General Discussions

**foobar** · 11-03-2004, 08:51 PM

So, I thought it would be nice to get everyone a little more. What do you do in life? Student? Where do you work? I thought it might be nice to get to know each other a little.

Personnally, I'm a college ctudent studying Computer Science. I hope to specialize in cryptography or agent programming.

I work in a grocery store *groans*. = I'm also the webmaster for the Student Association at my College (www.assofxg.com), and have a also done some websites as one-time contracts.

On the side, I have two projects: my own site XNet-Nine (www.xnet-nine.com), and am working with a friend (Archie here) on Surreal Visions, an ORPG site.

What about you guys?

**Anacrusis** · 11-03-2004, 09:20 PM

I'm the owner and operator of ClubHouse Hosting, A successfull hosting company.

I also work for a local company as a data warehouse specialist utilising SQL Server and MS Analysis Services. I also do some Informix 4GL programming for them.

**Christopher** · 11-03-2004, 09:41 PM

No profession yet

**techwench** · 11-03-2004, 09:53 PM

Internet Support. Although, our entire IT department provides support for our internet (DSL/Dialup) customers, as well as internal Network/Hardware/Software support. It doesn't pay nearly as much as it should...but at least it pays the bills.

**mixtr** · 11-04-2004, 09:07 AM

No profession. Currently studying Economics.

**Dark-Skys99** · 11-04-2004, 11:42 AM

None yet still school.. but atleast when I go sixth form next year I get paid for going

--James

**cjvj** · 11-04-2004, 11:46 AM

No profession....

Student

**thevirus** · 11-04-2004, 02:55 PM

I find it interesting how quite a many webmasters are young kids, I am also a kid well im 16 and I have a job at bobs. Yes jobs stink but hopefully I will get enough money from my website to pay for gass thats all I care about I hate my job! But I hope to start an online buisness with my dad when I get older either web design the cut throat buisness or web hosting.

**pencer** · 11-04-2004, 03:15 PM

Now i really do feel old at only 30!

Anyway i'm one of the three founders of Glass Enterprises Ltd. Which started out in life about four years ago as three friends getting together to write stuff in C++. Fast forward to today and we provide a whole host of services to other businesses and individuals alike. Successful and growing fast we sometimes can't beleive it ourselves!

Its much better than what i used to do, which was working for a textile company called Marks and Spencers. Where my job was to check that all jumpers in a batch were the same colour!

**Tamzin** · 11-04-2004, 04:05 PM

I am an affiliate support grrrl at a finance company, which means I get to be online all day and help out affiliates who have any issues with their accounts etc. I have spent a lot of years in my bedroom tinkering away at web developing, and occasionally get to do a bit of it when an affiliate requires something like a banner or pages for their site etc. so that's the extra fun part of my job =)

Other than that, I'm your textbook nerdgirl =) Don't judge me! =)

tam
xo

**TimSchroeder** · 11-04-2004, 07:17 PM

Great thread. I think I'll sticky it.

It's interesting to here about what other people do.

I'm 27. I graduated with a Management of Information System Degree.

I currently work full time for an online software company doing search engine optimization work for them (something my degree didnt help with). I work from home.

I also own Webmaster-Talk.com and a slew of other web sites and internet projects.

**DaveMo~** · 11-04-2004, 08:02 PM

I work for that guy! -----^

Dave

**Jamesanderson** · 11-05-2004, 08:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pencer

Its much better than what i used to do, which was working for a textile company called Marks and Spencers. Where my job was to check that all jumpers in a batch were the same colour!

Lol, Try dipping ceramic door knobs into a bucket of glaze all day.

Moved on from those boring days and now work for Podium Solutions Limited where I’m being trained the art of SEO. The company is based in Manchester so I had to move from my home town of Axminster (yes where the carpets are made) in Devon. If I wanted to stay the only alternative was staying on in the six forms (the carpet factory that is).

Ive now started my own project called the SEO Forum Watch where I report on the latest SEO discussions going on in a number of webmaster forums, this being one of them

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**Kiwidesigner** · 11-05-2004, 09:26 PM

I work full time as a Web Designer - love it

**lufc** · 11-07-2004, 04:39 PM

im another student, currently doing entrpreneurship and business

**webmassive** · 11-07-2004, 04:50 PM

My profession is xhosting.com and soon webdesign

**Minaki** · 11-08-2004, 05:14 AM

I'm the senior web developer for a company who make Geographical Information Systems (Advanced mapping systems, basically) for government authorities. I work on the web based version. You can see it here:

http://eggp.ggpsystems.co.uk/eggptest

I dropped out of College and never went to Uni, but I live the student lifestyle cos all my friends go to Uni...

**Jdawg** · 11-08-2004, 02:23 PM

I gradutated from college with an "Interactive Designer" diploma a year ago. I'm Currently 21 and, I'm a web designer for an Information Technology Firm - http://www.siriussolutions.com. Where I do a combo of web updates, and web site creation (design and development).

I also put out a monthly newsletter relating to IT which can be seen here: http://www.siriussolutions.com/star.html.

I'm working my way out of table layouts and working on CSS and web standards.

**sponsorchat** · 11-08-2004, 04:28 PM

I am a salesman for a large company and just started my webmaster resource site for fun.

**compmodder26** · 11-09-2004, 10:53 AM

I am the Webmaster for the University of Kentucky Alumni Association. I manage their main site (ukalumni.net) as well as their merchandise site (kentuckygear.com). I also run my own small recipe web site (recipes.tzo.com). And I am also a Senior in college getting my degree in Decisions Sciences and Information Systems.