What do you do for a living...

[glk]

Retired. Was a geek at Bell Labs and helped usher in the modern word of digital everything.

 

Now I make coffee part time (when I'm not golfing, in our place in Chucktown, or visiting our great Western states) for locals and tourists here in the smokies.

[RIRider]

Machine Millwright at Acushnet Co. 27 years next month.

 

Keep losing them! We'll make more!

[Shipwreck]

I watch people sleep. Through a video camera. On a computer next door.......I’m a polysomnogram tech and a Respiratory Therapist. Both are terribly boring and can’t wait to get a different career.

[Cajunmike]

I'm a retired trillionaire that used to live on Pluto.

 

So is Pluto a planet or just a big rock?

[RainShadow]

Medical Imaging (CT/Radiologic Technologist)

Also know as meat processing....lol ( or cooking vegetables)

Looking to do something else, but I’ve only got about 8-10 years left until retirement, and the pay is pretty good in the right environment.

The field has changed for the worse the past 7-8 years.

[Joe V.]

Machine Millwright at Acushnet Co. 27 years next month.

 

Keep losing them! We'll make more!

So no chance you play K-sigs then? :-)

[SilverBullets]

Medical Imaging (CT/Radiologic Technologist)

Also know as meat processing....lol ( or cooking vegetables)

Looking to do something else, but I’ve only got about 8-10 years left until retirement, and the pay is pretty good in the right environment.

The field has changed for the worse the past 7-8 years.

 

My wife is a Rad Tech... she recently moved back into X-ray for a network of outpatient facilities (hooray no more weekend and call). While the stress is down and hours are better, I think a big part of her misses her last job (interventional radiology).

 

I am a IT Audit Manager within the internal audit group at a oil and gas company. As boring as it sounds, I enjoy it. Moving on to new projects every 2-3 months is great. Working with different people from across the organization is nice. In the right audit department, things will always be moving, always changing, and always evolving.

[RainShadow]

Medical Imaging (CT/Radiologic Technologist)

Also know as meat processing....lol ( or cooking vegetables)

Looking to do something else, but I've only got about 8-10 years left until retirement, and the pay is pretty good in the right environment.

The field has changed for the worse the past 7-8 years.

 

My wife is a Rad Tech... she recently moved back into X-ray for a network of outpatient facilities (hooray no more weekend and call). While the stress is down and hours are better, I think a big part of her misses her last job (interventional radiology).

 

I am a IT Audit Manager within the internal audit group at a oil and gas company. As boring as it sounds, I enjoy it. Moving on to new projects every 2-3 months is great. Working with different people from across the organization is nice. In the right audit department, things will always be moving, always changing, and always evolving.

I worked in IR for several years early in my career, but the call/stress just killed my enthusiasm for that modality. Glad she found a balance. I get the "miss it"thing though.

I have found that I don't want to do Large hospital work any more.

Much of what I learned there has traveled with me into other jobs and opened unique opportunities for me. I love CT, don't have call currently and work 3/12's for a stand alone ER that will be open in February.

[irsihmen453]

Navy enlisted floating around on a Destroyer.

[ThinkingPlus]

Navy enlisted floating around on a Destroyer.

 

Thank you for your service. Greatly appreciated.

[Qqq123xx]

I'm a retired trillionaire that used to live on Pluto.

 

So is Pluto a planet or just a big rock?

It's no longer a Planet. That's why I left. After putting up a massive fight of course, to no avail.

[SilverBullets]

Medical Imaging (CT/Radiologic Technologist)

Also know as meat processing....lol ( or cooking vegetables)

Looking to do something else, but I've only got about 8-10 years left until retirement, and the pay is pretty good in the right environment.

The field has changed for the worse the past 7-8 years.

 

My wife is a Rad Tech... she recently moved back into X-ray for a network of outpatient facilities (hooray no more weekend and call). While the stress is down and hours are better, I think a big part of her misses her last job (interventional radiology).

