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Ask YC: What's your day job?
I'm interested in what day jobs hackers on here have? I'd like to see what the mix of people working IT related jobs with side projects vs non IT related jobs with side projects. IT being the usual admin, developer and designer type positions.
And its always interesting in general to see what other people do for a living.
- cosmo7 18y agoI have a full time gig as web developer, plus a blog that gets around 30-40k uniques per day. I'm also working on a charity-focused bodycare line and I have a screenplay under development. My current web project launches in September.
- chris123 18y agono day job here... "all in."
- davidw 18y agoConsulting and contracting, with a variety of technologies. My profile has links to my pages, which have this information in more detail. Does yours?
- CaptainMorgan 18y agoI'm a networking systems engineer but my heart is in software development. I've developed small programs to assist my day to day tasks, take part in open source projects, have written a blog or two to discuss technology as I see it and my book reading list is endless. In a year or two I see myself transitioning into the software side of the company after acquiring my degree and having some of those side projects to showcase what I can do. I guess I could say that I am currently and primarily a systems hacker by day-job, and software hacker by hobby with the goal of making it a profession. Asking a question is great on HN, but you should preface it with your answer to your own question... not a hard and fast rule obviously, but for questions like this it would certainly be nice to hear about what you do too. :)
- greyman 18y agoSoftware developer in a large company.
- stcredzero 18y agoSoftware Developer in a once small startup company which has been growing by buying other startups. Now we are a becoming mid-sized enterprise with all the disadvantages of a small company combined with all the disadvantages of a large one.
- wheels 18y agoThere was a poll recently on this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=223846 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=223846 I'm, well, we run a startup. :-)
- kaens 18y agoFreelance coding, currently python web stuff.
- ra 18y agoI'm a web R&D manager for a bank.
- SwellJoe 18y agoStartup. Before this one, I had another one for seven years (at some point it stopped being a startup and became a very modestly successful lifestyle business, which wasn't really what I was aiming for, so I shut it down). And when I get bored with this one, I'll start another. I've frequently done contract work, on the side, to make ends meet. Even some quite long projects with great small companies--including another startup. But I've always known I would own my own business...since I was a kid. And I've always planned and acted accordingly.
- raghus 18y agovery... and modestly...? :-)
- SwellJoe 18y agovery... and modestly...? s/modestly/minimally/, I guess. I had a hard time expressing it concisely. It kept me in food and houses and bought me a 350Z, but I never took vacations, and developed a pathological aversion to the sound of a ringing phone.
- RobGR 18y agoJust out of curiosity, why did you shut the "very modestly successful lifestyle business" down instead of selling it ? Obviously such businesses are hard to sell to the usual business purchasers (VCs or those business guys who buy franchises or whatever), but you can often find an relative or in-law or local stay-at-home mom who is willing to run it. You might have to be "on call" to consult and help them through problems. Was the business really so specialized that only you could do it ? Myself, I currently work as a freelance programmer, and do some sys admin work to make ends meet while I try to get my other ideas under way. However, I am going to have to change something, as it is taking up more and more time and making less and less money. If I could get a job as a programmer where they were willing to let me work 2 or 3 days a week for proportionate pay, I think I would take it at this point.
- SwellJoe 18y ago
- deleted 18y ago[deleted]
- walesmd 18y agoClient Support Administrator for the United States Air Force
- prakash 18y agoI was a Suit, used to do technical sales :-). Now working on my startup.
- vp 18y agosoftware engineer
- froo 18y agoWeb Development Consultant but working on my first startup.
- niels 18y agoFreelancer, python web stuff, with my own project on the side.
- paraschopra 18y agoMarket Research Analyst by the day and Hacker by the night and weekends ;) Does having a completely different kind of job help your hacking enthusiasm? I am still figuring that out.
- jhollingworth 18y agodeveloper @ http://huddle.net http://huddle.net
- qeek 18y agoWeb designer & front-end developer at a startup.
- gibsonf1 18y agoBuilding Architect
- jaydub 18y agoundergrad
- timae 18y agoI do financial due diligence for M&A. Mostly on the buy-side. (with a webapp side project)
- furiouslol 18y agothat's very cool. an investment banker hacking a webapp
- nostrademons 18y agoDelicious. Or Amazon, if you go back further.
- dats 18y agoBitTorrent. Ashwin worked for Goldman Sachs.
- furiouslol 18y agoashwin didn't develop bittorent. he's the hired "marketing guy"
- byrneseyeview 18y agoIs there any detailed information on what Bezos did for Shaw? I had always assumed he was a developer or similar there, too.
- ejs 18y agopreviously - electrical design engineer current - full time phd student
- edw519 18y agoprogrammer (I remember a time when almost everyone here would have called themsevlves that. But now, we have 47 different words for "programmer".)
- DanielBMarkham 18y agoI like "Code Monkey"
- kirse 18y agoI'm actually a Rockstar™ Developer.
- ph0rque 18y agoRocket Surgeon
- shabda 18y agowww.uswaretech.com, my full time job
- paulgb 18y agoHeh, I read the URL as "you swear tech". Just a heads up ;).
