What is your daily grind???

[Doppelgänger]

So, who does what for work around these parts?

Guess i'll start off.
I do quality assurance testing for ECHOSTAR. What is that? Well, if any of you have DISH, I test the various software updates to make sure they work...so when you want to see whats coming on next week, the guide shows it. Hate pixelated channels? I try to make sure it's not in the software and that when you do see it, it's interference with the sat. What does actually mean though? It means I sit and watch tv ALL DAY LONG. Yes, this also means testing the adult channels to make sure they work too :lol: I also get to know what we are working on for the future...and let me say this... there is goign to be some COOL **** in the near future. Ever hear of SLING? Yeah, we do that too (not me directly though :( ) Is anyone starting to get sick of all the buttons on new tv/cable/sat. remotes? I thought so. You next remote will work more like an i-phone...and that's all i can tell you ;)

Before this, i did laptop/desktop computer repair and support. It was more or less a junior IT job that was all on the job training. I really liked the work because it was expansive and there was always something to learn. Maybe i'll get back into it someday.

[RotorNutFD3S]

I work for Yamaha as a Materials Control Specialist. Basically, along with the group I'm a part of, we make sure that all the parts we need to build our vehicles are getting to the plant on time. At this plant we make the ATVs, WaveRunners, Rhinos, and Golf Cars. We're about to release a super high-performance WaveRunner with a whole new design, and we've made some changes to the Rhinos too.
Going out onto the plant floors is like seeing "How It's Made" in person. It's actually very interesting to see what goes into the production. On top of that, the benefits here are freaking awesome all the way around.

Before this I worked for AutoNation as an Inventory Manager. Now I realize how much that job sucked as I was working anywhere from 60-75 hours a week (usually Mon-Sat) to make what I do now in a Mon-Fri 40 hour/wk job. Plus, no more manual labor. But hey, a job is a job no matter how bad it is. I appreciated even the last one because I had quite a few friends that were not able to get anything for real work.

[Sawyer]

My job isn't as glamorous as everyone else's :(
I'm a server at the Chili's in PTC. I am basically the customer's slave.
As I would love to get a real 9-5 job, I can't get anything full time until I'm done with school. Which means I'm stuck at Chili's for the next ~2 years.
I guess I can't complain too much, the money is good, but some days I don't make enough for the kinds of customers that I have to put up with.

[jesseealexander]

^^ **** i wanna do what mike does haha.

i work at opm. :) we build, rent, and maintain some pretty competitive spec miatas, along with 2 or ita cars and a spec e30.

[Acro]

My daily is playing with dogs all day :P I work at at doggy daycare on Ponce in Deactur..Pets Playhouse On Ponce. It is an absolute blast :p

[RotorNutFD3S]

My daily is playing with dogs all day :P I work at at doggy daycare on Ponce in Deactur..Pets Playhouse On Ponce. It is an absolute blast :p

Must be a ruff job...

OK, so not such a great joke. :lol:

[Jack-MX5ATLanta.com]

My job isn't as glamorous as everyone else's :(
I'm a server at the Chili's in PTC. I am basically the customer's slave.
As I would love to get a real 9-5 job, I can't get anything full time until I'm done with school. Which means I'm stuck at Chili's for the next ~2 years.
I guess I can't complain too much, the money is good, but some days I don't make enough for the kinds of customers that I have to put up with.


**** the serving industry is tough, I feel sorry for you!


My daily is playing with dogs all day :P I work at at doggy daycare on Ponce in Deactur..Pets Playhouse On Ponce. It is an absolute blast :p


That's awesome. The perfect stoner job :lol:

I work as a Valet Parker at Athens Orthopedic Hospital. I park cars and cripples. I spend nearly the whole time sitting there saying "hello, goodbye" occasionally parking a car but more often than not helping somebody in and out of their car. It's easy as buggery and pays very well. It's just ridiculously tedious especially having done it for a year now. It pays so well for a student $10/hr + some tips.

I also run this place, which recently has taken up more time than my real job!! But I actually enjoy this place. I'm primarily a full time broadcast news student at UGA though.

[iJohnnyC.]

