How old are you and what do you do?

[theYANK]

No, I'm not selling you anything, I just wanted to get an idea. I get a more 'mature' feeling from you guys than I get over at Sharky, of course I could be completely off.
I'm 26, I just moved to NZ from the US(my wife is from here), and I'm looking for a job right now.

[I.R]

Well I'm younger than j00 ;) but still old..... and I don't do a goddamn thing :mad:..... damn them with their fancy degrees and diplomas...... :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:..... if I wasn't so lazy I'd....... um...... er....... where the hell are my damn pills.... stupid kids always hiding my pills:mad: :mad:...... grumble grumble mutter mutter

[shag]

I'm a 28 yr old wierd looking smelly looser with no life and a reall need to be spanked.

I think that prety much sums it up :)

[Geek4Life]

18 and doing a CertIT at the CCC (http://www.ccc.school.nz/).

[Deviant]

Hey welcome to our forum. Please leave now or you are likely to lose you sanity within the next two weeks.

This forum will suck up all your spare time, and will only end up in Divorce.

You wil find youself irresitibly drawn to buying computer components from Neo Computers, and spending all your money there.

On a side note, I'm 32, married 4.5 years, 2 kids, and work in the Royal New Zealand Hot Air Baloon Club, (formerlly Royal New Zealand Air Force). Mostly electronics trained and trying to get a Bachelor of Engineering.

[theYANK]

Originally posted by Deviant
Hey welcome to our forum. Please leave now or you are likely to lose you sanity within the next two weeks.

This forum will suck up all your spare time, and will only end up in Divorce.

You wil find youself irresitibly drawn to buying computer components from Neo Computers, and spending all your money there.

On a side note, I'm 32, married 4.5 years, 2 kids, and work in the Royal New Zealand Hot Air Baloon Club, (formerlly Royal New Zealand Air Force). Mostly electronics trained and trying to get a Bachelor of Engineering.
ROFLMFAO:D I just got out of the US Air Force!

[Deviant]

Originally posted by theYANK

ROFLMFAO:D I just got out of the US Air Force!

Supremly jelous, more aircraft, better pay, better retirement fund, more medals, how the hell do they walk straight with all those things hanging off their breast pocket?

How do I get a job there?

[_N_]

this sounds like a dating show,

so, bachelor 1, what do you do at nights? well, hmm, .... I like to take long walks on the beach etc..

anyway, i just turned 18,
doing first year BE at AUT,
got my car this year too, drive to uni and back and give people rides on my restriceted, I live over at end of the North Western Mway.

Basically, my life consists of this:
winter, study for UNI,
summer, go down to the beach and surf and board etc, and of course work on my computer,

PPL say that I have no life, which is kindda true, but if my life is playing with computers, than I do a have a life, but society sees me as a spotty geek who loves his computer more than any other human being on the planet.

:)

[Sydog]

As you will see alot of the users here are students. (ie don't have much money, can't upgrade, overclock).

I am a 16yr old from CHCH and I goto Shirley Boys High School.
I also work at Xerox every working day from 3-5.

Oh and btw welcome to the forums

[theYANK]

Originally posted by Deviant


Supremly jelous, more aircraft, better pay, better retirement fund, more medals, how the hell do they walk straight with all those things hanging off their breast pocket?

How do I get a job there?
You have to be REALLY arrogant, dumber than a box of rocks, be willing to retire with a spot of skin cancer bigger than a starfish from all the JP8 and hydraulic fluid you spill on yourself, and if you don't get in serious trouble in the first 4 years, you get a 'good conduct' medal. Seriously. And, the pay does suck.

[mird-OC]

my name is mird-OC, i'm 23 years old, and i'm an alcoholic.

[KingJackal]

Seriously. And, the pay does suck.
I don't think you understand - you get US DOLLARS!! ;)

This forum will suck up all your spare time

TESTIFY, BROTHA!! Lol - I wound up with over 4000 posts on the old OCNZ forums. :o Of course, that's as much due to my being a complete phr33k as it is to the OCNZ forums themselves, but nonetheless, they DO 0wnz j00.

We have a very high moderator/users ratio, so you'll be hard pressed to find a flame in here. Which changes everything - we actually manage to <RANT> on in religion/Linux/Mac threads for pages and pages and pages and nobody breaks anyone elses face :D.

Well, not a real face.... my face seems to be the most commonly broken/p[H]0t0ch0p3d image on the forums ATM :rolleyes: :p

....err, yeah - what was this thread about again?

/m3

I've just turned 20, and am in my 3rd full-time year at the University of Canterbury, studying towards a BSc. ( Majoring in Computer Science, but also studying Maths, Chemistry and Physics )

I also run around like a headless chicken. Err - no, I mean, do other stuff. Like Make weird clans ( [OCNZ] :D ;) ), run LANs ( L3 (http://www.L3.net.nz/) ), write the odd article ( got linked on [H]ard|OCP once, w00t! :cool: ), overclock the odd PC, and sneak in fast and buy ALL the good deals in the buy-sell section :D.

Oh yeah - and I write lots and lots of ridiculously long posts.... ph33er.... :eek:

[Agent 86]

My name is Dorris, I'm a 32 year old house wife from Torbay and I'm a first time caller.

[[H]arls]

Im 21 from Napier, 22 next month - wooooo. I feel old and crusty. :D
I pretend to know what im talking about as a technician at a local computer shop, and in my spare time I cruise the hardware sites, play some games, spend time with the Mrs and plot world domination.

[theYANK]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! :D
I gotta say the people (or should I say toddlers) over at sharky would NEVER enjoy such humor, they're too busy flaming each other over whether or not Joe Schmoe should buy an AMD or Intel proc :rolleyes:

[CmdrChris]

Im a 26 year old lawn bowler named Ken.

