What's your day job?

[Monochron]

I was previously a software engineer at NetApp, working on enterprise data replication and data recovery in the OnTap operating system. We managed data movement and backup across clustered storage setups, mostly SAN. It was primarily C and C++ programming with some perl and expect scripting thrown in occasionally.

I left NetApp recently though and am currently looking for other employment, hopefully with more of a focus on hardware or robotics. If anyone knows of any good openings in the RTP, NC area, let me know!

[z_beeblebrox]

High school student here, but I'm an intern at Steward Observatory Radio Astronomy Laboratory at the University of Arizona, working on developing inflatable space-based and balloon-borne terahertz telescopes for mapping cold galactic gas. I've worked there since last summer, when I got to design and build a camera system for attitude determination of a high-altitude balloon (out of laser-cut plywood of course) that flew on a NASA balloon in September.

[team4187mentor]

I work for Continental Tire in the Maintenance department. I started as an electrician for automated machinery and moved up to supervisor. I currently work as an administrative supervisor handling scheduling, payroll, and reports. My bosses have been wonderfully supportive of the team and allow me to adjust my schedule according to the teams needs. Continental is also a big sponsor of the team.

[josephno1]

I am a courtesy clerk at Vons , probably not as exciting as all the Engineers over here but hey I gotta start somewhere.

I am a Robotics Rookie

[techhelpbb]

Originally Posted by josephno1

I am a courtesy clerk at Vons , probably not as exciting as all the Engineers over here but hey I gotta start somewhere.

I am a Robotics Rookie

Hey look at it like this:
I've worked in plenty of mail rooms.

[James1902]

Currently i'm working as an Online Producer on The Wirecutter and The Sweethome websites. Basically I take guides written by very talented writers, editors, and freelancers and I load them in and make them look good on the site. I also do a significant bit of image editing.

[jvriezen]

I'm a software engineer/product architect working on data replication/high availability software for 'backend' commercial data systems (IBM i, specifically). The primary language I work in is C.

[nighterfighter]

Currently in college, but I am an intern in the Information Technology department for a medical group in the metro Atlanta area, with 5 major hospitals and lots of urgent care centers and specialist centers.

I actually work in an office though, researching software solutions as well as writing code/scripts that assist the main program that our nurses/doctors/surgeons/etc use when interacting with patients, to ensure accuracy of medication.

I've been rotating languages between some SQL, C#, VBA, AutoIt Scripting Language, and whatever random things I need to do for the job.

It might sound boring, especially compared to the cool things that some people here do, but making sure that the information about patients is both accurate (and secure) is important also.

[RoboDawg]

Signal Inspector, BNSF Railway, Kootenai river subdivision (northern Idaho and northwest Montana. 10th year of mentoring (tenure?).

[uutzinger]

Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arizona.
Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Affairs.
I do research on optical imaging for diagnosis (find me on google scholar).
I teach Biomedical Optics, Bioinstrumentation, Introduction to BME, Rotation of Engineers in Hospital and I am working on Sophomore Design Course for undergraduate students.
I take care of our undergraduate curriculum and make sure we are accredited and fix any issues we might have with our 200 student program. For a while I was department head.

[Anthony4004]

I'm a sophmore in college studying mechanical engineering by day.
FIRST addict by night.

But in reality, I've also been hired by Smart Vision Lights as their CAD designer for the past year. Get to design actual products every day, go to technical meetings with companies, and be apart of trade shows. Not too shabby for a guy without a diploma.

[ratdude747]

Things for me have changed, so I'll post it.

I'm a "New Products Engineering Specialist" at Arvin Sango in Madison, IN. I start this Monday.

[Mr. Ackroyd]

Previous life out of college, I was a Manufacturing/Quality Engineering for seven years at a Fiber Optics company that was number one at it's height. Things went bust when the tech bubble burst and we were bought out by a world competitor. I saw the writing on the wall and transitioned into teaching Technology Education. I wanted to steer kids into a path of engineering.

I've been teaching at Ballston Spa for eight years now and in that time I helped start FLL where we now have eight teams each year. A high school coach started FRC in that time and we always had conversations about the gap between FLL and FRC when students came in at ninth grade. So, three years ago I started and FTC team for 8th and 9th graders to bridge that gap.

This year I took over the FRC and bridging that gap has paid off. When the FTC season is complete, I bring the 9th grade members onto the FRC team. This has truly allowed us to train down skills to the younger students while in the midst of build season. It really helps out during off season fall events and the young students can jump right into the fun of FRC

[Eric Scheuing]

In simplest terms: I take water, add electricity, and make gasses.

[marshall]

My day job is to tell companies how to migrate their existing IT infrastructure from its current state into a future state while simultaneously balancing the needs of the C-Suite and all of the various business units. It can be challenging but I feel like wrangling high school students has prepared me for dealing with executives.