All of your jobs sound pretty cool. I like, TV, Food and ATV's...so, I'm in good company for sure!
I work for a small sub-contracted drafting company. We use CAD to produce shop drawings and material take-offs for aluminum framed windows and doors for commercial buildings. Our work can be seen anywhere from Miami to Rhode Island, basically, anything on the east coast. Most of our work is in Atlanta. If anyone has seen the new Kumho Tire distribution center somewhere in Henry Co. built a year or so ago, that was me. (I'll post pics later)
I also am Tech Support for a CAD-Based Material take-off software that basically prints an entire part list at the click of a button vs. days of writing it all out by hand.

[amaff]

I fix data storage arrays :D

[metalman]

I fix data storage arrays :D


I fix ice storage trays.....is that similar?. :lol:

[Doppelgänger]

Ohh ohhhh right now i'm watching Nine Inch Nails: Beside You in Time. It's jsut a recorded show... but pretty damn cool because it's looks almost identical to the same set they just used for their recent tour.

[thx712517]

Saturn of Marietta, parts consultant. Sounds fancy, right? I sit here and goof off on the Internet when we're slow, and when we're not I take orders from retail/wholesale/internal customers, look up and order them their parts, deliver parts, do cashiering, file invoices, and work on keeping the inventory in check. When we're busy I put about 100-175 miles a day on our delivery truck, listening to my iPod with the AC blowing. It's a decent little office. Pay is **** though. Hourly plus commission, and even though our department is the ONLY department to be in the black on a monthly basis, we don't get raises. Everyone else does though.

I also get to put my car up on a lift whenever I feel like it, which is nice when you need to do an oil change. Plus I get to play with cool junk and talk about cars and tuning all day. Somebody please buy a Saturn, we're so slow....

[metalman]

even though our department is the ONLY department to be in the black on a monthly basis, we don't get raises.


This reminds me of my wife's former occupation...an NICU nurse.
This is a highly skilled nursing profession involving the delivery and care of premature infants...some weighing less then 1 lb.
Her department would make millions in profit, the adminstrators and the like would get a huge salary & bonus...but folks in her position, actually doing the work, would get a thank you letter....oh, and sometimes a free turkey worth about $10! :lol:

[Jack-MX5ATLanta.com]

Bastards!

[Doppelgänger]

I remember back in the days work working at Toyota Mall of Ga. Teh suck. I got hurt on the job though, colleted workers comp for 6 months :)







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[amaff]

I fix data storage arrays :D


I fix ice storage trays.....is that similar?. :lol:


close :rolleyes:

[Grantri]

I sell tires, great BIG tires

I work at Toby Sexton Tire Co here in Loganville. We retread aircraft tires for use on heavy equipment and ship those puppies all over planet earth("logistics also falls to me to handle ). We also sell new ,used & retreaded OTR tires, truck tires, and new car /light truck tires ( we are a Toyo dealer).

Basically I talk to people on the phone and computer all day about big black rubber things .

[nderwater]

i'm a communications manager at a bank. let the excitement commence!

[metalman]

Woohoo!! Banking!!! :lol:

[RotorNutFD3S]

Hey, I need some money!!! Gimme!!!

[Doppelgänger]

mmmmmmmm monies









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[ToddN]

I try to spy on people. Actually, I try to spy on companies. I'm a software engineer for a competitive intelligence company. I write robots and spiders to crawl the internet and dig up information on companies.

[RotorNutFD3S]

I try to spy on people. Actually, I try to spy on companies. I'm a software engineer for a competitive intelligence company. I write robots and spiders to crawl the internet and dig up information on companies.


Now that's pretty damn cool!

[Jack-MX5ATLanta.com]

That's very cool!

[FE3tMX5]

I draw pictures. :cool:

[metalman]

I try to spy on people. Actually, I try to spy on companies. I'm a software engineer for a competitive intelligence company. I write robots and spiders to crawl the internet and dig up information on companies.


Now that's pretty damn cool!


It is cool. I have Todd digging up info on you guys right now, and evidently some of you have been masturbating while riding on Marta! :lol:

[RotorNutFD3S]

I try to spy on people. Actually, I try to spy on companies. I'm a software engineer for a competitive intelligence company. I write robots and spiders to crawl the internet and dig up information on companies.


Now that's pretty damn cool!


