i only leave my house for 3 ocasions
1. meeting my girlfriend
2. buying food
3. going out with friends when they come to pick me off
other than that i just sit in home and play vidya games
I took the baseline as a chef, worked at 2 restaurants. shit paid, working ur ass off 230hours a moth. At one of the places they had something called interest hours, which means i don't get paid for about 80hours a moth, working free.
I'm a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army Reserve. (Medical Services, nothing super cool.) I used to do some part time work at a comic book store in college (that was a cool job), interned at a local bank, and am now looking for full-time work while my girlfriend finishes college.
I'm a software developer and make a lot of money (close to 6 figs now and I just turned 30) with very good hours and lots of web surfing time =) If you have the chops I strongly recommend engineering or software as a career choice. Better starting pay than anything outside of like lawyers and doctors, takes half the education time (maybe a third compared to drs) and has far better hours than both those.
Most recently I've been an English teacher in a school in Spain, prior to this I was a restaurant manager, prior to that a bar manager, prior to that a labourer and further back still I worked in a photo processing company, I manned my owned machine and would be responsible for any faults or breaks in it, long shifts were boring but it was quite good fun when the machinery broke as I taught myself how to take them apart and fix them.
Well Dota came out 9 years ago. So if you are 24 or younger. You pretty much could have been playing dota your entire life since you arent legally allowed to work till you are 16 for most jobs
@HotSalza
Lol, 14 is young. But I guess I took up dota at 13 so it's only fair.
Also, it's interesting to see what other players have been doing for a living, for me.
im 20 and work as a web developer for a bitcoin based company, i even get paid in bitcoins (no taxes and illegal)
Used to work in hospitals as a technician. now work for a boring financial company as a technician. how boring. I should go kill someone to spice things up
Hi! I read for a living. I read manuscripts and give reader's reports or TV/film agents, who have people to read publishing things for them, and also write reports, but with an eye towards marketability. 😉
^ That actually sounds fun.
Im still a college student, so only those kind of jobs. I used to go to highschools to represent our school and tell them why they want to come here, fun thing, into car at around 5am, same shit 4-5 different schools then getting home, but mostly it was sitting in a car for hours, but they payed okey ish.
Then half year answering phones at our ISP/TV company, that one hurt my soul and brain... I never thought that many retards exist... I did some random easy and boring jobs in factories, but not many times. Atm looking for something easy but boring, couse that helpdesk phone job killed me.
car painter/electrician in norway while studying but choose to stop with studies and haven't worked in 5 months :-DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
neet 4 lyfe
I'm an electrical engineering student and work in an applied mathematics, programming and statistics lab
Just finished my b in bus & com. Been working in the family business since I was 7 (got to love legal child labour 
) while at work like to do free pour pictures , cause making coffee non stop for 4 hours is boring as fuck!
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timberwolf where do u live? silicon valley?
what if i decide to do software engineering but want to go elsewhere :x
My past and current role are/were
Current -
Senior Network Administrator at British Retail Consortium
Past -
Software Localization Engineer at Xerox
EPoS Cisco Systems Analyst at NSI Retail
Localization Project Manager at Protext
I have a BCs in Computer Science as well as an Agile, Prince2, and CompTIA certification, and am working towards finishing my CCNA
Also coursera.org has been a massive source of small certifications for me and some quick reference for languages (programming) I don't yet know or would like to learn.
Live on a farm deep in the mountains in South Africa, still studying so no 'Real' jobs yet:
What I have done and still do:
Raise pigs, slaughter and cut them up myself
Raise sheep, slaughter and cut them up myself
Building stone houses
Worked at a Bar
Managed a Restaurant
Fix computers and give basic computer lessons to old people(not much pay, but oh so much delicious food to eat :P)
BS IT specializing in Database Management Systems
Age: 28;
-- working for 9 yrs in the Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Big Data industry..
-- specializes in Data Warehouse Performance Tuning, Data Modelling and ETL
-- Certified Enterprise Architect
next on my list: to be Hortonworks Hadoop Certified; but in order to achieve this, I might have to cut my DotA time maybe 2 hrs/day :(
Software Analyst for a company that works in bookmaking (gambling)
It's not exactly advanced but pays the bills and is low stress.
Looking to make the move up to a full on Solutions Architect over the next few years though for the moolah :)
Nope, not silicon valley, I live in Michigan. If I lived in California I'd probably be making 20% more but rents are so freakin high there it'd be a wash. Maybe other countries are different but average starting salaries for engineers/software engineers in the US is like 60-65,000 a year. Average for a senior position with 5+ years experience is around 85-90,000. Depends a little on your area, obviously living in like North Dakota there are no jobs for you, but there are software companies in every major metropolitan area. I have over 10 years at my company and I interned there in college, so while it might seem quite impressive it's very representative of the field. I'm kind of "old" by dota standards too, rest of you guys will get there eventually, when I was 24 I barely made half what I do now.
Havoc, what's a BC? I've got a BS (bachelor's of science degree) but am unfamiliar with what BC is.
Well i worked since I was 12 cuz I am always broke so I have
Sold newspapers
English/chemistry/math tutor (still do it to earn some cash during uni year)
Swim coach
worked at a restaurant
During this summer male nurse :D
BCS BSC either way, Batchelor of Computer Science Hon
The BCS is from these guys http://www.bcs.org/
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You can't have been playing doto all your life. What kinds of jobs you have been doing?
I am a college student now but have been working during summers.
I worked in an office answering phones, easy job but not well paid.
Also as a labourer in construction, hard job but well paid.
How about you?