Dragon's Lair Fans - Arcade Lifestyle
General Chat => All the rest => Topic started by: Dr. Blair on February 09, 2012, 07:05:57 PM
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Strange question: what do you guys do for a living?
Of course, you don't have to answer, but it seems that, in terms of Arcade Lifestyle, I don't have even close to the time or the skills that you all seem to have. I was wondering if maybe your occupations have something to do with that.
I'm a lawyer. Long, long, long hours. It's 3 am and I'm in a taxi heading home from work. Hopefully I'll be able to spend some time over the weekend to work on my DK cab plans, but we'll see.
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I am a IT guy, mostly Microsoft
and i have a very high interest in everything technical, and have learned alot from own experiments ;D
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I commisssion and maintain fire alarms......but Id rather do something else....
I also do some user and colleague training which I really like doing...
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i'm a teacher and when i started this hobby i knew ZIP about electronics and ZAP about woodworks. :P
fortunately, the pay for a teacher in germany is good (at least i'm happy about the money i get) AND i can't complain about the free time i have - i really can't! additionally, i do love my job! :-*
there's only one thing i can complain about: me still living in this apartment without a real gameroom ...
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I work for a drinkwholesales, surrounded by tasty stuff. :D
As Ully, I knew nothing about electronics and cab restoration until I joined this awesome forum and meet our members. :-*
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i'm an IT , mostly .net & sqlserver programming
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i work as a sales and research person for the dutch national television archive, great job!
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I build web sites/applications, and other stuff that runs on internet connected gizmos like iPhones and game consoles. Most of it under non-disclosure agreements because whoever hired me is pretending their company built it and/or is adding a fat percentage to my fee.
I also have hardly any spare time and am thinking of selling off a bunch of projects that will never get to the workbench at this rate :)
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I'm an administrator for an EMI (Elderly and mentally infirm) care home, mainly dealing with older people with Dementia and Alzheimers.
Very demanding work, but also very rewarding.
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Excellent topic! - you wont happen to know Steve Saunders?? ;D ;D ;D
I´m a carpenter, not much to say about that..... i know how to build a cab :)
But the electronic aspect of this hobby gives me grey hair!!!!
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I work for a city as a debt relief worker. Mostly involves trying to help people who are up to their eyeballs in debts. A lot of sad stories but when it works it is quite a satisfying job. Unfortunately I lack any and all skills when it comes to working with my hands so I can't restore anything. And that means I can only try and find cabs that are in mint condition (which are even harder to find then usual and cost a bomb :roll:) And that is why I only have one right now (almost two but that is too sad a story to tell again ;D) But I stay optimistic! You never know what you might run into.
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You must be busy the last couple of years Tup....
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@Dr.Blair....No offense but when I hear lawyer I always have to think of this brilliant Rowan Atkinson scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB-Q_G8tgE0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
and I alwys have to think about their tarriffs...
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So, it seems that we are a pretty diverse group so far. It's also good to hear that I'm not the only one without any tech/wood skills.
As for the Rowan Atkinson bit, very funny. I'd say that about 50% of us lawyers belong in hell. I'd like to think that I'm in the other 50% though. :wink:
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No worries, according to "Toby" Id be there too, being an atheist :):)
I do have electronics schooling and also IT (yes believe it or not but I'm a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer....but that was in my dark years....
Im scared by woodworking and any mechanical stuff though ;);)
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My turn :)
I am doing qualifications for pharmaceutical machines and the stuff around. That can be complete filling lines for syringes or vials (small bottles) incl. cleaning machine, heat tunnel, filler, optical inspections. But also large vacuum cleaners that are used in cleanrooms and must fulfill special specifications. When new machines are ordered or existing machines are changed, I write the documents for testing them, i.E. the correct amount of liquid medicine that is filled into the syringes/vials or the efficiency of the cleaning machine, the heat in the heating tunnel etc.
I'm not very much in electronics (the low voltage stuff....transistors, caps, ICs etc.). I'm better in the higher voltage (230V) and if there's something to fix in the cabs I do that. Or the mechanical thing, metal and wood :)
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I'm an architect, the traditional one, not part of the group that fills up monsterboard with jobs I DONT WANT.
To dampen the strong fluctuation in income (building and construction is doing horribly in the Netherlands) I partly teach.
