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Ask HN: What do you do for a living?

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Please keep your answer brief and generic (i.e. no company/product names), only state a single occupation per reply, and upvote an existing reply instead of submitting a duplicate. Feel free to comment under an existing reply, if you want to get more info or state an opinion...

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Subaquatic Ceramic Technician

Nice. How did you get there?

Love to tell you, pal ... but us dishwashers are skeptical of outsiders.

Not sure if OP is joking, but I knew a guy in grad school who did underwater ancient archeology. He spent every summer scuba diving in the Black Sea pulling up old pots. Sounds like nice work!

Vehicle commander on a CV90[1] in the Swedish Army.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_Vehicle_90

Software QA. <voice persona='Ed Grimley'>As manual as manual could be, I must say.</voice>

Currently: Front End Developer. Hopefully I'll be transitioning into e-commerce business sole proprietor soon.

Marketing Junkie, Operations Handler and Growth Hacker by day, partial coder and blogger by night.

Now a startup CEO but my background is in project/program management and software engineering

Opinion... I hate that the only person who will see the number of results is the OP.

software engineer

Possible equivalent titles: Developer, programmer, architect, engineer, hacker

Sometimes, not always. People call themselves "engineer" a lot, but have no idea what "engineering" really is, which is more of a focus on the process than the technology. Therefore, developer and programmer are theoretically distinct from "software engineer" in strict terms. Too bad no official certification process exists for software engineers as does other fields of engineering.

Not yet, but perhaps soon [1]

[1] http://theinstitute.ieee.org/career-and-education/career-gui...

Titles should correspond to different things. But the lack of an enforced standard makes them meaningless. The actual practice in the workplace will have you doing the same thing. The practice of creation.

It will mess up the count if creators are divided by nonstandard titles.

I agree that it's too bad that there's no official licensure process (at least in the US). Strangely enough, when I asked on HN and reddit there seemed to be a lot of hostility to the idea. [1][2]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6318923

[2]http://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/1lmnjq/thoughts...

Credit Risk Specialist by day / web developer and writer in the early a.m.

Data scientist (statistician)

Student, and occasionally, freelance graphic and web designer.

Entrepreneur, Technology officer and a full time geek.

customer relations and PR specialist at an insurance company and software engineering freshman

Systems / Network Engineer

Financial Analyst (FP&A)

Medical insurance software.

IT client support...

Front office quant

Merchant Mariner

security analyst / pentester

developper and student

student

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