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Offline Phage

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Re: Current Careers & Aspirations
« Reply #15 on: December 28, 2015, 10:09:00 pm »
I do a few things.

#1 I'm currently employed as IT-project manager in a decent company. Currently working on getting two web shops ready for post-christmas sale and developing a payment solution with BTC to our eCommerce software.

#2 Styding Informations Technology at university.

#3 F16 simulator instructor. These are military grade simulators.

#4 Tacher in a youth club. This job is two evenings a week, where I mainly hang out with the kids, play some playstation, table tennis etc.
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Re: Current Careers & Aspirations
« Reply #16 on: December 28, 2015, 10:27:14 pm »
I do a few things.

#1 I'm currently employed as IT-project manager in a decent company. Currently working on getting two web shops ready for post-christmas sale and developing a payment solution with BTC to our eCommerce software.

#2 Styding Informations Technology at university.

#3 F16 simulator instructor. These are military grade simulators.

#4 Tacher in a youth club. This job is two evenings a week, where I mainly hang out with the kids, play some playstation, table tennis etc.

Do you take speed so that you dont have to sleep or what?

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Re: Current Careers & Aspirations
« Reply #17 on: December 29, 2015, 12:13:02 am »
I'm currently a student and working mostly as web dev, which I love. I'm mostly developing Joomla! and Magento custom extensions and solutions and a web app every once in a while. Also a little bit of system administration and customer support, neither of which I like too much.

I like to write code so I spend much of my free time studying different programming languages and lately IT security. I'm hoping to get a job as a dev or in sec after I finish my masters degree.
« Last Edit: December 29, 2015, 12:16:21 am by iikibT »
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Re: Current Careers & Aspirations
« Reply #18 on: December 29, 2015, 04:08:17 am »
I work at the university that I attend. I am a teaching assistant for the intro CS course. Additionally, I work as a research assistant in my school's Compiler and HPC lab.
And I have a part-time job working at a pharmacy.

I don't plan on pursuing a career in security. I want to do something with machine learning and predictive modeling/analysis.

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Re: Current Careers & Aspirations
« Reply #19 on: December 29, 2015, 08:18:00 am »
 I am a .NET Developer and want to clear certification for CEH or TESTER , Looking for the job change in Cyber Sec.

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Re: Current Careers & Aspirations
« Reply #20 on: December 29, 2015, 12:54:22 pm »
Do you take speed so that you don't have to sleep or what?

Nope, no drugs. But I don't have much free time on my hands.
"Ruby devs do, in fact, get all the girls. No girl wants a python, but EVERY girl wants rubies" - connection

"It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law."

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Re: Current Careers & Aspirations
« Reply #21 on: December 29, 2015, 03:54:36 pm »
I work in the Active Directory team and have been given the thumbs up from management to join a 2 year development program where I can choose four teams to spend six months with learning or getting certified in that particular area (networks team and getting a CCNA for example...). This is a huge stepping stone to a career in Security.

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Re: Current Careers & Aspirations
« Reply #22 on: December 29, 2015, 04:10:00 pm »
I am a .NET Developer and want to clear certification for CEH or TESTER , Looking for the job change in Cyber Sec.

If you can pay, go to the OSCP... CEH is nearly a crappy certification. To demostrate your skills with a multioption test isn´t the best way.

Regards!

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Re: Current Careers & Aspirations
« Reply #23 on: December 29, 2015, 08:34:43 pm »
Well, I'm employed as a generic workplace IT administrator in a kinda large (~300 workplaces) company, doing whatever needs to be done - tech support, user troubleshooting, computer repair, hardware repair, app development, all sorts of scripting on servers in all kinds of languages... The TV show "IT crowd" sums my job pretty well :D and it's my dream job... and I didn't go to any university or college.
But one day I'd like to try out a security-related job...

Your work description could have been written by me :)
I love my job just because of the variety of tasks and atmosphere.

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Re: Current Careers & Aspirations
« Reply #24 on: January 01, 2016, 09:56:16 pm »
I just went into high-school, but its really cool how many of you have jobs in IT and deep interests in the great subject too.

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Re: Current Careers & Aspirations
« Reply #25 on: January 01, 2016, 11:32:14 pm »
I'm currently completing my highschool education online, but when I'm completely done with school I plan on being a game developer. But I really don't know entirely what I want to be yet. I know I definitely want to do something in computer programming but I'm just not sure if there's another realm of it out there I'd enjoy more.


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Re: Current Careers & Aspirations
« Reply #26 on: January 06, 2016, 03:59:58 am »
I work at a restaurant.  ;D But hoping to start at an I.T. job this upcoming summer. Also hoping to attend college and double major in Software or Electrical Engineering and Entrepreneurship. 
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Re: Current Careers & Aspirations
« Reply #27 on: January 23, 2016, 10:25:56 pm »
Nope, no drugs.

That's what they all say.

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Re: Current Careers & Aspirations
« Reply #28 on: January 24, 2016, 12:48:59 am »
I'm an IT security & PCI-DSS consultant.
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Re: Current Careers & Aspirations
« Reply #29 on: January 24, 2016, 05:29:37 am »
I work as an Evidence Analyst at a Cyber Crime Investigation based Company.
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