It People In Canberra?

[BlackR32]

Hi All.

As is in the title:

Who here in Canberra works in the IT industry and what do you do? and as much to the point what would you LIKE to be doing?

[Guest]

I'm a hardware person for a computer vision software company in Canberra.

I do a bit of programming, and sys admin also. But my main role is hardware system design, in electronic, mechanical and medical.

[S T A R 3 3]

I scan products in front of a red laser and a currency pops up in front of me. I repeat this step until completion.

I'd rather be passionate about something and following whatever that may be.

[Baconer]

I work in labour in an apprenticeship on a farm, sort of like IT :X

[Godzillr]

IT is a great industry for work and salary especially in Canberra, it has been great for me. Yes, most of us would love to be passionate about what they do (a few are lucky to be paid to do what we are passionate about but most aren't). I mean who wouldn't want to be a highly paid professional racing driver or some other highly paid sports star with the associated benifits??? Unfortunately the hard reality is that most of us will never achieve this in our chosen profession. The important thing is that we get some job satisfaction and enough $$$'s to be able to live a quality life and don't forget the friends we make along the way.

BTW I am a IT systems engineer.

Next career. Maybe something in the Financial Services sector. Dream job? some highly paid sports star with heaps of beautiful groupies woman chasing me

[Bluprint]

I'm an IT Project Officer for Dept. Industry, Tourism & Resources.

In my position I've got to be whatever they need me to be regarding IT. My main work centers around web design & development with a fair bit of database design as well, and Access/VB(A) programming.

I co-manage the website for the Australian Building Codes Board (The current site is prehistoric and sucks arse, hence we're making a new one at the moment).

The rest of my stuff is IT equipment work, specialist hardware/software setup for our branch that isn't covered by the department's service desk.

I'm a jack of all trades if you will.

I like my job because of the opportunities that I'm given, I get to do training whenever I ask for it (more or less) and I work in a pretty good team.

I suppose the downside (if you could call it that) is that because I'm a pube I won't get the $$$ that working in the private industry will get me but the security of a permanent public service position is something I really like.

And I'm about to start doing a bit of website/database work on the side as well.

[leech_]

my title says "Systems Engineer"...

[GeeTR]

I sell rock cocaine to school kids that own computers, and who use the "wikipedia, flickr and myspace"

Does that count?

jokes, im a java programmer who sips Pepsi Max, munching on caffeine tabs, sitting in front of 4 24" LCD monitors, backed by $30k worth of server hardware, and hack satellites in my spare time

jokes, im the creator of spam and want your ebay account details

Serious jokes, im a TSO geek, that does a little bit of everything in the small to medium business i work with.

I don't really care what i do, i just wanna make the $$ to pay for my cars, friends and fun...

(this has been written while jaded and looking for another job)

Edited July 3, 2007 by GeeTR

[S T A R 3 3]

  S T A R 3 3 said:

I scan products in front of a red laser and a currency pops up in front of me. I repeat this step until completion.

I'd rather be passionate about something and following whatever that may be.

haha.. I'm not really a check out chick

I work in Medicare and am an IT Business Analyst.. monitoring and recording stats and figures about pharmacy stuff.. not all that great.. but PJ's is right across the road!

[Baconer]

haha was gonna say, remember you mentioning it somewhere working at medicare and being miserable

do you know erin prothero?

[StinkyPoo]

  Bluprint said:

I'm an IT Project Officer

Lol, I didn't realise you were a IT project officer. You know you guys probably create more work problems for others HAHAHA(not for me, some other IT Project teams do that).

Me, I'm the one who sits on the phone pretending to know these new projects, and try to fix them.

[Bluprint]

Actually, a lot of the time I'm chasing up the "mishaps" created by the department's IT division, and getting them corrected

Edited July 3, 2007 by Bluprint

[race_snooze]

private sector... Cant tell you any more than that.

Public / Private Key Infrastructure Admin.

[Guest]

  leech_ said:

my title says "Systems Engineer"...

Me too.

[Kwyjibo]

I'm currently studying IT at UC, still working payroll though, too lazy to actually try find an IT job now.

[CEF11E]

Help desk team leader.

for a government organization that owns a private TV network.

I have 2 staff and i made them both buy turbo skylines (really)

hehe.

[low200]

My title is:

Software Testing Co-ordinator.

In reality i get other people to test and i supervise.

ACT govt and IT = InTACT.

pretty decent money for a 21yo.

[BlackR32]

  CEF11E said:

Help desk team leader.

for a government organization that owns a private TV network.

I have 2 staff and i made them both buy turbo skylines (really)

hehe.

Would that be at Transact? hmmm Transact aren't actually gov though... where you at?

[MIVEC]

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do you know erin prothero?

I do. She sold her car yet?

[Baconer]

The 200sx or her new vegan mobile ?

200 sold sometime early last year and dont know if she is selling the kia, how do you know her btw?