Ask HN: What's your job?

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I'm just curious. Are most of you CEOs of your own startups or part of someone elses? Or are you in larger companies as programmers and some day want to create a startup?

Are there any IT/security auditors here? What about non-tech jobs?

As for me, I'm just finished college so I am job hunting at the minute. That's why jobs are on my mind. To fill my free time I'm working on a website.

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I'm a college student currently doing a software engineering internship - really learning a lot and working with a large .NET project.

Wish you the best of luck with the website you're working with - personal projects are always good :)

I just graduated from high school and am starting to work on my second company full time. The first is still profitable and being run by my co-founder. Also starting to look for a co-founder on this next project.

Congrats on your success! How did you get funding for your first company?

Thank you, first company was bootstrapped. Second is for now but will eventually raise money or look at accelerators.

Working on my own stuff

Anything cool? Do you aim for it to become a business?

Majority of the stuff I work on are generally for personal use or solving a personal annoyance/pain point. A good chunk of them ends up being launched as good side businesses as a byproduct but they weren't done with the intention of such.

I previously did a "traditional" startup in 2007 (scaling, hiring, etc..) and sold that company in 2009. Now I pretty much just focus my time on projects. I have a huge preference to do 1 man projects/businesses vs doing a large startup again. Its more fun.

As for anything being cool, its totally subjective.

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