 

I am a IT Audit Manager within the internal audit group at a oil and gas company. As boring as it sounds, I enjoy it. Moving on to new projects every 2-3 months is great. Working with different people from across the organization is nice. In the right audit department, things will always be moving, always changing, and always evolving.

I worked in IR for several years early in my career, but the call/stress just killed my enthusiasm for that modality. Glad she found a balance. I get the "miss it"thing though.

I have found that I don't want to do Large hospital work any more.

Much of what I learned there has traveled with me into other jobs and opened unique opportunities for me. I love CT, don't have call currently and work 3/12's for a stand alone ER that will be open in February.

 

Ah she needs to find a gig like that. I think what she doesn’t like about her current role is working 8-5 M-F... better than working weekends, better than taking call, but not better than working 4 10’s or 3 12’s like she did in the past.

[hebron1427]

Recovering lawyer

[Chief Illiniwek]

I grow corn and soybeans with my dad.

[Edaw68]

Cop

[RIRider]

Machine Millwright at Acushnet Co. 27 years next month.

 

Keep losing them! We'll make more!

So no chance you play K-sigs then? :-)

 

That would be, no. :-)

[ptburke]

Commercial real estate - apartment development / acquisitions / management

[ZAP]

Elementary PE teacher and HS boys golf coach.

 

So yeah I play games almost every day and nearly all day.

[Reb58]

Safety manager for a large industrial EPC company. Previously taught, and operations management

[Jacked_Loft]

Day job: Professional club fitter at a premier fitting center for a large OEM.

Nights: Jazz musician.

 

I love my life.

[onetime19]

I run a auto repair business my father started in 1978, life is good!

[Warrick]

I saw a couple guys reply - Auditor.

 

You guys are a pain in my Word not allowed.

 

I am a Security Analyst for the largest commercial broker on earth. I swear I am working through audits 8 months of the year.

[Pendragon63]

I ran big box stores...KMart for 20 years, Office Max for 7...then ran a golf retail store for 19 years until I retired in 2014.

[SilverBullets]

I saw a couple guys reply - Auditor.

 

You guys are a pain in my Word not allowed.

 

I am a Security Analyst for the largest commercial broker on earth. I swear I am working through audits 8 months of the year.

 

That's frustrating. Seems like you have a group which is too heavily focused in one area. That or your area is of such high risk that it comes with the territory. I tend to believe Audit departments are beginning to focus way to heavily in security. Obviously its critical and very high risk. IA needs to have a presence in that area, but, IA shouldn't try to be the security department. Some departments I work with feel like they need to be the security department. We don't, nor should we, have the expertise to play that role. I like to focus my group on value add proposition reviews. So how and where can the IA department inject themselves to provide value to the organization. I try to get our department away from the pure check the box compliance exercises (i.e. SOX, PCI, etc... thing we have to do but shouldn't be the only thing we do). I look for areas of IT like SDLC projects and any other major initiatives (Asset Management, Data Analytics, Data warhousing, etc.) and find ways to identify, assess and mitigate risks which help the successful completion of those initiatives. That way, we stop getting looked at as a pure pain in the butt but as a business partner and a team that provides a unique view of the organization to add value.

 

Enough about that though, being a pain is part of the territory. I believe my job description is 'Perpetual Pest'.

[Warrick]

I saw a couple guys reply - Auditor.

 

You guys are a pain in my Word not allowed.

 

I am a Security Analyst for the largest commercial broker on earth. I swear I am working through audits 8 months of the year.