I drink lots, I MEAN LOTS.

[Gh0s7 L3mUr]

I'm 24 (25 in Nov. -*damn it where is the old man emoticon?*) and for a living at the moment I chop the head off of fish and rip out there guts :D More commonly known as a filleter (unless you see the way I do it). I have two baby boys (Dante 14mths and Sebastian 2mths), and yes Dante already has a keyboard to bash on.

"what?.... No honey I've told you a million times I'm not addicted I could stop buying hardware any time see... I didn't buy anything then did I"

Partner turns back...

"Dante, come here boy. Now listen to papa. All you have to do is press the enter key."


Your purchase has been confirmed.. Have a nice Day :)

And welcome to the forums, we aim to corrupt :D

[Geek4Life]

Originally posted by Gh0s7 L3mUr
I'm 24 (25 in Nov. -*damn it where is the old man emoticon?*) and for a living at the moment I chop the head off of fish and rip out there guts :D More commonly known as a filleter (unless you see the way I do it). I have two baby boys (Dante 14mths and Sebastian 2mths), and yes Dante already has a keyboard to bash on.

"what?.... No honey I've told you a million times I'm not addicted I could stop buying hardware any time see... I didn't buy anything then did I"

Partner turns back...

"Dante, come here boy. Now listen to papa. All you have to do is press the enter key."


Your purchase has been confirmed.. Have a nice Day :)

And welcome to the forums, we aim to corrupt :D
Hmmm, must remember that for if I'm ever married and havekids and the like.

[p01s0n_p1e]

lol
im 15, short, arrogant and annoying. I tend to whine a large amount about absolutely nothing at all.
oh wait, this isnt a "what are your problems" thread is it.....

[Volodkovich]

muahaha, im 15 aswell. Me, NNA2M and p01s0n go to the same college. I pretty much go around saying i'll get x and y hardware but never do because i aint got no money. Appart from that i do skool work, and sleep...yup thats pretty much my life...

[AgentofEvil]

Originally posted by p01s0n_p1e
lol
im 15, short, arrogant and annoying. I tend to whine a large amount about absolutely nothing at all.
oh wait, this isnt a "what are your problems" thread is it.....
I think you could be my evil twin, except for the short part, I'm like 6'2". Basically I'm an arrogant slacker, still at high school. I have no idea whatsoever what I want to do with my life.

[Volodkovich]

ohh, and also i plan to be a mechanical engineer, specialising in fluid dynameics and composties when i grow up :)

[Wibber]

I'm a 21 year old professional student.. cept I maybe have to give it up and actully get a job soon.. partner grumpy @ me for being lazy and not working :P

[swiftynz]

I'm an 18 year old bum student at the University of Canterbury. I'm currently in my first year doing a BCom but that could change...

Originally i was from Hawkes Bay but EIT (the local polytech) really SU><0RZ so i came down here :D. Staying in the Halls of Residence as does the (in)famous (:p) Binky the Stunt Cat.

hey this thread reminds me of the "lets all get to know each other" thread in the old forums!! i suppose it had to be done... :)

[Artifice]

im 30, i make bread crumbs. i get paid to tell the other blokes where to go. other than that this place has stolen my life...

[TheCrow]

Im 21, crew trainer at McD's Hastings, but in training to be manager.

[Artifice]

no i dont want fries with that.

[DiSCLAiMER]

I've just turned 20 and work as a programmer, um er code slave for warehouse optimization (http://www.warehouseoptimization.com/), and like others on the forum seem to suffer from strange sleep patterns, where its not uncommon to see posts at 3 or 4am in the morning.

Don't claim to know anything about hardware, but like to post long ranting posts (filled with gramatical errors) wheneva I can.

[Hans]

22 this year, uni student + website reviewer.

[ktulu]

31 (i think... memories starting to fail on me) and I'm a production supervisor for NZMP (part of Fontera) where I make milkpowder (well "I" dont make it... I tell others how to make it, which is rather ironic, cause I have no idea what I'm doing).
In my spare time (what little there is), I run www.coolcases.co.nz from home.

[Binky Stunt Cat]

Originally posted by swiftynz
Staying in the Halls of Residence as does the (in)famous (:p) Binky the Stunt Cat.
Different ones tho.....
I'm 20, and have got red hair (i'm easy to spot :P). Repeating my 2nd year in a B.Sc in BioChem (but doing more Zool now), staying at a different hall from Swifty, and am an R(esidential).A(ssistant). (which means i get the master keys, no fees, and have to put up with ~85 first years who drink alot.
I do not drink..... nor do i OC.
I'm the "Movie God of CHCH", only challenger would be nXus, but he just grabs anything he can....
Goal in life: To stimulate production of ATP in cells using electricity, allowing Nerve axions to replace wires in complex machinery.

[Humantuckshop]

I'm 20 years old, I get up @ 3PM each day and do f*** all. :D

[Ragnor]

Me I'm another one of the poor uni students that spend way too many hours in this forum...

21, last year of a Bcom in Infomation System.. with some Data communications thrown in there and some cisco ccna going on.

I'm a bit of [h]ardcore gamer.. which drives me to upgrade, overclock and thus into the loving arms of this forum..

I'm currently found either brandishing my lightsaber on the inspire jk2 server or running some ****s over in GTA III... while doing my best to avoid uni work and this crazy big system project I have to do... gar

[paul rhee]

i am 20 years old and.. my name is paul rhee and i go to University of Canterbury and taking same class with Swiftynz for the most of time (but none of us make it to the classroom often)

I am a Korean and hmm.. nothing special about me actually.. :-)
oh.. and my avatar is YF-23 "Black Widow 2"

[Humantuckshop]

Originally posted by Humantuckshop
I'm 20 years old, I get up @ 3PM each day and do f*** all. :D


I was also raised by wolves.

