Career/job industry poll

Just curious to see how this poll pans out considering the interesting and unique demographics we have here at SimHQ.


Which career/job industry are you currently working in?

Mine is "partly retired" in addition to the one I picked!

Why no love for engineering/technical jobs. :P

I forgot to include an "OTHER" category. I could have listed 20 careers but I was too lazy for that.

None of the above.

Retired is looking good,but not totally unexpected.

Partially retired too, I do some IT work to earn some pin money.

Yeah, no love for the engineers here???

I come from a many varied background, Electronics, security systems, precision engineering, even to painting cars in a bodyshop, marketing, and of course, the family hotel.

yup many and varied, now learning a bit of woodworking ... have router will travel

No student category, therefore I abstained.

Looks like, for now, this place is full of old codgers.

No high tech?

I work a trade which isn't listed.

Jim

RETIRED... my day, wake up, go to the gym, come home shower... play video games, wife comes home at 5, eat dinner, more gaming or TV at night... when I get bored I go to the gun range, go to lunch with friends on my motorcycle, or go fly my drone... all that said, starting to get bored, after 6 months of retirement... might get me a part time.

Cattle ranching isn't listed either...

Not listed.


Wheels

I've been retired for almost seven years, and I know the feeling. However, since a I bought a new, to me, house last year, I am no longer bored. Now there aren't enough hours in the day.

So right now it seems SimHQ has quite a bit of retired folks and IT nerds!

None of the above - education.

None of those, you needed an Automotive industry

Lesson learned: Include more options when creating a poll.

Except "student" can NOT be on that list. Unless you are being paid a living wage to take classes, that is.

Even retirees are usually collecting pensions and/or social security and/or investment income, so while they are not employed per se they are still earning money.

Being a student is not a job nor a profession, it's what one does before/in between/after working in one, and requires paying to be able to do it (notwithstanding grants/assistance/auditing). It may be your current activity, but does the statement "I'm a student for a living" make sense?




The Jedi Master

My job category is law enforcement - but it's not exactly the first thing that comes to people's minds.

Been disabled for almost 2 years fighting the big C. I am hoping to get back into the rat race this spring. I want something stress free and with a short commute. I also believe in Santa Claus.

I WAS a Financial Systems Analyst in healthcare IT for 16 years for a small town hospital. Now we are "managed" by a large state university run healthcare system and I was simply moved over into the entity IT security group. Its a bit different from what I was doing but it's interesting and just seeing how many holes there are is frightening.

I have almost doubled my net income attending college, and believe me, going back to school at age 65 is WORK. I have to work to keep my GPA up to keep some scholarship money rolling in. Going to have to slow down starting this fall I'm afraid. Too much stress and work for an old fart carrying 4 classes.

CLASSIFIED

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Top secret F-35 test pilot?

I work with financial services (payroll) but not in the financial services industry

hmm nothing I can vote as...

I work as an "Environmental Services Technician"... fancy name for someone that works on water tanks and cooling towers to prevent Legionella... basically I survey, sample and then clean 'em... mainly on rooftops

I didn't say it wasn't work, just that it's neither a career or job.

You may increase your pay from an employer by taking classes, yes, but then that is where you are making your money.
Neither the school nor another entity is giving you money to take classes until you retire, with benefits and sick and vacation days and such.

If there was, I'd sign up! Quit this job and just take classes 40 hrs/wk until I retire in 15-20 years? Ok! Pay me at least 60k and you've got a deal!




The Jedi Master

+1

Funny, no politicians. Mmmm............

No career for me, too many 300+ pound cupcakes in my way.

DoN T700-GE-401C Equipment Specialist GS 11/10 Specific enough?

Meter maid?

Scientific research here, so no category that fits.

none of the above : Flight Dispatcher/ aviation

Vinz .... "Meter maid?"

no, .... I'm a courthouse guard outside the restroom areas

Seems a place that shouldn't need guarding...?
Last thing I want is someone outside in earshot while I'm...going about my business.



The Jedi Master

yep, sales basically

Currently working in business aviation as a pilot , and no, I don't intend to become an airline pilot when I have enough hours (if only I had a dollar for every time I have been asked that question ).

Not where I want to be but paid well enough to shut up

I think that's were a lot of people end up.

Work to live, don't live to work.

Actually, I LOVE my job. Always have. Been playing this game now (in one way or another) for almost 40 years.

I tolerate my job and it has its occasional rewarding moments but for the most part I work to pay the bills.

I used to hate my job but took a new one a year and a half ago and enjoy it quite a bit now. It's still WORK! but can be enjoyable as well.

I just 'snapped' one day and decided to leave a job I'd held for 35 years with no real idea what I was going to do. I was really low at the time and when you hate your job that much I decided it's best to get out.

I'm really happy now,life is greatly improved

When I was out of work for 18 months, I tried changing careers, but had no success.

Part of it was I didn't have any experience doing anything else, which pretty much meant interest in me for things was pretty low, and part of it was I've never had a "dream job" that I always wished I could do.

Well, when I was in high school and college I'd thought of various things, but when I graduated I sort of fell into IT and never left. I would enjoy it except I don't like dealing with users.



