yea i`m a computer geek too--it is fun

 

UniqueTII: how hard is your job? as in, what all do you have to do, I have gotten an offer to do admin work for a uberlarge database, and I am wondering what kind of crap I am going to have to learn if I take this job



(uberlarge = easily into the multiple terabyte range)

 

I deliver Pizza.

 

Parts Manager for a golf car company. Similar to passenger cars, but a lot simpler.

 

Another computer geek... I work for a phone company and run the ISP in 2 states.... and future RX-8 owner

 

hell yea rx8 is da ****

 

I work in the engine room of ships. I retired from the Alaska State ferry system and now work for the Washington State ferry system. I've worked on a lot of engines, but now mostly 12 & 16 cyl Electromotive Diesel(EMD), of from 2000 to 5000 HP. I've worked on steam ships with 35,000hp(up to 900ft.) Its still a rush to start one of these big engines up. We had one suck a piston a few years ago, it put 220 degree hot oil 10ft up the bulkhead(wall), of the engine room. Lucky, no one was standing next to it.

Its kind of interesting to work on the injectors of my rotary that are a couple inchs long than go work on injectors that are over a foot long.

I've only had a computer for a couple years(can always use advice from you computer types out there), but the controls on our engines and for that matter the whole engine room(fans,pumps, engines, etc), is run by computer.

 

Just graduated College, for mechanical engineering (designer), working full time and just bought my graduation gift to myself (My 1990 RX-7 Turbo II).



Spike

 

I sit in a Network Security office. I don't do ****. I try to have sex with as many girls as I can.

 

My job is pretty simple. We use MS Access 2000, and I go to a good Access forum to learn all of the stuff I don't know. I got the job with absolutely zero db experience, and have picked up enough to get by pretty quickly. We don't have any really huge databases, but I don't think they'd be too much to handle unless the person who built them wasn't very good at it.