[PsYcHo]

Originally posted by Humantuckshop
I'm 20 years old, I get up @ 3PM each day and do f*** all. :D

OMG me toooooooooooooo :)
'cept i'm ususally up a bit earlier than 3 :p

[Jazzed]

I just dont know where to start........you guys are so scincere I feel if I could really open up to you...;)


Did 5 years as a student in Auck and WGTN BMUS stuff both performance and academic, but instead of ending up with a doctorate I got nothing to show for it......our student hall's motto was "We're a Drinking Hostel with a University problem....proudly funded by student loans"

I have been a musician for a while...no pay ****e hours, having to teach the arragant little ****es at skool that just took my lessons to get outta math, playing to drunk obnock/obnoq...dammit stupid people in bars that dont give a ****e if you are laying down the phattest grooves in town, they just want to dance to some little boy band...:mad:<has to restrain fist from going through monitor>........

on a side note I feel that my anger management is really comming along nicely :D

anyway back to my short (i know your hoping for short) post all about me.....

Had an EQ addiction for a while, but I am over that now....DAMMIT DID YOU KS ME!!!!!! ....unfortunately still get flashbacks every now and then.

gave up the music, am now a full time compuder g33k for one of the big 4 accounting firms. Alot happier in my pay bracket :) but one day will get back to the music.

I am 28 married with one cat.

[fatsanchez]

18, first year of BInfoTech, because my maths is too crusty to do a real degree like a bcms or something..:)

[Joshsti_NZ]

Wel umm err I'm a 16 year old g33k (:cool: ), studying for my National Cert. In Computing, only 'cause im too lazy to-go-to uni, I work part time at *cough* Foodtown *cough* so i have a little money (;) ) for computer/techy bits ... thats all folks.

[fraz]

20yr student in auckland, originally from the naki!!:D
Im usually flat broke as if i havent blown my money on bits and pieces for my comp, i have blown it on tools or car parts

[Mashed_Penguin]

Hey, I'm a 19 year old student from christchurch who spends more time skiing than thinking about studying and more time thinking about studying than actually doing it. :D

Welcome to the forums man.

[2 much thinking]

im 17 doing the Cert IT from the CHCH Poly at CCC (http://www.ict.school.nz)

i Stare at my computer screen at home and course for many hours of the day, in between studying i like to play my guitar, muck around with electronics, Snowboad and drive nice cars my dad brings home for work:D

[dustyslapper]

I am ex naki lad down here in Dunedin. Not too bad - I'm going to do journalism post-grad either next year, or the year after.

[Antimatter]

I'm 30 and work as Manager/Computer Technician for my own computer repair company.
I've never fried anything by overclocking it...yet. ;)

[Py7h0n]

Basically a 16 Year old college student who is sick of school and wants it to be over with tomorrow (Pitty about having to do 7th form :()

I blow ALL my cash on upgrading the 3 pc's in my house :D and when not upgrading /tweeking I stair at my computer screen, post in these forums and play games (eg:DMORROWOOD:D:DGTA3:D.. and many others )

wanting to study Bio Chem after college if I get into Uni

[Tojja]

24 (25 on 14th June) year old owner/MD of LiquidCC.

Life is fun. I like MTBing, working on cars, overclocking, and watercooling (above most everything). Still into good times, must hark back to my student days (Whet69 will be seeing a very strange video in the next few days to attest to that).

I flat with Whetu69 and a few other g33ks.

I have a Becom, DipGrad and pending Master in Business (WIP kinda).

I work (aka real job) for Industrial Research Limited, in Gracefield, Lower Hutt. Big research centre (ex DSIR) - will post a pic of the 7m high tank of Liquid Nitrogen outside my office sometime :)

I have no science background - am client devlopment manager (interface between the scinetists and the clients). Good fun mostly, sees me all over the place.

Oh and did I mention I own LiquidCC ;) My pride and time-consuming joy....

[Control_Phreak]

18, 2nd year student at MIT doing a Bachelor of Information Systems.

and I just gt out of my oracle test a few mins ago and am 110% sure i failed it... :(

[Glycerine]

21,work parttime, full time student at MIT, got a half finished Dip. in Electrical Eng. also a half finished Dip. in Electronic Eng.
and a Half finished Dip. in Comp Eng..
and ive done 1 out of 4 papers towards CCNA,
i really gotta finish one of these soon :)

[Control_Phreak]

Originally posted by Glycerine
and ive done 1 out of 4 papers towards CCNA,


I'm doing my practical for CCNA (Semester 2) in an hour :)

at least I'll pass this... not like oracle *groan*

[Glycerine]

GL...
wat block are you in??

thought u were on nth campus??
do they run the ccna papers aswell??

[Wibber]

ha.. cisco semester 1-4= piss easy.. (cept wildcard masks connfuse me)
then you get to Sem 5 :( too much work

[nomad[32]]

I'm 16, at Christchurch Boys' High School. Ding bursary/sfc subjects and hopefully a ccna class soon....

I'm a music guy, piano, doing grade 8 this year (I have no idea how i pass any exams as i do no practice :))

Linux, mmmmmmmmmm :D:D

Going to do B.Mus and COSC next year, maybe chem or physics as well.....

I do some payed work (linux admin stuff) and some volountary (for people who are too poor ;))

[Glycerine]

Originally posted by Wibber
ha.. cisco semester 1-4= piss easy.. (cept wildcard masks connfuse me)
then you get to Sem 5 :( too much work

theres a sem 5?? we only have 1-4 then u can sit the CCNA exam..
and yeh it must be easy coz i passed... hardly went to class or labs... to damn boring!

[Agent666]

27 ... student

[oiad]

Well.