It is cool. I have Todd digging up info on you guys right now, and evidently some of you have been masturbating while riding on Marta! :lol:


That's not the worst I've done... :jawdrop:

[BFH miata]

I'm a Landscape Architect. I work on a variety of projects including landscape, hardscape and pool designs for apartment complexes, downtown streetscape renovations in historic towns and greenway trails. In the past I have done a lot of high end residential design, but my current employer doesn't do much residential stuff. I do everything from preliminary design, cad work, permitting and construction supervision. Unfortuantely, I spend more time behind a desk than outside.

[lance]

[quote=Doppelgänger]
So, who does what for work around these parts?

Official title is Global Head of Process Engineering.
That means I get to spend a lot of time on planes traveling all over the world working on process problems. As a reward you get a lot of frequent flyer miles which you can use to .........travel some more??

Spend my free time restoring Morgan Sports cars

[Roadster]

I work at a machine shop that specializes in old school domestic V8s, with an emphasis on big block Ford racing engines (drag, road race, mud trucks, monster trucks, boats, restorods). Usually in excess of 1000hp, carbed, all motor. Sometimes closer to 2000 on the nitrous motors. We have an engine dyno as well. We do all kinds of custom machine work and fabrication.

I've been there for a year and a half and have learned tons, but it's pretty complex (and sometimes backbreaking) work. An iron 460 weighs....well....a lot more than I do. It's fun though. I get to use all the machines, tools, and the lift whenever needed. It's a great place for a gearhead to be. I'll be sticking around there for a good while. :P

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b304/NismoSER/P10808122small.jpg

[RotorNutFD3S]

And I hate you for having one of my dream jobs. :butt:

[JennB]

I account!

No really, I'm an accountant. Specifically I am the head of accounting for the American division of a European supply chain management software company. My company designs, sells, implements and maintains our own custom software packages for retail businesses of all shapes and sizes. I handle the money. I do it all...the financial statements, monthly taxes, budgetting, payroll, invoicing, AP... everything. I invoice customers for millions in license fees, ten or hundreds of thousands in consulting services and whatever else needs to be done. I prepare the budget and then throughout the year manage pretty much everything that goes into it, decide on how to spend our money and how to save our money. I do a little HR crap here and there as well since our HR department is in France and well, that leaves a few gaps for our local employees sometimes. Also, I occasionally get to go to Europe for meetings. All of my departmental supervisors and colleagues are in Europe so it makes my day easier... no one calls or e-mails me for anything after noon. lol.

I love my job. I have technically been with the company for 5.5 years but only as an official employee in Atlanta for a little over 3 years. I worked at a public accounting firm and did the accounting for my company but on an hourly basis. Once the workload got heavy and the monthly bills got a little high, they decided they needed someone on site and on salary and that person was me. banana

[MeFryRice]

I am the project coordinator for the OEM division of Pilot Automotive.

It pays the bills. :)

[Doppelgänger]

What is Pilot Automotive?






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[MeFryRice]

http://pilotautomotive.com/

We are the parent company of DC Sports/DME, APC, NRG, Racing Sports Akimoto and a couple other lines as well. :)

[Doppelgänger]

discounts? hmmmmm

Didn't DC Sports uesd to be their own company? That company was teh **** in the late 90's.

[MeFryRice]

AEM used to own DC Sports. I can't really go into details about that though.......

[Doppelgänger]

Did they always own DC?

[RotorNutFD3S]

No, AEM bought DC Sports in Jan. of '03 IIRC.
And then DC was sold in Oct. '07. Didn't know that Mitch Williams (guy behind the buying and former SEMA Chairman) was at Pilot though. Hell, didn't know Pilot was Pilot. :lol: Which also means he's the one responsible for buying DME and the dying APC line for Pilot.

[MeFryRice]

DC Sports were originated by two guys (I can't remember their names off the top of my head) and then they joined with AEM.

[RotorNutFD3S]

DC Sports were originated by two guys (I can't remember their names off the top of my head) and then they joined with AEM.


Darrick and Darrell Contreras. 1987.

[MeFryRice]

Thank you. My mind was blank for a minute! :(

[RotorNutFD3S]

You're welcome. I cheated a little bit. I couldn't remember how to spell their last name.