During another bad year in B&C, I designed a nice looking multi-game cab, which resulted in making a small production run of 33 cabs. So for a short time I was probably Europe's only arcade cab manufacturer ;) doing some sort of serial production. It thought me an awful lot about buying parts, serial assembly, customers and quality control.
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Actually this is a pretty cool thread, most I knew (about) what they did, but f.i. Thorsten, even though we've met a couple of times already, I never knew what you did for a job (I guess we just liked to talk ARCADE too much ;) ;) ;))
You're in a good sector, medicine will only grow the coming years :)
We are so far doing OK. Despite indeed (as Blanka says) construction being terrible at the moment in Holland we do still have a lot of maintenance contracts. Besides that we also have a branch that does Hi-Fog (high pressure water-mist) systems. That's a kind of sprinkler, but the nozzles release VERY tiny drops of water and under high pressure (120 bar or so). The result is that there is much less rest damage (almost none) after the system has been operated, it leaves almost no water on the floors and stuff within the building. Even so much better that it is widely used in data centers and around the 020 these data centers keep popping up like mushrooms at the moment !!
I know nothing about "water pipes, pumps and valves" etc. but we also try to sell our alarm systems needed to monitor those systems which is pretty successful.
Our company actually recently hired two new guys....can't be a bad sign.
Hey Blanka, 33 machines is an impressive run for a small market ! Well done, but you had good advertising too ;) ;)
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Until August I was working for a group of record labels and band booking agencies in Belgium as, mostly, graphic designer but also sometimes booking agent and tour manager.
I really enjoyed the backstage life a lot and met some awesome people (some terrible too of course).
Maybe you've heard that the music industry is not doing that well ::) so after the company offered to reduce my salary (by half!) I decided to quit and start my own thing.
I'm now a freelance graphic designer (still feels weird to say that) working mostly for... the same clients! ;)
I have never even had to set up a webpage or print new cards because the clients I have now knew my work already.
The other good thing is that I now work from home so bye-bye traffic jams.
As I totally stopped tourmanaging I kinda miss a bit the wild life on the road but now get to spend more time my 2 years old son... can't beat that, I really enjoy being a dad.
It's a new life, so far so good...
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The other good thing is that I now work from home so bye-bye traffic jams.
Glad you manage to compensate that now and then with some insane road-trips ;) ;) ;)
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You must be busy the last couple of years Tup....
Like you wouldn't believe. And it is only getting worse. We're expecting a rise of about 20% more applications this coming year :shock:
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Cool topic, it's nice to know a bit more about each other's background, without it getting too uncomfortable.
I am a financial controller, at a company which makes products for the house construction world, like gas flue systems, air- and watertightness products, ventilation products, etc. It's fun because I get to work with financial data. On the other hand, not useful for this hobby, where more technical and electrical skills would be useful. I lack them pretty much.
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i play simcity for real :P
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I've been a coin-op mechanic since 1988 and worked in a big arcade 8 years prior to that.Best job in the world in 1981.
I became a mechanic because the pinballs and videogames started to dissapear in the arcade more and more in favour of gambling.
As a mechanic i could choose my servicecalls more or less and i mostly got the pinball related since i was good at that.
Nowadays pinball is gone and videogames non existant, so i repair roulette tables and gaming machines instead.Pinball is still very big in my sparetime luckily.
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Im a Sound Engineer and Music arranger for a small Publisher/Studio. It (barely) pays the bills!
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Like i said in my resto thread, i work in a glass coater company, we work with large areas of glass and coat this under vacuum to make glass with sun protection and thermal protection. I´m the operator to drive that plant, day and night.
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Hey,
I'm a computer science student, currently writing my Master's Thesis and working at the same time in a company that builds networking devices, like firewalls, proxies, etc.
This gives me a lot of knowledge about software but the craftman's work and is totally not mine. In electronics, i have some dangerous half knowledge, so I'm heavily depending on help there :)
But as a student, I am limited in space and money, so my "collection" is unfortunately very small at the moment being 2 Cabs. But nonetheless, they make a lot of fun!
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I`m a System Engineer for a space system company. In charge of assembly, integration and validation. Means I know how to use Excel ;)
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Wow, Thanks alot guys.... lol :lol:
Now I know how Penny feels when she is with the guys on Big Bang Theory! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I'm an "A/V Guy" which basically means I maintain the Theatre and projection equipment for a museum in Houston, Tx. and Horrrayyyy for me, School Group season is coming up, and I'm in charge of keeping them from destroying the place! ::)
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Hahahaha, good luck with that Sonic!