I'm 19. I don't have a drinking problem. I'm not a first time caller, I wasnt raised by wolves and i drive a forklift 40 hours a week for Foodstuffs in Christchurch.

Beware. The next time you have your bangers and mash dinner or Spagehettietie (Christ damn that's a stupid freaking word) I've probably kicked, dropped, driven over or severily beaten that can or box that you got the food from.

Oh, Whetu, I even dropped a pallet of Tui the other day. (over $1-2000 worth of damage)

I hid for a while... cried.. contemplated suicide, the usual things.

Life sucks, Foodstuffs sucks. But, The stupid dorks let me loose on a 5 or so tonne forklift.

Who am i to complain?

[Wibber]

semester 5 =CCNP, teh next one up

[DiscoStu]

21, BCom in Marketing & Info Systems, beginning Hons in Info Sytems.

I also run RadiativeNZ in my spare time and spend quite a lot of time sweet talkin (well trying to) hardware manufacturers.

Originally posted by Ragnor
Me I'm another one of the poor uni students that spend way too many hours in this forum...

21, last year of a Bcom in Infomation System.. with some Data communications thrown in there and some cisco ccna going on.

Just noticed your in auckland dude. Would that mean that you're at UoA doing a BCom?
I'm guessing Advanced Datacom with Jairo?

[SecretSquirrel]

I'm 16, at Christchurch Boys' High School. Ding bursary/sfc subjects and hopefully a ccna class soon....


BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BLACK! BLOOOOOOOOOOOO BLACK!

I feel SOME sort of semi-pride that I went there, even though I frigging hated school, still can feel like the fool for not concentrating when I should...

Life sucks, Foodstuffs sucks. But, The stupid dorks let me loose on a 5 or so tonne forklift.

hehehe, now its getting soggy outside, make sure you park that fat heavy sucker on the grass ;)

My friend was a computer tech upstairs, and the one time I visited there, someone had done such a thing, and the forklift was rather deep in the grass :D



Anyway, back to ME DAMNIT! 26, feeling like I am 36, looking like I am 16 (except for my pimp beard).
I have 3 sons, they are probably all going to be completely fvcked up mentally, due to the sense of humour my friends and I have, and most likely they will all be gay. Then again, I dont neglect them hugs and the love, but I mean, they just seem SO fruity! Is it normal for a 4 year old to tell you that they love EVERYTHING? He tells all my friends that he loves them, and most of the time they tend to cringe and smile nervously and make sure they are zipped up...

Anyway, I am semi-married, one day it will be proper etc...I work part time in a monitoring room, monitoring alarms, which sounds like a small-time job, but in saying that, I get to deal with peoples lives, and when you realise that, its shivery bottom/back area time.

Also, it sucks when one of the people you are calling the ambulance for dies...but then again, nothing compared to how much it would suck being that person, or the family...

The rest of my time is spent looking after my babies during the weekdays, as my partner works in a real job, making more than I do in an 18 hour week in one day...but thats the game of it all, isnt it. And of course, the network game days...saturdays I work from 11:30pm till 6:30am on sunday, sleep till lunch, get up and play netgames till early hours of monday morning with some other nerds...I really must get a computer ready for my partner, she always wants to nerd too, and there's always room for overclocking chicks ;)

[ends rant #5 for the night]

(If I have to edit this fvcking thing one more time, I'll format the internet again, goddamnit)

[Geek4Life]

Originally posted by Tojja
24 (25 on 14th June) year old owner/MD of LiquidCC.

I work (aka real job) for Industrial Research Limited, in Gracefield, Lower Hutt. Big research centre (ex DSIR) - will post a pic of the 7m high tank of Liquid Nitrogen outside my office sometime :)

Oh and did I mention I own LiquidCC ;) My pride and time-consuming joy....
Please tell me that your computer in your office is running extremely cold. Can a LiquiddCC block handle the liquild nitrogen. :D

[Ragnor]

Originally posted by DiscoStu
Just noticed your in auckland dude. Would that mean that you're at UoA doing a BCom?
I'm guessing Advanced Datacom with Jairo?

Indeed I am... :)

I'm assuming you are too?

Can you guess who I am .. I can't quite picture who you are..

I've been slacking off on the ole infosys339 because of the madhouse that is infosys340

..got only 2 hours today to finish the last 2 chapter tests and the sem4 exam.. not too worried but a pain in the A

[dumass]

18yr old, 6 foot 4" lanky barsted.

Second year Batch. Info systems, computer science and software engineering joint major @ massey, palmerston North.

Work 10 - 15 hours a week delivering pizzas @ pizza hut..

Ill have my degree when im 19 and then im off to america, or europe :)

[Control_Phreak]

Originally posted by Glycerine
GL...
wat block are you in??

thought u were on nth campus??
do they run the ccna papers aswell??

yeh im at the north campus, i come down to south campus just for CCNA.

I passed it btw.... bloody easy too.

[whetu]

Originally posted by Tojja
24 (25 on 14th June) year old owner/MD of LiquidCC.
buggar... two birthdays on the same day that i have to deal to... my older brother shares that birthday

*mumbles*

19 going on 20 years old, male, currently studying to attain CBC at weltec, (www.weltec.ac.nz) although a sh*tty last few months have ensured that what was meant to be a one year course has turned into a one and a half year course...and a higher student loan:mad: after i gain that i'll follow up with dipBC mastering in networking, and then perhaps finally get around to getting my butchers cert.

I now live close to tech, flatting with mr liquidcc and a couple of g33k mates from tech

i'm a meat retail assistant (butcher boy) by trade, which also brings the titles of professional pervert and professional boozehound. professional gambling loser is another option available to meat retail assistants, but i declined to accept that title.

i also spend a lot of time ruling over these forums with an iron fist.

that is all

[mird-OC]

Originally posted by dumass
... joint major ...

heh heh. heh. heeeehhh....

