I'm interested in what day jobs hackers on here have? I'd like to see what the mix of people working IT related jobs with side projects vs non IT related jobs with side projects. IT being the usual admin, developer and designer type positions.
And its always interesting in general to see what other people do for a living.
Ask YC: What's your day job?
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#2no day job here... "all in."
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#3Consulting and contracting, with a variety of technologies. My profile has links to my pages, which have this information in more detail. Does yours?
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#4I'm a networking systems engineer but my heart is in software development. I've developed small programs to assist my day to day tasks, take part in open source projects, have written a blog or two to discuss technology as I see it and my book reading list is endless. In a year or two I see myself transitioning into the software side of the company after acquiring my degree and having some of those side projects to showcase what I can do. I guess I could say that I am currently and primarily a systems hacker by day-job, and software hacker by hobby with the goal of making it a profession.
Asking a question is great on HN, but you should preface it with your answer to your own question... not a hard and fast rule obviously, but for questions like this it would certainly be nice to hear about what you do too. :)
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#5Software developer in a large company.
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#6There was a poll recently on this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=223846
I'm, well, we run a startup. :-)
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#7Freelance coding, currently python web stuff.
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#8I'm a web R&D manager for a bank.
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#9Startup.
Before this one, I had another one for seven years (at some point it stopped being a startup and became a very modestly successful lifestyle business, which wasn't really what I was aiming for, so I shut it down). And when I get bored with this one, I'll start another.
I've frequently done contract work, on the side, to make ends meet. Even some quite long projects with great small companies--including another startup. But I've always known I would own my own business...since I was a kid. And I've always planned and acted accordingly.
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