 

That's frustrating. Seems like you have a group which is too heavily focused in one area. That or your area is of such high risk that it comes with the territory. I tend to believe Audit departments are beginning to focus way to heavily in security. Obviously its critical and very high risk. IA needs to have a presence in that area, but, IA shouldn't try to be the security department. Some departments I work with feel like they need to be the security department. We don't, nor should we, have the expertise to play that role. I like to focus my group on value add proposition reviews. So how and where can the IA department inject themselves to provide value to the organization. I try to get our department away from the pure check the box compliance exercises (i.e. SOX, PCI, etc... thing we have to do but shouldn't be the only thing we do). I look for areas of IT like SDLC projects and any other major initiatives (Asset Management, Data Analytics, Data warhousing, etc.) and find ways to identify, assess and mitigate risks which help the successful completion of those initiatives. That way, we stop getting looked at as a pure pain in the butt but as a business partner and a team that provides a unique view of the organization to add value.

 

Enough about that though, being a pain is part of the territory. I believe my job description is 'Perpetual Pest'.

 

Goodness, that is a refreshing little tidbit. I was sure you all were just fed meat through a door as children...lol.

 

It is nice to hear that perspective, as so many just seem to enjoy being a pain, and not actually working WITH us.

 

Yes, am Security Audit/Admin, also run the Compliance logging tool, so absolutely that group that has their hands in everything security related. I understand it is that nature of the beast, just wish more had a thought process that matched yours.

[SilverBullets]

I saw a couple guys reply - Auditor.

 

You guys are a pain in my Word not allowed.

 

I am a Security Analyst for the largest commercial broker on earth. I swear I am working through audits 8 months of the year.

 

That's frustrating. Seems like you have a group which is too heavily focused in one area. That or your area is of such high risk that it comes with the territory. I tend to believe Audit departments are beginning to focus way to heavily in security. Obviously its critical and very high risk. IA needs to have a presence in that area, but, IA shouldn't try to be the security department. Some departments I work with feel like they need to be the security department. We don't, nor should we, have the expertise to play that role. I like to focus my group on value add proposition reviews. So how and where can the IA department inject themselves to provide value to the organization. I try to get our department away from the pure check the box compliance exercises (i.e. SOX, PCI, etc... thing we have to do but shouldn't be the only thing we do). I look for areas of IT like SDLC projects and any other major initiatives (Asset Management, Data Analytics, Data warhousing, etc.) and find ways to identify, assess and mitigate risks which help the successful completion of those initiatives. That way, we stop getting looked at as a pure pain in the butt but as a business partner and a team that provides a unique view of the organization to add value.

 

Enough about that though, being a pain is part of the territory. I believe my job description is 'Perpetual Pest'.

 

Goodness, that is a refreshing little tidbit. I was sure you all were just fed meat through a door as children...lol.

 

It is nice to hear that perspective, as so many just seem to enjoy being a pain, and not actually working WITH us.

 

Yes, am Security Audit/Admin, also run the Compliance logging tool, so absolutely that group that has their hands in everything security related. I understand it is that nature of the beast, just wish more had a thought process that matched yours.

 

As do I haha. It's the way the industry is pivoting, albeit, very slowly.

 

Shameless plug - I am on the market looking for a IT Audit Manager/Sr. Mgr role due to a recent acquisition I'm currently wading through.

[Hit em good]

First off, ex military here.

 

Now I'm a Human Resources VP at a hospital system, but also responsible for a variety of additional areas, such as IT, property leasing, etc...

 

It is pretty much an 8a - 5p job, so I have time for a regular weekly game on the weekends. Very good pay, and good quality of work life. I consider myself blessed.

 

Hit em good

[PutterHo]

Trophy Husband. Get the kids to school with matching clothes, hair brushed, and ensure sliced fruit is in lunches. Make sure they are on time for gymnastics, taekwon do, and swim. Rinse and Repeat.

[highergr0und]

Run operations and in charge of product for a software company. It's pretty awesome, but a lot of hours.

[McGolf]

I have two jobs,

 

1) Plant superintendent at a uranium processing facility (closed now)

 

2) own and operate McGolf Custom Clubs in Waverly, Oh. a driving range, fitting center and repair shop.

 

guess which one I like most.,,,,,,,