- KB 18y agoDeveloper for a small financial software startup in Boston. BTW... We are hiring and are having a real hard time finding good developers. Shoot me your resume if interested.
- vineet7kumar 18y agoSoftware Engineer
- DanielBMarkham 18y agoManagement Consultant. Specifically an Agile Coach. I teach organizations and their teams who have gotten lost in paperwork and procedures how to get in touch with that little start-up inside all of us -- without taking down production by being a cowboy. But it's Sunday and I'm busy coding on my startup. Doesn't that count as a day job?
- whather 18y agobefore: game developer (pirates of the burning sea) now: meetcast.com
- simplegeek 18y agoSoftware Craftsmen :)
- STHayden 18y agoweb / user interface designer
- tonyvt2005 18y agoRails developer for a DoD contractor plus side projects
- dotBen 18y agoWhy does the words "Rails" and "DoD" freak me out all of a sudden?
- kcy 18y agofinishing med school
- dotBen 18y agoPlatform and developer network consultant to large companies and other start-ups, but I often end up giving advice on a wide variety of topics - development methodologies tru to blogging PR. I'm probably a prime example of PG's "go all in" strategy rather than doing my project on "the side" as I'm essentially doing the same work for other people so that they can get ahead of me. :(
- kylec 18y agoundergrad/Tim Hortons baker - but I don't plan on doing that forever
- triebjlr 18y agoSoftware Development (mostly web + ivr and telephony stuff)
- dustineichler 18y agoSoftware Engineer at a large company.
- pavelludiq 18y agohighschool nerd
- lucasvo 18y agoI have just graduated high school last week! Transforming from student to full time hacker!
- pavelludiq 18y agoI still have 1 year of tormenting boredom
- jharrison 18y agoWeb/Software development business owner for the last 6 years. Previously all Microsoft dev. Currently a company of one (me) doing RoR. Trying to get past analyzing my startup ideas to just doing them.
- andr 18y agoI press a little button every once in a while. If I don't the Earth's spin will slow down and everyone will die.
- qwph 18y agoI'm an audio programmer in the games industry. It's never been as glamourous as it sounds...
- klocksib 18y agoI test videogames.
- auston 18y agoI'm a front-end/back-end web developer/pr/web marketer at a startup.
- humanlever 18y agoUndergrad. and part-time Project Coordinator at a Fortune 5. I work on blogs, wikis, forums, etc.
- watmough 18y agoWorking out my exit-transition as a programmer/manager at a 300 person consulting shop. I have pretty heavy experience of Oracle and SQL Server based back-ends, batch processing etc., which long-term will make money, but it's not the way the world is going. Planning to work iPhone software and web-apps. Including perhaps a boutique jobs boards, with the slogan "I personally apply for every job posted!", much like the people who start dating sites to "attract a mate".
- s3graham 18y agoprogrammer (EA)
- dmpayton 18y agoSoftware Engineer at an early-stage startup in the Bay area. I was hired to do Python, but they want me to eventually learn C (which I am really looking forward to).
- adbachman 18y agoSoftware developer for large (5 - 7 billion USD) non-tech manufacturing company. Currently investigating the local startup / small company scene for an upgrade, though.
- cellis 18y agoStartupper and drawer of unemployment. Corporate parents shut the startup they bought down, consolidating their location, resulting in a lil' severance + 6-month paid vacation windfall for me.
- maximumwage 18y agosoftware test technician
- fallentimes 18y agonon-technical at ticketstumbler
- Russelldb 18y agoContract java monkey. Currently doing VoD. Would rather be working on erlang/python/openlaszlo web fun for my kids. Educational software is uniformly poor in this country.
- msg 18y agosoftware developer for defense contractor I'm not an entrepreneur at this stage of the game, I'm just here for the news.
- brentr 18y agoI previously worked as a trader for KeyBanc Capital Markets and a broker for Banc of America Investment Services. I have now reentered academia.
- deleted 18y ago[deleted]
- imawesty 18y agoDeveloper @ www.2threads.com
- graemeklass 18y agoIT/Programmer Contractor - 2-3 days. My startup - the rest of my waking hours.
- gills 18y agoDev at a large company for the next week, then I'm off to see the wizard. It's going to be a hard transition, trading very cool projects for independence.
- johnm 18y agoMeat popsicle
- icey 18y agoI just stopped working on my latest startup in the past two years (unfortunately for me, Microsoft announced they were going to do something very similar and it was enough to scare off my few investors). I ended up signing on full time with my favorite consulting client as a practicing software architect for them. I get to solve problems with big data and drive the direction for all of their IT ops. It's fun, and I figure it'll do until the next big idea hits me.
- posborne 18y agoUndergraduate student and associate software engineer at an embedded systems startup (that just got bought recently). I also do some side work with some peers at my school.
- akshay_agrawal 18y agohi i am akki
- justin 18y agojustin.tv
- benfremer 18y agoManager / Owner of a small but growing design, development & marketing company..
- deleted 18y ago[deleted]
- timcederman 18y agoNo other product managers?
- davidkellis 18y agoCS Grad. Student/Part time PL/SQL guy - With side-project.