[ktulu]

Originally posted by SecretSquirrel

Anyway, I am semi-married, one day it will be proper etc...

Didn't realise we had same sex marriges in NZ yet.... j/k

3 sons! see why you want that vasectomy ;) :p

[DiscoStu]

Originally posted by Ragnor


Indeed I am... :)

I'm assuming you are too?

Can you guess who I am .. I can't quite picture who you are..

I've been slacking off on the ole infosys339 because of the madhouse that is infosys340

..got only 2 hours today to finish the last 2 chapter tests and the sem4 exam.. not too worried but a pain in the A
nah - did it last semester. And doing postgrad datacom with him as well since he seems to keep giving me A's :D

Doing mostly marketing papers atm, but also 320.

[haytona]

i've just graduated last year from ucol with a BAppIS. Just landed my first job as a developer in wellington. I'm a SCJP which isn't realyl that flash but quite uncommon in new zealand. currently maintaining the stuff.co.nz website.

i've just got enganged and don't have as much time for this forum as when i was unemployed :( *cries as memories of last forum (and original one) overwhelm male insinct to never cry* *not again!

[-=DEI[]v[]OS=-]

I'm 26 and screw things for a living


Well I am 26......and I build high powered drives (60-660 amp :eek: ) for PDL electronics which involves a lot of screwing (of things together)

I also work with other people who like to screw (things up) and so I spend some of my day dealing with that to :p

Oh how I long for a g33k job.....sigh.....my BCS was cut down in it's first year by the arrival of my son (and the need for a job) maybe 1 day I'll be able to afford to go back

[Antallica]

I'm 16 and goto a real poos catholic school (I'm not cath either heh). I work at a supermarket (only a few more months and I will have worked there a year, $.30c pay rise here I come!! hehe) and enjoy continually making my pc unstable at rediculous fsb speeds. :D Hope to be a PC Technician by the end of next year.

"Ride the Big One"

[crux]

I'm 19 living in Wellington, in my second year of a BSc at Victoria university majoring in Statistics with the hope of becoming an aspiring Statistician and a Financial mathematician.
Hopefully this will fund the urge I have of tweaking/cooling/upgrading.

[Tiggerz]

My name is not fred and I have absolutely know idea who he is.

I'm not educated.. Wouldn't let me in to uni coz I was too stupid.

Am 33 and specialise in humongously stupendously large software development projects that cost at least 1billion, work in several countries and involve at least 30,000 people. When I am not overseas doing those, I come back here and do nothing.

Currently working for a company that believes it is the second largest in the world fixing the mistakes for another company that thinks its the 14th largest in the world..

This is of course the same as doing nothing.. Except getting paid for it.. Am about to give up doing nothing for someone else and get government funding for doing nothing for my self.

In ireland - nothing happened.. But they are working on it.. They havn't invented nothing here yet - which makes it a good place to come back to.. no-one will ask you to do anything.

[GooGlo]

I am 14, Go to Avondale College, Spend too much time playing games,

I buy and sell computer hardware for money and have burning red hair :)

[utopian201]

18, first and half year at university hoping to major in computer science and accounting/finance/information systems
:P

im poor, on a student loan and work at this place where they pay me slave wages

my computer is POS and i dont know y i spend so much time on it......har har these are supposed to be the best years of my life......

[swiftynz]

Originally posted by utopian201
18, first and half year at university hoping to major in computer science and accounting/finance/information systems
:P
so i take it you do cosc121 and math115 like paul and i?

i also take stat111, afis123 and econ104 :).

[Johnnyboy]

I'm 31 and I play with the latest hardware all day....everyday...I'm director of a certain Computer Boutique located at www.stylespc.com ,where i sometimes answer the phone but generally spend my entire day answering emails from the good folks in this fourm ;)
I plan to take over the world, become a billionaire and get as many people there with me as possible.....
Thank you and come again...

[utopian201]

swiftyNZ :)

yeh i do math 115 (the test was alright a?? :))
and afis 123 (that was harder eh? :P))
and also stat 111 (boring eh!?)

but i did cosc 121 and 122 in highschool, so thats y im first year and a half :P

hehe yeh it would b kinda.......cool i guess to know ppl in real life who r on this....well.....i know 1 person on here in real life

btw i dont know paul
:P

[Viper_NZ]

19years old coming up twenty....

Computer tech, not much else to say really

[MrThc]

Hi, Im MrThc, 23.. and Im an overclockaholic :rolleyes:

I stay up all night, sleep all day.. and am a fulltime customer @ www.stylespc.com :D

[swiftynz]

utopian201:

i actually didn't find the afis123 test hard at all. i thought it was fair but knowing me i probably got it all wrong and stuffed the whole thing up! :p

math115 was ok but i forgot euclids algorithm... there goes 25% DAMNIT!! :mad:

stat111 is soooo boring. first term i learnt nothing. this term is seventh form. need i say more :p.

now the cosc121 assignment... LOL
mines not going too well but i'm slowly figuring it out. you're probably having no problems at all lol.

if you're wondering who i am, i always sit down the front left of the cosc lecture theatre (C1, as you look towards the front) in the second row with two other guys i know from the halls. one of thems a bloody genius and is probably going to be demonstrating opengl to our class as his assignment!!

[CrazySurfaNZ]

Hey, im stephen, 17 year old boarding in chch, i come from tokoroa and i attend the Christchurch College of Computing (http://www.ccc.school.nz) along with Geek4Life

[Geek4Life]

As well as 2 much thinking and Daza. ;)

[SecretSquirrel]

Originally posted by Johnnyboy
I'm 31 and I play with the latest hardware all day....everyday...I'm director of a certain Computer Boutique located at www.stylespc.com ,where i sometimes answer the phone but generally spend my entire day answering emails from the good folks in this fourm ;)
I plan to take over the world, become a billionaire and get as many people there with me as possible.....
Thank you and come again...

