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 From:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)   17 Apr 2020 19:36 
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I am on disability benefits due to being mentalheaded.

 
 
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS    17 Apr 2020 19:37 
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      5 of 183 
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What were you doing before the sabbatical?

I'm guessing not the best time to freelance, but what types of contracts are you potentially looking for?
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS    17 Apr 2020 19:38 
 To:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)      6 of 183 
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Initially read that as metalheaded. I hope you're okay Drew. I have often wondered whether you are and checked you still had an online presence somewhere.
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 From:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)   17 Apr 2020 19:41 
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I'm fine! Not depressive or anything. Just incapable of leaving the house or really doing anything economically useful.

I'm on mastodon :|

 
 
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   17 Apr 2020 20:09 
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I'm in my 10th (!) year at a small marcom company that formerly specialized in heavy industry/engineering clients, now with a more varied portfolio, but our main client that has supplied us with 70-80% of our billings is a huge fossil fuels support company (erk). I do some web design and development, server admin, odd jobs, and the go-to IT support person in the office.
“a man gets struck by lightning and goes “zzzt”, Jason gets shot and dies and the submarine blows up.”
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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)   17 Apr 2020 22:10 
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I retired nearly 4 years ago after 30 years working first for The Inland Revenue as was, now HMRC, as a COBOL developer, then EDS (same but also setting up a change management team), then Fujitsu as an ISPF, TSO, MVS specialist with some DB2 support, then Capgemini as a DB2 DBA finally managing a DB2/Oracle/SQL Server/IDMS team which meant doing really interesting stuff for a while and then totally boring shit after that. I do stuff now, but not for money. Got a pension.
never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead
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 From:  graphitone   17 Apr 2020 22:22 
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I'm a lead engineer in a service IT department working for a large (~1500 employees) charity, been there nearly two years now and enjoying it. It's a nice place to work, anyone can bring ideas to the fore and the IT department is around 80 people strong, so always others to bounce those ideas off. The past 4 weeks have been pretty hellish though. We been tasked with renting 800+ laptops and getting them configured for end users to be able to work from home. That in itself has been ok, but we've been supporting those end users through setting up VPN connections and have never been busier. Our job would be made a lot easier if people could read manuals.

When I'm not doing the above, the work is a bit of everything, 2nd and 3rd line support, projects, mentoring and coaching.

I would drop it all tomorrow though if drawing portraits paid the mortgage.  :J

 


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Drawings n' that

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 From:  graphitone   17 Apr 2020 22:23 
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 (hug)


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Drawings n' that

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 From:  Manthorp   17 Apr 2020 23:40 
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I work in the Cultural Institute of University of Leeds, mostly matching up artists with academics and giving them space and resources to play out together. I also still make my own art sometimes with Greyhair (Shanaz Gulzar).
"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951
 
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   17 Apr 2020 23:41 
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Have you had a chance to play with the new toy yet?
“a man gets struck by lightning and goes “zzzt”, Jason gets shot and dies and the submarine blows up.”
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 From:  craig (CHARTLEY)   18 Apr 2020 05:07 
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My word, we’ve all returned at the same time?

I’m currently a detective in a rather violent and busy part of the world. It’s varied, interesting and generally agreeable.

No such thing as working from home for us, I’m currently sat in work monitoring the carnage going all around our area to see if there’s any trade for CID.
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 From:  Dave!!   18 Apr 2020 11:51 
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I work for an international IT sales and services company and am currently a Service Manager. Currently working on two large accounts managing all of the services we deliver to these two customers across UK, Ireland, Belgium and Netherlands. Keeps me busy, although the regular travelling I used to do is somewhat on hold at the moment.

Been at this firm for 6 1/2 years now, worked my way up from being a lead IT engineer, senior analyst, team leader and now service manager.
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   18 Apr 2020 12:21 
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I had been wasting time at a SaaS company, where I was filling the roles of senior developer & team lead, but without the recognition, respect or pay.


