I work in IT (information technology), too. I have been working as a testing/quality assurance analyst for the last 9 years, but that's probably going to come to an end. Our project managers don't like it when you find a lot of bugs in their product. They have to explain to the CEO why. So the head of the development group, of which our team is a member, broke us up at the end of 2013, and he's finishing that work as of the end of this year. I'm looking more seriously now to find a QA position with another organization.
I was a banker before that, for a small community bank in SE PA. I trained the new branch personnel. But when my boss left, things went sour, and I followed a friend to an IT company and learned things from the ground up.
Before that, the first job I held out of school was as a bill collector, calling debtors and dunning them to pay their credit card bills. That was interesting, with colorful characters both on the other end of the phone and among my fellow workers, but for a dopey kid from the 'burbs, it got to be too distasteful and after a year, I had saved enough to enroll in grad school. But then I realized that I was in school just to be in school, and decided it was time to get out and get a job, and landed in the bank.
But as Doctor Evil might say, the details of my job "are inconsequential." The job has always been something I did, to pay the bills and to be able to pursue my hobbies. I never knew what I wanted to do when I grew up, and I still don't.
Prost!
Brad