Do you need anyone for your harem*? If so, count me in, Sir.


*Manbizitches

[enzy]

Hello.

I am 16 years old - turning 17 on the 28th of June. Currently studying in Hillcrest High. I'm also doing some freelance web design.. Maintaining a few sites.. Running radiativenz.com.

I spend my whole day figuring out how a site should look like. Play games. Learn to do better graphics. Uhh.. What's more.. Will list more later. ;)

Enzy

[Subaru_Fan]

Im 18 and doing 2 certs at ucol this year, then starting a bachelor of information systems next year.
:)

[Ripping]

Ok.. I must be the old man of the forum.. unless anyone else over 35 is not 'coming out' . ! ;)
36, single (ahhhhhhhh!! :) , and I'm in the steel industry..
I also plan to be a billionaire... but I'm not sure if I'll live that long.
I hope people will remember me by saying "Who was that guy? ":D

[Py7h0n]

That's why I can't keep up with you guys ... 36 and working ... damn sweet.... heaps of cash to blow on pc parts :D

[Hori]

BUMP and sit. rep. GO!

[szukalski]

( 12:02:09 ) ( Iblis ) Hori
( 12:02:17 ) ( Iblis ) http://forums.overclockers.co.nz/showthread.php?t=288 why did you bump that?
( 12:04:61 ) ( Hori ) I'm looking for a ban

[theYANK]

hay guise wots goin on in dis thred

[aim]

Blast from the past!

[swiftynz]

Yeah um, wow. Funny what 7 years does.

[Wibber]

makes you 7 years older?

[shaggles]

^I was thinking the same thing.

Anyway's, forget this. Post something to stir stuff up in the anti smacking thread :D

[Laykun]

22, crack pusher and pimp. Dawg.

[FlyingAttackSquirrel]

29 (30 in 6 months to the day) and feeling really old looking at the ages of everyone else here.
I work for a bank.

[FlyingAttackSquirrel]

i also spend a lot of time ruling over these forums with an iron fist.

that is all


You could find some time to update this...

http://rawiriblundell.com/

[SnoSalmon]

29 (30 in 6 months to the day) and feeling really old looking at the ages of everyone else here.
I work for a bank.

I was awake for days before my 30th...

[FlyingAttackSquirrel]

I guess most people have heard the "Wear Sunscreen" song but it is true.

This was my first computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI99/4A

Then the Spectrum ZX 2+
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum


Following this came DOS and Xtree Gold.
I am at the point I don't care anymore about Gigawhatsits anymore. Look upon me and laugh, but it will happen to you all... Bwah ha ha haaaa.....

[fearerer]

Following this came DOS and Xtree Gold

Ahh xtree gold, man i remember that - was pretty awesome really.

I'm only 25 but when i was a kid all our games were setup in xtree gold (lots of games), well atleast when we had a 386 - the 286 just had dos on it.

Microsoft flight simulator FTW.

[sparkles]

Ahh xtree gold, man i remember that - was pretty awesome really.

I'm only 25 but when i was a kid all our games were setup in xtree gold (lots of games), well atleast when we had a 386 - the 286 just had dos on it.

Microsoft flight simulator FTW.
Xtree Gold sucked balls. OS6/7 Klicky-Bunty-Goodness FTW!

[Sumo]

I guess most people have heard the "Wear Sunscreen" song but it is true.

This was my first computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI99/4A

Then the Spectrum ZX 2+
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum


Following this came DOS and Xtree Gold.
I am at the point I don't care anymore about Gigawhatsits anymore. Look upon me and laugh, but it will happen to you all... Bwah ha ha haaaa.....

**** I am old too.... I just had a flash back... oh the pain of getting old.

[imdying]

Xtree Gold sucked balls. OS6/7 Klicky-Bunty-Goodness FTW!Psssssh old man, XTG was the tits :D

[MR_60]

Psssssh old man, XTG was the tits :D

QFT, And Great Justice!

[utopian201]

It might be interesting to quote our original post and post your age and what you do now...?

18, first and half year at university hoping to major in computer science and accounting/finance/information systems
:P

im poor, on a student loan and work at this place where they pay me slave wages

my computer is POS and i dont know y i spend so much time on it......har har these are supposed to be the best years of my life......

Finished university after 5.5 years, doing a normal degree, then honours then a masters.
Now I'm working for the man as a software developer and my student loan is over 40k.
My computer is actually still the same computer as when I made that post 7 years ago (but with additional HDD and additional larger screen). Its funney how some things change and others stay the same.

[Battle_Moose]

*Shudder* A whole thread full of old fogies, anyway, now 18, 19 on trade towers anniversary, currently apprentice engineer on 80m factory trawler, more monies than all my friends and lovin it.

[neoprint]

23, a member of John Key's counterstrike team.

bring on september 10th.

[Undertaker]

Why did the OP change to a different username, that one was awesome ;).

[Antallica]

I was 16 when I posted in this thread last time :o oh being young and dumb....

[MercuryFree]

I am 12 years old, and what is this?

[misslacrymosa1989]

20 and I have been lurking in the forums unregistered for about 3 years :D Was IT, Nursing and Fashion Design Student. I now work in an undisclosed shop in Invercargill as a sales lady ^^

[sparkles]

*Shudder* A whole thread full of old fogies, anyway, now 18, 19 on trade towers anniversary, currently apprentice engineer on 80m factory trawler, more monies than all my friends and lovin it.
Get off my lawn!

Psssssh old man, XTG was the tits

Oh, and old is only when you're married :p (so I still have a year...)