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Difficult to explain
Will try
Working for a company that builds non-destructive testing (NDT), software, electronics and mechanics.For steel plants
equipment to inspect rollers for sheet metal
and I am in the production part, putting everything together.
Doing this for one year now
And the fun thing got this job because I was messing around whit arcade games so nobody can say this hobby is a waste of time. ;)
Before this 10 years working in a groceries’ store :-X
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I work at Holland's largest road construction company (KWS Infra), as an estimator (dutch: calculator) for the concrete road construction division. In short: I sit at my computer 8 hours a day and make a lot of offers and estimates, variying from 2000 to 20 million euros.
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An interesting mix of people, this. :)
I work as a graphic designer/pre-print consultant at a publishing company. I do book covers, marketing material, webgraphics and set up books before we send them off to the printers.
Oh, and I spent eight years and gazillions at university studying the history of philosophy just to realize that I wanted to do something completely different. :'(
I'm self taught at what I do now, and I had a really lucky break getting a job.
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I work for a company that preps, scans and destroys documents, or data devices.
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it's kinda of a fun thread. :)
i'm unemployed right now, but used to be an antique restorer in Bruxelles.
now i following graphism courses, so i work a lot on artworks atm.
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And you can always decide to NOT pay the bills:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiivSAh18-U&feature=player_detailpage#t=62s
;D
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I am a web- and graphic designer for over 12 years now. So I work a lot with Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign and create code in HTML5 and CSS3.
Nice creative job. But except for creating artwork and lots of time Googling, it's not of much use in this hobby.
Learned the skills needed for this hobby by myself (and from guys like you).
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I am working in the software industrie as consultant for 3D CAD software and PDM Solutions.
I am a studied engineer for building machineries.
I have nothing to do with wood, and only a few things with electronics (but i can sell you the software to build PCBs)
::)
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And you can always decide to NOT pay the bills:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiivSAh18-U&feature=player_detailpage#t=62s
;D
After seeing that trailer, I had to see that movie :P Done this morning 8)
Wow, a perfect mix between 'Dikkenek' & 'La merditude des choses' ! :-* I'm loving it !!!
Thanks for the discover! :)
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The sequel, New Kids Nitro, will be out on dvd soon aswell. Glad you like it, it's an aquired taste ;-)
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As a fan and beeing from "brabant" ;D , i need to add this ofcourse :
http://newkids-ontheblock.nl/
(season 3 is the best though..)
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Wow, a perfect mix between 'Dikkenek' & 'La merditude des choses' ! :-* I'm loving it !!!
Thanks for the discover! :)
How did you watch it?
Dutch original,
French subtitles or German dubbed?
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How did you watch it?
Dutch original,
French subtitles or German dubbed?
Dutch original with French subtitles.
I always try to watch movies in their original language.
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Hi, just wanted to say that it is interesting to see the wide variety of fields that people work in that have 1 thing in common.
I myself work as an equipment tech in a cleanroom for the National Institute for Nanotechnology in Canada where we are doing research on improving solar cells, hydrogen fuel cells, super batteries, printable electronics, etc - hey, it's a job. ;)
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I myself work as an equipment tech in a cleanroom for the National Institute for Nanotechnology in Canada where we are doing research on improving solar cells, hydrogen fuel cells, super batteries, printable electronics, etc - hey, it's a job. ;)
That sounds cool!!! :spaceace:
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My main job is a as a civil servant in the UK - border control, so don't let me ever catch you trying to get a cab into England without me knowing about it!
I also have my own business making apps for smartphones, and am licensed by Atari and Nintendo so i do my best to keep the retro-love alive ;D
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I am a Product / Industrial Designer... started my own business 10 months ago with a good friend. Been demanding... but really exciting... never looked back.
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I steal candy from small children and sell it on eBay.
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My main job is a as a civil servant in the UK - border control, so don't let me ever catch you trying to get a cab into England without me knowing about it!
Haha, we fooled you on the way to South Coast Slam ! By the way, you better look out for me getting a cab OUT of the UK !!! ;D ;D ;D