose any model you want for free!

I like HP, because they make sure that you have a life outside of work. If you are straining to get bills paid, put food on the table, and maintain yourself, they'll help you right out. Anyway, we need more Java Programmers, and then maybe Internet Explorer would be worth a crap ;)

The_Communist_Party said:
Thou Dog is right. You may have gotten a bad hard drive, had the warranty still been good, we could have fixed it right up for you. But, it was the Hard Drive manufacturers fault the Drive may have been damaged, and most of the time if warrant does expire, we can still work something free out with you.

Oh, well thank for trying us :)

Psh, trying. I'm keeping with you. Two year warranty! Already got the harddrive replaced. Also, as far as I know, all aprts are HP supplied, so. Just wish that whomever put the comp together (can't remember the model atm) didn't mess up the audio with some stupid SPD-F or w/e it's called switchback thing that prevents me listening to HDMI output on my HDTV. :<

123easy said:
Psh, trying. I'm keeping with you. Two year warranty! Already got the harddrive replaced. Also, as far as I know, all aprts are HP supplied, so. Just wish that whomever put the comp together (can't remember the model atm) didn't mess up the audio with some stupid SPD-F or w/e it's called switchback thing that prevents me listening to HDMI output on my HDTV. :<

Oh, well thanks for CHOOSING us! People like us a lot because of warranties and options, but i hope you like your model now.

Sounds crazy, but if you keep having problems with your model, we can send you any model, laptop or desktop, you choose free of charge. If you continue to have problems or just have a question, go ahead and send me a message here on e621!

P.S. If i knew the model I could tell you just about everything from Team to engineers and such.

My family and I own a farm, raising goats, chickens, guineafowl, ducks, and geese. It's a fair bit of work and doesn't leave much to show for it, but we're one of the few farms in the area that isn't being foreclosed, so I'm not going to complain. We also run a thrift store once a week, focusing on selling various goods that I win in bulk auctions. Business has been bad lately due to the economy's downturn, but at least we get in some neat stuff.

Commie, you're a supervisor and you only make 25k? I'm going to assume that was a typo on your part, or that you meant something like GBP.

Not saying anything's your fault, Commie, but I've never enjoyed an HP product lol.

I'm currently a fucking cashier at Kroger. I'd say "eh, it pays the bills," except it doesn't. Rent, bills, and groceries I pretty much break even, but then there's gas. Thank god my grandma died a few years back so I can keep living off the inheritance money until I'm out of college. Except I've had to take out loans that are now twice the value of what I've got left of that money.

The job is lame, the customers are mediocre (mostly old people), the pay sucks ass, but my coworkers are...they're ok. God. I'd rather be doing any of the things any of you mentioned -.-

I'm a year shy of a B.S. in Physics, my dream job would be to work for Bigelow Aeronautics, or the SkunkWorks division of LockheedMartin. Someone who is putting stuff into space. I legitimately want to be an astronaut when I grow up. I'd give my left nut to go into space, and both for a trip to the moon.

SnowWolf said:
Alabama

Ah, my birth state :) I have family there near Birmingham and my dad is in Tuscaloosa.

I work under the table for $10 an hour. No benefits, no nothing. If you fall, you are fired before you hit the ground. I work and go to school. Hope to be a junior systems analyst when i get my degree.

I admire you, red, for dreaming of the stares :) I wanted to be an astronaut too. :)

swamprootwolf said:
Ah, my birth state :) I have family there near Birmingham and my dad is in Tuscaloosa.

My birthstate is Hawaii, so don't go getting any ideas ;) That said, I'm nearer to birmingham myself then any of the other big ciies :)

I'm a college dropout and lvl. 40 sloth. I work at a bar in a village where old people go to die, selling cheap alcohol and mildly radioactive contraband cigars.

"Who is your daddy
And what does he do?"

RedOctober said:
Not saying anything's your fault, Commie, but I've never enjoyed an HP product lol.

I'm currently a fucking cashier at Kroger. I'd say "eh, it pays the bills," except it doesn't. Rent, bills, and groceries I pretty much break even, but then there's gas. Thank god my grandma died a few years back so I can keep living off the inheritance money until I'm out of college. Except I've had to take out loans that are now twice the value of what I've got left of that money.

The job is lame, the customers are mediocre (mostly old people), the pay sucks ass, but my coworkers are...they're ok. God. I'd rather be doing any of the things any of you mentioned -.-

I'm a year shy of a B.S. in Physics, my dream job would be to work for Bigelow Aeronautics, or the SkunkWorks division of LockheedMartin. Someone who is putting stuff into space. I legitimately want to be an astronaut when I grow up. I'd give my left nut to go into space, and both for a trip to the moon.