I'd most like to do sponsored open source work - fixing bugs, adding features, producing small/focused libraries/tools, etc - but I'm potentially open to any software contracts that are either short-term or sufficiently rewarding/interesting.

 
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS    18 Apr 2020 13:02 
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Unsurprisingly a lot of IT related jobs.

I probably deliberately underplayed my role, for some reason I find it amusing to say I buy cardboard boxes for a living.

Anyway, the main part of my job is to manage the packaging buying for a food manufacturer, we specialise in packing olives and antipasti products going to most of the major retailers in the UK, and a bit of export. Someone else covers the ingredients, but I do dabble a bit on that side. I'm also quite involved in a new project that launched in Jan where we are producing a ready to eat chicken mimick vegan protein (Squeaky Bean in Sainsbury's, go buy some. It is genuinely very good).
Another aspect is that I'm our on site "systems coordinator" and part of our IT Steering Group for the wider group of businesses. We've got two primary systems for running a lot of things, a financial system and an MRP for, you guessed it, Material Requirement Planning. Both have their quirks and challenges and I'm the go to person at my site, I work a lot on the MRP system and it was pretty much setup by someone who doesn't do my day to day so never really cared about how badly it functioned. I've gone in with a mindset of automating out as many manual tasks as possible to vastly improve data accuracy. More accurate data usually results in a couple of things, less shortages, less waste.
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 From:  Manthorp   19 Apr 2020 00:07 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      18 of 183 
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I've been experimenting with overlaying successive photos with me in different parts of the room (works fine), but of course we're in lock down, and there's no way I can carry out my masterplan of getting the town council to agree for me to site it on the back of the town hall, overlooking the square to get my Rush Hour For Urban animals shots.

I'll let you know when we go ahead.
"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951
 
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   19 Apr 2020 12:40 
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Glad to hear it works! Interesting concept, looking forward to seeing its eventual realization.
“a man gets struck by lightning and goes “zzzt”, Jason gets shot and dies and the submarine blows up.”
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 From:  milko   19 Apr 2020 17:13 
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I listen to customers telling me they want their logo to bounce around next to a football match, then I tell my team of motion graphics artists to make the logo bounce around, then I send the result to the football match and tell our field ops guys when to play the logo bouncing around. 

Not really sure how this fills as much time as it does, but it do. 

Since there is currently no football or rugby or cricket I am now mainly doing parenting and wondering if we’ll survive long enough to be there when the sport happens again. Which I think we will, just about. We also do some cool stuff with VR and AR but that’s not been much to do with me yet and that also is all on hold since it tended to be in the kinds of places that are now closed. 
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 From:  Matt   19 Apr 2020 18:32 
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I am working in the technology department of a finance company. Think lots of transparency and audits by the likes of the SEC, ESMA and FCA in The UK.

The UK used to come under the jurisdiction of ESMA, but then Brexit happened.
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 From:  koswix   19 Apr 2020 20:50 
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I draw pipe fittings to help multinational megacorps rape the earth and poison the air.

Almost 1 year in, it's as boring as it sounds, but hopefully will lead to something better.

Official title is 'mechanical design engineer', but that's rather overstated for what I actually do. We're essentially one level up from blacksmiths. 

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 From:  patch   19 Apr 2020 21:23 
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I work as a network engineer for a.. Christ, what do we do these days? We used to have our own ISP, but then the other ISP that owns us got arsey about it so our ISP team split off into their own company and effectively became the opposition. We do a lot of cloud hosting and integration with public clouds. I spend a lot of time buried in comms racks wondering where that cable is going and why is it there and how is this network even functioning without it catching fire? I look at some of the hosted firewalls that we run and occasionally make small changes very carefully. I try to persuade my customers to spend more money than they want to spend because their switches are 11 years old and we're all going to have some really bad days when the switch fails.

We do anything for the cash, basically.
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