[SnoSalmon]

Oh, and old is only when you're married :p (so I still have a year...)

Old is when you shake your fist at todays youth! :D

31 and senior systems engineer anyway.

[szukalski]

Old is when you shake your fist at todays youth! :D

31 and senior systems engineer anyway.

You work for Gen-I?

[swiftynz]

I'm an 18 year old bum student at the University of Canterbury. I'm currently in my first year doing a BCom but that could change...I did finish that degree (miraculously), but it took 4 years. I still have no regrets about doing the degree, and after 3.5 years of working (that's not a terribly long career is it?) the student loan is well under 30k. I'm somewhat reluctant to pay it off while it's not accumulating interest and have only been making the minimum repayments!

I'm now living in Auckland and working as a Network Administrator / Systems Engineer. My responsibility and area of expertise is mainly around Novell and Linux platforms, but I look after Windows sites as well which is useful for keeping my fingers in the Microsoft pie.

[SnoSalmon]

You work for Gen-I?

No, not a national company, smaller firm with 7 staff :)

I've been there for like ever, last contract rounds I decided I nice proper title befitting would be a good idea :D

We have done work on behalf of Gen-I on a contract basis.

[aim]

Well I'm nineteen, currently studying towards a BE at Canterbury. Have a part time job doing IT work for a company. Right now however I'm in bed with a laptop browsing forums with a tray of eggs on toast made for me :)

I love being a student sometimes... However money is always scarce...

[ColinPowell]

Well I'm nineteen, currently studying towards a BE at Canterbury. Have a part time job doing IT work for a company. Right now however I'm in bed with a laptop browsing forums with a tray of eggs on toast made for me :)

I love being a student sometimes... However money is always scarce...

Your flatmates made you breakfast in bed? I think they are keen on you. That, or your Mum needs to kick you out.

[aim]

Girlfriend actually. She's good like that...

[Dstruktiv]

I started doing a degree at CPIT when I was 17, left high school after 6th form, I think I made it roughly 8 months in to the degree, then got hired by a relatively well known software company in Christchurch.

I finished off all the papers I was doing but am yet to return and continue it. Can't complain though, I'm 19 now and have a lot of work experience + been through multiple promotions/pay rises.

When I first started at 17, I went from part time pizza hut pay to a full time salary, I thought I was so rich I couldn't believe it, looking back I now see they started me on the lowest minimum pay they possibly could (They have pay scales for each position), still, it was good money for a 17 year old :p

I wonder where I'll be in a few years time... Scary thought.

[Big_D]

I'm a 20 year old doing first year of BIT at the Otago Polytechnic.
It sucks, its boring, don't do it.

[Spoon]

I'm a 20 year old doing first year of BIT at the Otago Polytechnic.
It sucks, its boring, don't do it.
Been there, done that, and earning a lot more dosh than I would've done without it. First year is always going to be a bit boring.

[MoNk]

I was doing web graphic design back then.

I now administer a Nortel Merdian SL1 and Nortel CS1000e, and help run a helpdesk. Lots of fun, and always learning more every day.

[Lucazader]

I am 18. I am a 7th former at college.
I work part time at Pak 'n' Save Wairau rd.
Looking to do a BE at Auckland uni next year.

[Kingy08]

I'm a 20 year old doing first year of BIT at the Otago Polytechnic.
It sucks, its boring, don't do it.

I'm in 2nd year of a BICT, and its pretty sweet. The majority of the stuff we learn I already have a pretty decent knowledge in. So cruisy work whilst getting the good grades!

[SnoSalmon]

When I first started at 17, I went from part time pizza hut pay to a full time salary, I thought I was so rich I couldn't believe it, looking back I now see they started me on the lowest minimum pay they possibly could (They have pay scales for each position), still, it was good money for a 17 year old :p

I wonder where I'll be in a few years time... Scary thought.

Same. I was 18, insane pay for a young fella.

I wondered the exact thing too, and I'm in the same job. Not complaining though :)

[Geek4Life]

I'm in 2nd year of a BICT, and its pretty sweet. The majority of the stuff we learn I already have a pretty decent knowledge in. So cruisy work whilst getting the good grades!

Watch out!
Suddenly you'll realise the course content is actually new... and so were the previous 6 weeks as well.

[Wibber]

I R has no job :/

[Big_D]

Watch out!
Suddenly you'll realise the course content is actually new... and so were the previous 6 weeks as well.

Yep, that happned with me last year when I was doing IT service and support, it was old useless **** with new stuff mixed in as well, get to the end of the semester and relised that I only knew about 75% of it. (and then forgot to submit some tests witch were worth like 20% of the total mark because I was away in chch for the weekend and only got a C+ in that paper :mad: )

[OSiRiS]

I'm 22 and I thrash the **** out of jetskis.

http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs147.snc1/5455_128142011347_681551347_3509984_8365838_n.jpg
http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs088.snc1/5071_120324691347_681551347_3355799_2988817_n.jpg
http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs108.snc1/5071_120617261347_681551347_3362609_6034227_n.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNDCwW8HAcs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcVVDOP9QIo

:D

[the triple P]

I'm 22 and I thrash the **** out of jetskis.

:D

Sick job mate :D im 21, goin on 22. Workin on the old mans farm. We farm like its the 70's. :(

[Mevunky]

24, IT Admin/Manager for a large sauce manufacturer.

[Battle_Moose]

Sauce? What kind?

[szukalski]

I'm 29 and work for a Telco maintaining servers.

I really feel old.

