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Ask HN: What do you do for a living?

11 points by aaronetz ↗ HN
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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l33tbro
Subaquatic Ceramic Technician
pratik661
Nice. How did you get there?
l33tbro
Love to tell you, pal ... but us dishwashers are skeptical of outsiders.
pjungwir
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!
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a3n
Software QA. <voice persona='Ed Grimley'>As manual as manual could be, I must say.</voice>
colanderman
software engineer
jagawhowho
Possible equivalent titles: Developer, programmer, architect, engineer, hacker
USNetizen
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.
jagawhowho
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.

ScottWhigham
Opinion... I hate that the only person who will see the number of results is the OP.
krapp
Student, and occasionally, freelance graphic and web designer.
majurg
IT client support...
USNetizen
Now a startup CEO but my background is in project/program management and software engineering
laughfactory
Credit Risk Specialist by day / web developer and writer in the early a.m.
pallavkaushish
Marketing Junkie, Operations Handler and Growth Hacker by day, partial coder and blogger by night.
draizada
Entrepreneur, Technology officer and a full time geek.
olive_
developper and student
daneel
Currently: Front End Developer. Hopefully I'll be transitioning into e-commerce business sole proprietor soon.
dbecker
Data scientist (statistician)
dorfuss
customer relations and PR specialist at an insurance company and software engineering freshman