Ask HN: What do you do?

I'm the Tech Recruitment Manager for a large social networking company and I run hackerjobs.co.uk as a side project. I also organise HN London in my limited free time.

I'm a contract IT Project Manager, mostly working for banks. I found out about HN when Michael Arrington covered it on TechCrunch the first time.

Do I like what I do for a living? It has it's crap moments but I'd say it gives me a certain amount of satisfaction. I like the variety, and the fact that there is a tangible change that's evident after I complete my efforts. I'm not running a line function that is the same day after day.

However, if I ever win the lottery you wouldn't see me for dust...

I am currently a master student at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam studying "Information & Knowledge Management" which is a business administration specialization. Currrently finishing up my master thesis on ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system implementations. I am studying the relativity of implementation success, simply put: The success of an enterprise system (ES) depends on who you talk to, and when you talk to them. Consider the high failure rate (complete or partial) of large scale ES implementations it is a very important topic to research. Not to mention that these are usually very expensive and require massive business process reengineering. I should hopefully finish in a month or two.

Once that is done, I am returning to my native Stockholm, Sweden to find a job. Hopefully it will be something interesting haha. Time will tell, thesis takes priority over finding a job at the moment.

Mechanical/Aerospace Engineer. Not very challenged at work and fascinated with what some people on this site are doing.

While reading news articles I usually google whatever I wanna know more about, that's how I stumbled upon HN and I've been a regular reader since.