[Hori]

18 and a secondary school student, on the eve of significant lifestyle change. Wonder where I'll be in 7 years.:confused:

[neoprint]

Wonder where I'll be in 7 years.:confused:

I can think of a few possibilities:

A) Prison
B) Rehab
C) Prison
D) Flat on your back with a bottle in your hand
E) Prison
F) Dead
G) Prison

[Hori]

I can think of a few possibilities:

A) Prison
B) Rehab
C) Prison
D) Flat on your back with a bottle in your hand
E) Prison
F) Dead
G) Prison

I'll see you there. Do you think we'll get porridge?

[Distorted]

I can think of a few possibilities:

A) Prison
B) Rehab
C) Prison
D) Flat on your back with a bottle in your hand
E) Prison
F) Dead
G) Prison

Well now that we've got your future out of the way we can move onto Hori's future.
Though I think your prediction might be a little off. Maybe a little less prison and a little more drug ****ed/dead and a few wahs on the internets about how your life sucks inbetween.

To be fair 7 years will probably see Hori spend a significant chunk of that at Uni and a significant chuck flat on his back with bottle in hand, maybe a brief stint in court but probably a lot better off than yourself

[szukalski]

I can think of a few possibilities:

A) Prison
B) Rehab
C) Prison
D) Flat on your back with a bottle in your hand
E) Prison
F) Dead
G) Prison

H) Pregnant and barefoot

[Iblis]

16/f/cali im a cashier at safeway

[Hori]

16/f/cali im a cashier at safeway

I'll do you the safeway.

[FlyingAttackSquirrel]

Hori spend a significant chunk of that at Uni and a significant chuck flat on his back with bottle in hand, maybe a brief stint in court but probably a lot better off than yourself



Those 3 tend to go hand in hand.

[Distorted]

Those 3 tend to go hand in hand.

That was kinda the implication there ;)

[BloodDonor]

16/f/cali im a cashier at safeway


HD Video or it didnt happen :D

[Growly]

I'm 20 and a third year doing a bachelor of some sort of computer engineering at Victoria.

Soon it will be three years to the day that I started doing it all very very very wrong.

Very wrong.

But naw, I actually work with Iblis at Safeway.

[Requiem.trigger]

I'm 20 and a third year doing a bachelor of some sort of computer engineering at Victoria.
I'm 20 and a third year doing a bachelor
doing a bachelor10chararararacters

[rhysee]

30 something and working in Fujitsu NZ

[vulcan]

22.

Plumber/Gasfitter.

[ktulu]

Then...
31 (i think... memories starting to fail on me) and I'm a production supervisor for NZMP (part of Fontera) where I make milkpowder (well "I" dont make it... I tell others how to make it, which is rather ironic, cause I have no idea what I'm doing).
In my spare time (what little there is), I run www.coolcases.co.nz (http://www.coolcases.co.nz/) from home.

Now...
Age: 37
Job: Production Planner for a Waikato Fonterra site
Oh how time flys... I've left Fonterra for 3 years and come back again since last posting here.

[Wh171]

20
Self employed.

[MoNk]

Wh171!

Selling drugs? :D

[Mevunky]

"Who is you're Daddy and what does he do?"

[Wh171]

Wh171!

Selling drugs? :D

No actually got diagnosed with crohn's so working for myself is my best option atm. Should have a my site up in a couple of days :D

[MoNk]

That sucks man, sorry to hear that.

Good on ya for keeping busy at home. Good luck :)

[the triple P]

I'm 29 and work for a Telco maintaining servers.

I really feel old.

If you don't mind me asking. How does one manage to get such a job ?

[szukalski]

If you don't mind me asking. How does one manage to get such a job ?

I did it the old fashioned way, started off in Level 1 support, moved into Level 2 Server Support, then onto Level 3. Moving from L1 to L2 usually involves specialist product knowledge, or the start of some technical certs. If you wanted to bust straight into L2, I'd say get some certs (RHCT/RHCE for Linux, MCITP for Wintel) and apply away. Helps if you are a geek as well.

L2 to L3 is the hardest step, you won't get there without maturity and an ability to work with projects, but the role is all about responsibility and being able to make judgement calls which the business hinges on, so you want a mature professional in the role.

Makes you wonder how I got to be L3... I may be a bit of a joker, but when it hits the fan I am a serious cookie.

Knowing where to apply is also a big thing, if you want to advance career wise then you probably want to work for a larger company with enterprise spec'd gear. Clusters of servers, dedicated network and server teams, etc. Else you end up as a sysadmin for a SME and never get a chance to advance your knowledge or work with the big toys.

Gen-I seems to be the place to look, especially with their dedicated teams being created, but there are a few others out there as well.

If you want to talk about it, PM me by all means, I'm more than happy to provide some career advice (career > job), if someone had done it for me then I'd be 2-3yrs ahead in the game I reckon.

[Growly]

How do I take advantage of first years? Initially I thought maybe it'd be more right by some moral framework to not, but now I'm getting more and more evidence to the contrary... that is to say I had principles but the realities of the world have all by exterminated my naive, romantic notions of good, and truth, and purity, etc etc... anyway that's not the point. How is this done?

Alcohol, surely...

[szukalski]

Become a tutor. My biggest regret was not taking up the offer.. apparently this is easy meat.

As long as you don't stab them to death.

[BiancaB]

Yep, I'm 40 and I'm a technical writer and freelance IT writer. Love being in my 40s...****loads of money and have got all the toys I need already. What can I go out and buy next....hmmmm

[Growly]

Become a tutor. My biggest regret was not taking up the offer.. apparently this is easy meat.

As long as you don't stab them to death.

Actually, I did that, but I end up helping out instead of exploiting. Still doing it wrong.

[szukalski]

There is never anything wrong with being the good guy. IT is full of them.

And Karma is an awesome pay-off.

[Vezm]

20 Armourer

[opaque]

20 Armourer

Damnit, you get fun toys to play with.

21, IT Engineer