Well, sorry to hear that :(. By the way, I am NOT a real communist, matter of factly, I have no idea why i chose this name in the first damn place.

Anyway I suppose it's better than nothing right? Sounds like Hell sometimes though.

ikdind said:
Commie, you're a supervisor and you only make 25k? I'm going to assume that was a typo on your part, or that you meant something like GBP.

Oh, i'm sorry that was intended to be a 115k. I'm sorry, I just don't use these damn netbooks. If you don't believe me, I'll be more than happy to give you my employee Salary page "friend".

The_Communist_Party said:
If you don't believe me, I'll be more than happy to give you my employee Salary page "friend".

I'm sorry my statement offended you. I've just never heard of a company paying $25k/year to supervisors. I mean, you'd be able to do much better anywhere else, even running the local McDonald's. HP would have to be supplementing you with sex and drugs or something to offer so little monetary compensation, to say nothing of full health and dental.

Aurali said:
I work for Varka ._.

lol

Every time I see this thread I hear Ahhnold say "Who is your daddy and what does he do?"

Ratty said:
Every time I see this thread I hear Ahhnold say "Who is your daddy and what does he do?"

Ffff-- I hear it too :P

ikdind said:
I'm sorry my statement offended you. I've just never heard of a company paying $25k/year to supervisors. I mean, you'd be able to do much better anywhere else, even running the local McDonald's. HP would have to be supplementing you with sex and drugs or something to offer so little monetary compensation, to say nothing of full health and dental.

I'm sorry to comrade. I've had a meeting, a drug screening, ANOTHER meeting, possibly stating pay raises and the cancellation of Cell Phone and Tablet Devices, A Noob got hired on we all know how that was, and some rich ass guy ordered a PC with the Rolls Royce of Hardware, so i had to walk allll the way to the very end of the warehouse.

I got to leave the building at Midnight. So I'm sorry I've been short with people all day, live and "virtual", so once again I'm sorry. It's just been a long day.

Aurali said:
I work for Varka ._.

At least you don't work _under_ Varka, right? :D

ikdind said:
At least you don't work _under_ Varka, right? :D

Hey, at least then Aura would get to playtest the new Bad Dragon designs. :D

I work at a factory that makes toasters, among other things.

null0100 said:
I work at a factory that makes toasters, among other things.

I thought you worked for a train company.

Riversyde said:
I thought you worked for a train company.

No, he's just training for that position.

:3

ExplosiveBlaziken said:
No, he's just training for that position.

:3

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Sex Astronaut.

FBI field agent

This is for everyone who has to work IT for idiots! Or those who have to fix their idiot friends/parents computer.

My favorite:

Reaching over my shoulder and pressing the power button, while I was mid way through a registry edit and saying... "do you think rebooting it will help."

Sargent_D said:
This is for everyone who has to work IT for idiots! Or those who have to fix their idiot friends/parents computer.

My favorite:

Reaching over my shoulder and pressing the power button, while I was mid way through a registry edit and saying... "do you think rebooting it will help."

Oh my god. Brilliant. Fortunately I don't live near my grandmother, so my dad is her general tech support, but I do help her with something every time I'm home. Also fortunately, she KNOWS she doesn't know anything about computers and will happily do as I say. Most of the issues are PEBKAC, but asking her "what did you do" really is moot, because she really doesn't know.

My brother talked my mom into getting an android phone a couple of years ago. She's pretty illiterate. I told her that I refused to help her with anything, as he was the one who talked her into it, he was tech support. Two weeks later she's forgotten how her little screen unlock code thing works and wants me to do it. I still refused and told her to call my brother.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jguhj/whats_the_most_enraging_thing_a_computer/c2bzcgu

Edit: I just remembered a fantastic one of my own. I'd post it on that thread, but I have no Reddit account and will not get one.

I worked 5 hours a week in my school's Honors College, for my scholarship. I was basically just the office bitch. File these, run this to that office, set up these tables. No big deal. We got a new Dean a couple years ago, and this buffoon is a fool. Political Science professor, so he's full of himself. His opinions are facts. Loves to hear himself talk and asks your opinions on things just to then interrupt you and tell you HIS opinions. Anyway. I was always helping him figure shit out on his computer. Usually it was just telling him how to do something in Office 07, getting something to print, etc. The one that really pissed me off was fixing the footnotes one at a time in a 200 page book he was writing, because he didn't know how to do it and was too fucking lazy. I wanted a goddamn mention as editor in that. But this one, this one was golden.