The Jedi Master

Going the self-employed route is most definitely NOT for everyone and in fact, it's really only ideal for a small percentage of people. You have to be incredibly motivated and persistent to make it as a self-employed person (ie willing to work 60+ hours a week, constantly thinking of getting new clients, etc.)


I tried the self-employed thing with NY Life back in 1998 and I lasted about 2 months.

I did it for twenty-five plus years and having only one job on your resume makes it next to impossible to find one where I am the employee. The first problem I was consistently running into was that they felt I wanted the job so I could "steal" their clients and start a new business. Going through the hell I went through to keep things going for those twenty five years I wouldn't start another company on a bet...


Wheels

I have always been lucky in that I never had a boss that I had a problem with. I have had some upper management people who made me crazy sometimes, but never an immediate supervisor. I have heard many people talk about how much they hated their boss and it sounds like a crappy position to be in. I have been lucky with co-workers (for the most part) too. That makes a big difference in a working climate.

Now , later in life, I just want something I can pay the bills with. Something with a little stability would be nice, but I know those days are gone. If I can't get back into the IT field ( they seem to be only interested in younger people), I don't know what I'll do.

Was in Scotland finishing off a job for our Glasgow office and getting ready to head off to London for the following day as I had a big presentation to do. Then the Scottish Regional Manager said I had to go to Oban and do an evening demo for the Town Council that evening. A few months prior I had done the survey of the town for locations and type of camera, even made a big splash in the newspaper The Oban Times.

I said No, I have to drive to London for an important presentation for head office and if I don't leave soon then I would not get there in time, plus if I drove to Oban, did the demonstration and then drive to London I would run out of hours and would not be able to complete the journey without a mandatory day rest.

Well I got threatened with allsorts of mayhem including the loss of the contract, I was a subcontractor providing CCTV expertise to an international security firm, the manager rambled on and said he was going to take it up with the managing Director in London ... that was when he found out that it was the managing director that had booked my services for the job in London

Anyway, we managed to arrange a low loader to take my vehicle overnight to London and I got to sleep in the cab of the truck on the way there. They needed 2 drivers to do the journey as, again, one driver would run out of hours before reaching London. Cost the Glasgow branch quite a bit in expenses to have me ferried south.

A couple of years later we lost the contract as the company said "they could do it better and cheaper in house..." 3 months after that I was approached by the company to come on board to run their CCTV survey/demo dept. as it just didn't work for them

Great story Alicatt and I'm glad how everything ended up working totally in your favor!

Oh there are lots of tales working for them

Not all of them worked out like that, I arrived in London at 06:30 nipped into a local office and had a shower, change of clothes and drove off into Hackney to the townhall there, we had won the contract to install the CCTV across all of Hackney and this day was the big switch on. I was parked outside the town hall and got hit by a double deck bus that swung too close to the pavement, bent the door frame and ripped off the mirror.

Like having an exhibition in the big hall of a brewery near Newcastle ... and nobody showed up. Talk about not being able to organise a piss up in a brewery They didn't live that down for a while.

Or setting up a exhibition at the same hotel complex as a competitor and getting all his customers The competitor was not a happy bunny and complained to the MD about it, I was given a talking to about it, and then I got a Great Job, well done from him.

Or giving a talk to a military base on how lax their security was and putting the wind up the officers so bad that they were checking under their cars when it was time to leave.

Yep we had some fun times.

It was only after Tyco International started meddling in the way the company was run that it became less fun. I left them and went to a security equipment manufacturing company to advise on prestige projects.

I'm just a part of the Matrix now. Struggling at times to get out. Used to be an add-on.

Also now I feel like an add-man at times. Over Linux. lol. And why?
Because after 20 years of tech knowledge while using Windows I realize now what time I wasted. Had I just stuck with fundimentals, meaning Unix and some programming and run Linux or BSD or any Unix instead of Windows I would have the benefit of the 15 tears I wasted on Windows and other foolish pursuits.

Believe me that equates to thousands of hours of knowledge (and hundreds of thousands of dollars) I wish I had just now instead of having to play catch-up.

I'm coming out of retirement but I never really retired, so thus I did not vote in the pole.
Sorry for the rant but touched bit of a sore spot.

I surmise the poll is answered anyway. Its fairly apparent most all SimHQ members are middle to senior / or retired. Many are ex-military or have an interest in such. As well as gaming and technology.
Some are active military.
The younger ones are usually active military or students.
Most people flocked to SimHQ between 1998 and 2002.

I don't need to make a whole marketing study and spam up the site with statistical refereer and ad-trackers to tell you that they'll probably buy that CH joystick with the Thrustmaster pedals. They don't play Candy Crush or whatever - do they?
They are not twenty-somethings.
They don't need 47 scripts with tracker beacons to sell them something.. lol!

Excellent analysis there FsFoot.

Pretty close...
IT industry (BI)

Executive director IT at cable TV network, and after 6 years of "always on" I'm thinking it's time for a change. Chances are I will never make the kind of money that I get for my current job, but being able to go home and turn it off is sounding very good these days.

Firefighter pilot, thousands of sims hours can't be wasted in a regular flight job.

I'm disabled so entered retired.

Currently unemployed, was a tradesman.

If my health situation improves I'll be going into the landscaping and martial arts teaching business.

Trimming trees with judo? Novel approach!



The Jedi Master

Hassan chop!!