EMS helicopter pilot. Before that offshore helicopter pilot. Before that military helicopter pilot. If Uncle Sam had trained me to do something lucrative I would be doing that.

Majored in CompSci, been programming since logo on a C64 in the 3rd grade ( that should date me some ).
I've programmed professionally, but mainly do Systems Admin stuff
Hobbies include Photography, AV, and general Tweaking.

coming late to the thread i am a gadget geek, retired/reformed lawyer, and now run a very large insurance agency (you are in good hands)

Draftsman; Worked in pulp and paper; petrochemical; and now doing residential custom homes. Gadget geek; I have a Curta calculator and a Casio CQ-1.

I'm a major in Psychology. I was a double major (Psychology + Computer Science) but I thought that having to write code on paper for an exam was a pain. Though the research and work I plan on doing is still computer related (Human Factors)

life: gadget freak, motorbiker (or will be when my 1995 Triumph Sprint is fixed up), father of 2.

career:
electronic engineering graduate
-> embedded micro and radio systems programmer and hardware integrator
-> internet consultant (before anyone ever heard of it) and web-site developer (remember Netscape server?)
-> senior systems admin at an ISP
-> internet consultant and web developer at a startup
-> senior systems engineer at an e-commerce division of a large bank
-> web developer at the above ISP (who went bust, got bought, sold twice)
-> senior systems engineer at an internet search start-up

phew! and I only just turned 41, so a few years left for a few more changes of career!

Education: BA in English Literature
Passion: Computers, especially the tablets
Job Title: ? ... Admin Assistant? Document Control Person? Occasional PHP/MySQL programmer?
Father of a toddler

Dabbler in everything, master of none. Therefore, extremely dangerous.

I always feel so out of place. Among techies, I'm always the one with almost no formal training. Among artsies, I'm always the hard-headed techie type. And I always know enough about a subject to enter a conversation, and then get myself in trouble.

Still haven't found what I'm looking for.

Math, Electrical Engineering some 30 years ago.
Worked on compilers, OSes, embedded stuffs, routers,....

staying home for now and about get my butt back to work...

too lazy to send out resume ....

I'm a post-doc doing mainly (active) thermography work (for non-destructive testing). Lots of data analysis, image processing, etc.

Before that PhD (vehicle driveability analysis) and degree in Mechanical Engineering with German.

I learned Basic and VB as a kid, then OPL using a succession of Psions (Psion Organiser II, Psion 3, 3a, 5), programming using VB/VBA for my father's company (wrote stock control and invoicing system for a car dealership as the car supplier didn't do one and I said I could do better than paper stock records - interesting work, especially talking to the non-computer literate people who were using my system to work out what they wanted/didn't want).

At uni did some placement work writing/tweaking CFD code (FORTRAN) and now deal mainly in MATLAB and Simulink with a bit of C and C++ thrown in for good measure. I learned C to program my Zaurus and picked up C++ along the way as some of the day-job involves tweaking other companies' code to do what I want it to.

I'm a senior programmer/analyst for a medium sized life insurance company in New York State, USA. I program in C++, VB, Java, and Cobol. My first PC was a Radio Shack TRS80, which I upgraded to 16k of RAM. I wrote an arcade game for the Commodore 128, which was published in Compute's Gazette Magazine. I run Linux on my home PC's (and N800) and love it because it makes computers fun again. Just like the TRS80, C64, and C128, I can tinker and configure for hours on end and never get bored with it!