Some months ago I did another step in the right direction for my dream to become a “real” game developer (with SAP prior to that). Now I’m developing games (in Java) for a living, but the dream remains to earn money with my very own projects/games. One of which I will present to you soon - and I’m already full of anticipation for that day 
Well done on heading in the right direction for your dreams Matt_p and everyone else who’s doing it too
I do first-line tech support for a well known communications provider in the UK. It’s boring as heck as it usually comes down to “turn it off and on” or “I have to pass this to another team to investigate”. I hope to be in one of those “another teams” doing the investigation sometime soon as this field actually interests me (not as much as programming does though).
I was unemployed about a year ago for nearly 3 months and during that time I tried to get a junior programming job but with very little education backing me up I couldn’t talk my way past the sending CV stage 
So now during my spare time I plan on making a reasonably simple game with well-written, formatted and documented code that I can take to a developer to show what I can do so fingers crossed I’ll be living the dream too!
No job here, I’m a student studying software engineering :point:
Technical Evangelist for Hazelcast
Cool, Hazelcast is excellent. Used it a lot in my day job.
Cheers,
Kev
I work at an electronics manufacturing company doing a variety of different jobs. Not so much production but more along the lines of maintenance, cleaning, and random other tasks that come up.
I’m a java software dev (depending on the project, I’ve had other roles as well: architect, support, maintainer, main customer contact, team lead, tester, etc) , developing custom software for telecoms and banking. Have done eclipse based tools for industrial automation software (our tool generated C code that went into embedded systems) and also done web based tools.
But currently, I am responsible of creating auto-testing capabilities for a web based system built in php. You know, for a change, something different than the last 5~10 years …
I’m a student at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, and I’m a paid Teaching Assistant. It’s pretty fun!
Glad to hear that
Currently employed as Senior Backend Developer at Goodgame Studios. Ranging from Fullstack to Specialist. We do a lot of Sql (MySql, MariaDB) / NoSql (MongoDB, CouchBase) and some BigData ones, SPAs, more and more SaaS, and too many legacy systems 
Primary language is PHP, some JS/CSS/HTML, and for those who are familiar with, several helpers using AWK So our systems range from internal statistics over marketing to full fledged department empowered tools like localization. And many more.
I now work for Seamap, helping to build oxymoronically cetacean friendly oil exploration software. Hopefully the money raised will go towards funding further Battledroid development later in the year.
Cas
just got a job for the summer teaching at a tech summer camp
I’m jealous. This is exactly the type of work I’d like to start doing. Not sure what it looks like or how to make a living off of it, but the goal is there!
Contract assassin / cleaner… err well I usually arrive after a mess has been made by the in house staff and rescue the project. Sometimes I get in at the start and do it right… Most recently though I was a source code reviewer in a major patent litigation lawsuit (lips are sealed there as things go, but interesting nonetheless). Stoked as that last gig set me up for the rest of the year to finally get something launched of my own. If I was a glutton for punishment and travel I’d probably get into source code reviewing because it pays better than even high-end tech contracting; err cleaning, yeah…
I’m a manager and developer in a small e-commerce company in Spain.
But in practice, I spend most of my day fighting bureaucracy and watching finances. To be fair, sometimes I manage to write code, here and there.
Just started a new job few weeks ago, in a local bike shop.
Learning a lot, great fun and most important, cheap components! :D.
Don’t have a day job, currently, but I start work on Tuesday. :o
My dream job is making my own online gaming company.
I started an internship with Citrix last week! I’m now a software development engineer intern and I’m loving it!
ra4king, we can be intern buddies! I started my internship at CardinalCommerce yesterday as a web development intern doing some backend tool programming, and it’s awesome. I’m just hoping for the opportunity to turn it into a full time job at the end of the summer.
Seriously though, these people are too nice to me. I have two monitors, my own desk, a fast computer, and best of all… business cards! For an intern no less!
Oh man, almost same exact job here: doing web dev with mostly backend programming. I have 2 monitors, a beast of a desktop, a pretty large cubicle containing a massive desk… but no business cards 