There was some new procedure for reviewing employees. The e-mail about it came with a powerpoint presentation with step-by-step instructions on how to log in and complete the procedure. Each slide was a screenshot of Firefox, with different links or text boxes then highlighted and circled in red. His problem: "I can't log in." He was trying to log in to the box on the screen shot. "Maybe if I go back." Trying to click the Back button in the Powerpoint. So of course, every time he clicks, it advances a slide. "Wait, where did the log in screen go?" "Oh, there's the link." I told him a dozen times, "No sir, that's just a picture of what you need to do, this is Powerpoint. You have to go to your browser (he was using Netscape. This was just a year ago.) to do that." Him: "Well, maybe if I go back" -click on screen shot.- After 10 minutes of this I abandoned him and told him to call the school's IT department. I bet they had a blast doing THAT over the phone.

red - After reading that.. I now have a headache, in sympathy.

Wow, this thread is leaving me grateful that both of my biological parents are technically literate. The last time Mom gave me a tech support call, it was because my step-dad had accidentally reset their router's firmware and she needed me to look up the default admin password.

Both of my parents are reasonably computer-literate, at a user-level at least. The only thing that hasn't quite clicked with them yet is the concept of hardware obsolescence. My mother still gets upset when new programs won't run on her almost nine year old system. I had a good laugh when she asked me to install Windows 7 on it!

Also, I have the good fortune to work at a place where knowing how to properly use and abuse a computer is mandatory, so no problems there either. The only tech-related nonsense I have to deal with that isn't part of the job itself are the eternal discussions about whether or not Apple products are complete crap. PROTIP: They are. :P

Sargent_D said:
This is for everyone who has to work IT for idiots! Or those who have to fix their idiot friends/parents computer.

My favorite:

Reaching over my shoulder and pressing the power button, while I was mid way through a registry edit and saying... "do you think rebooting it will help."

My stepmom once took our computer to the shop because it wouldn't start up, due to the 3 1/2 floppy still in the slot. Of course she never consulted anyone first, before making this decision.

Under the table landscaper (aka as close to being a Mexican Laborer without being latino). My family also owns a lot of land, and since I'm the only able-bodied man around, I get to take care of it all as well. Hard, hard stuff when you have nobody to work with.

I'd very much like to move into the city and train to be a barber or something, but the country has proven to be difficult to run from. At least I get Internet, eh?

SnowWolf said:

That said, I'm nearer to birmingham myself then any of the other big ciies :)

I'm sorry :( If you ever have to go through Wylam, lock the doors and load the gun.

Well Now I work for Samsung, yippie?

I'm employed by Wabash National, maintaining semi-trailers in the FedEx Ground shop $14.15 per hour. I have dental, vision, and health through the company. 2 weeks paid vacation. I've been working the night shift for the past 2 and 3/4 years. 10 at night to 6:30 in the morning.

My shop manager is a likable fellow. He's a good mechanic, but I doubt his managerial skills, and he gets treated a bit poorly at the main facility. I see him on most mornings. My co-workers are good guys.

The FedEx shop could be better equipped, but we can perform most repairs. Heavy frame or body damage is sent to the main building.

It's a decent job. It supports my guitar addiction and fuels my truck.

I'm a web software developer at an IT company with about ~5000 employees. It's nice making $70k/year a year after graduating from college, but everyone that stays here does so either because they have a family/kids and don't want to move, or because they didn't get hired at Google.

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Q8A3 said:
I'm a web software developer at an IT company with about ~5000 employees. It's nice making $70k/year a year after graduating from college, but everyone that stays here does so either because they have a family/kids and don't want to move, or because they didn't get hired at Google.

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Sounds better than working for those spying google bastards anyway.

I'm a full time college student but I work part-time as a Certified Nursing Assistant and as a member of my school's IT department. Both my bosses are awesome. One likes to go out to dinner, her treat and the other gives me spare parts to fuel my addiction to computer building. Other than not really having to drive to one and basic health insurance from the other no real benefits. Neither one is bad considering I plan on going to law school when I graduate.

IT for a damn High School of all things.

sounds like everyone here has some kind of job in IT. I wanted to do IT for some time, but i knew more about building a computer than I did programming one. Even though I am required to have an advanced understanding of IT.

Sounds easy though. The people in HP's IT department have it almost as easy as the people in our SRS/Beats Sound Department. The people in IT get paid to sit on their asses and tap on a keyboard, and the people in sound get paid to sit on their asses and listen to songs.