[Doppelgänger]

yeah, im thinking of 1999-2002 years when i was getting into cars and having DC parts was teh win. Does anyone remember the DC Sports turning Integra in Gran Turismo 2? Betcha don't :D



tried finding a picture from GT2, but could only find someone that replicated it on Forza

http://i35.tinypic.com/2yv5g8w.jpg

[jesseealexander]

^^ do you remember the speed world challenge car? lol thats what that car was in the real world.

found a pic, not a great one though. http://www.nsxfiles.com/images2/tcc_8_02_944_qual_race_small_grid.jpg

[simontibbett]

I work at Road Atlanta and detail cars on the side.

[simontibbett]

yeah, im thinking of 1999-2002 years when i was getting into cars and having DC parts was teh win. Does anyone remember the DC Sports turning Integra in Gran Turismo 2? Betcha don't :D



tried finding a picture from GT2, but could only find someone that replicated it on Forza

http://i35.tinypic.com/2yv5g8w.jpg



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N5uAFB-TTQ

[redrumracer]

I dont really have a job per say. I only work 6 hours a week and 2 days a week, so i dont really consider that a job. also it doesnt pay the bills, my student loan is doing that right now, but it does provide gas, and its minimum wage.

[Jack-MX5ATLanta.com]

Ah I thought DC sports was the shoe company.

[Sawyer]

Close, that's DC Shoes!

[MeFryRice]

Ah I thought DC sports was the shoe company.


No but that is my favorite shoe company. I'm wearing them right now. :D

[Jack-MX5ATLanta.com]

Are they in anyway related??

[MeFryRice]

nope! :D

[MoD_Scotty]

I'm currently a student at ASU in Augusta. I WAS an arabic linguist in the USAF for 8 years (no I'm not an Arab, I learned the language while I was in the AF). After I graduate, if I don't go to the Atlanta Institute of Music for bass, I'll most likely go back to work for the gov't as a civilian.

[Doppelgänger]

I bet you could make some great salary as a translator. I wish this country was more adament about teching other languages BESIDES Spanish. I took some German in highschool, but it was not enough to really teach a language.

[MoD_Scotty]

Yeah, I get offers for $180K/yr all the time.............in IRAQ. While it'd be nice to pay off my house in one year, I don't like the idea of being dead. Plus, I want to finish my degree. Iraq will still be there when I'm done.

[Doppelgänger]

Damn, that's a hell of an offer. I have seen job postings for stuff over there with insane pay, but like you, i like to be alive most days :lol:

[MeFryRice]

I took German in H.S. as well but since I don't use it on a daily basis, I lost everything I learned. :(

I want to take either Chinese or Japanese though.

[RotorNutFD3S]

I'm learning Japanese right now. I've wanted to learn it for a long time, but I also want to know what they're saying when I'm at work. :lol:

[Doppelgänger]

I didn't loose everything... just about 99% of it :lol:

[MeFryRice]

After watching SuperCars Exposed last night, I want Tanner Foust's job! :D

[Doppelgänger]

It's def. not a bad job :lol:

[Jack-MX5ATLanta.com]

:cool: In all seriousness, that's the kind of job I'm going for. Taking productions classes and doing a package on the current car culture for the University news station.

[Doppelgänger]

We need more decent automotive-based shows here... most of them flat out suck.

[MeFryRice]

I wonder how bad the Americanized version of Top Gear is going to flop?

[RotorNutFD3S]

Worse than a dying fish...

[Jack-MX5ATLanta.com]

We need more decent automotive-based shows here... most of them flat out suck.



I wonder how bad the Americanized version of Top Gear is going to flop?



Worse than a dying fish...


First he created mx5atlanta... Second he created mankind... Third and finally he created the best Automotive based US show ever...

his name Jack Maddox

banana

[RotorNutFD3S]

:lol:

Well, you got 1 out of 3 so far... :clap:
And you'll only be able to achieve one of the two remaining. Sorry. :)

[Doppelgänger]

I forsee the US TopGear being so sponsored by companies that a true opinion cannot be given if it would involve them.

[RotorNutFD3S]

Yup. The thing I like about TopGear is that it is relatively unbiased, they'll give a thorough review of anything. I don't think that will happen here.

[MeFryRice]

No, Americans would get too butt hurt.