The_Communist_Party said:
sounds like everyone here has some kind of job in IT.understanding of IT.

I don't. I work at a grocery store. Even when I finish my degree, I will not have an IT job. Fuck working in IT, that sounds awful.

I'm pretty sure Princess Celestia's firewomaning isn't really IT related, either.

The_Communist_Party said:
sounds like everyone here has some kind of job in IT. I wanted to do IT for some time, but i knew more about building a computer than I did programming one. Even though I am required to have an advanced understanding of IT.

Sounds easy though. The people in HP's IT department have it almost as easy as the people in our SRS/Beats Sound Department. The people in IT get paid to sit on their asses and tap on a keyboard, and the people in sound get paid to sit on their asses and listen to songs.

I... I want to hurt you really badly right now for saying that. >_>;;; "tapping on keyboards" marginalizes what they do to such a point that.... ARGH! Just. No.

123easy said:
I... I want to hurt you really badly right now for saying that. >_>;;; "tapping on keyboards" marginalizes what they do to such a point that.... ARGH! Just. No.

Hey buddy I'm just kidding :P. Our IT team is great at what they do. As I see it, our IT department is a very important part of the Company. Without IT, we would be nothing.

IT is great though. It's those bastards in Sound that i "despise". The bastards listen from everything to R Kelly and Jay Z, and make a shitload.

By the way, when I say "Sitting on their asses and tapping on a keyboard" I mean in a since that the people in Engineering, Stocks, and even in parts of legal move... A LOT. I'm not implying IT is doing a bad job.

The_Communist_Party said:
the people in sound get paid to sit on their asses and listen to songs.

So uh...how would one go 'bout getting into such a career?

I work for Bad Dragon, doing CEO stuff.

It mainly revolves around sorting out company-wide improvements, consulting with everyone to figure out solutions to problems, writing documentation, identifying and fixing bottlenecks, and doing public relations / interviews etc.

I also do a crapton of coding, as that's what I graduated in (CompSci). I also fix the label printers, fileserver, CCTV system and basically anything IT related.

On the side, I run e621, an ad network, and keep the infrastructure that keeps all the sites I host running (which fortunately doesn't take as much time as it used to). I also help out when some serious shit goes down with the ISP that hosts e621.

Sometimes, just sometimes, I get to do the thing that got my started on all this: designing dongs.

Varka said:
I work for Bad Dragon, doing CEO stuff.

It mainly revolves around sorting out company-wide improvements, consulting with everyone to figure out solutions to problems, writing documentation, identifying and fixing bottlenecks, and doing public relations / interviews etc.

I also do a crapton of coding, as that's what I graduated in (CompSci). I also fix the label printers, fileserver, CCTV system and basically anything IT related.

On the side, I run e621, an ad network, and keep the infrastructure that keeps all the sites I host running (which fortunately doesn't take as much time as it used to). I also help out when some serious shit goes down with the ISP that hosts e621.

Sometimes, just sometimes, I get to do the thing that got my started on all this: designing dongs.

Sounds like you have it good. If I get promoted to executive supervisor as I said, I can run for CEO of HP, and after serving a number of years as CEO (Meaning that the Company hasn't removed me) I can run for president of the Company.

I don't know if I want to run though. Some of my Co workers there said I would make a great CEO, and I could count on their vote, but It's A LOT of responsibility. Even more so with a Multi-Billion Dollar Corporation, and even MORE so because our current CEO screwed things up royally. Bastard.

Example everyone thinks we have stopped making PC's. It really helps seeing as how he didn't even get the word out to news networks and limited it only to Social Networking Sites. That has already dropped us thousands.

Anyway, enough about my problems. That sounds like an awesome job, and e621 is a finely run site.

mosh_grizzly said:
So uh...how would one go 'bout getting into such a career?

Well, It's a little harder than it sounds. You have to know about the different tones, bass, everything that has to do with sound.

There are one or two songs used for testing, but I never go into the testing room, so I only know these three. I heard the third one today.

1. Jay Z Girls, Girls, Girls INSTRUMENTAL (Perfect for SRS Trubass testing)
2. R Kelly Ignition Remix (Good for Beats audio)
3. Sean Kingston ft. Paula DeAnda There's Nothing in this world (allows for a good check over of the Beats Control Center)

You are required to have a College degree, Preferably in Music and Sound or whatever. You have to have a good understanding of math, and along with that (not implying anything) any criminal offenses LOWER your chances of getting hired into any branch, and the use of alcohol or drugs on HP property is strictly prohibited. (showing up to work with a hangover earns you some strong words, showing up high results in a call to the cops)