foogledricks 429 Report post Posted May 7 3 hours ago, Magness said: Haley is 27 now and has a good job, lives outside London in a crappy flat Wait, you moved to England. But are you originally from there? Just wondering if you're a Brit, or if you are an American who speaks funny. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magness 252 Report post Posted May 7 Heh no, American born in TX but lived in Colorado for the most part and we moved to England 12 years ago now. We have permanent residence for the UK now and I’ll probably go for dual-citizenship next year. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JTello 230 Report post Posted May 7 Texas, Colorado, UK. All very different places! For the fun of it,... Rank'em! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magness 252 Report post Posted May 7 Fair enough, for me it’s the UK then Colorado then Texas. And for Keith - if I didn’t call it a flat, she’d give me shit over it (and call me a Yank) 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Adam Tyner 91 Report post Posted May 8 I don't really have any fascinating updates to share, alas. I was hired by an online travel guide startup out of college. Eighteen and a half years later (!), I'm still here, although we've changed hands a few times, so now I get to say that I'm a senior software engineer for USA TODAY. Still live in the Upstate of South Carolina. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dogbert 614 Report post Posted May 9 Guess I should give my own update, seeing as I brought the thread back to life after finding it randomly while searching for something else Since my last post? Still thoroughly love what I do, despite the ups & downs of the game industry. I've survived layoffs, been through one studio closure (and literally moved to another studio on the same floor - meetings in our "old" space were weird), moved to Austin, and have thoroughly put down roots here. I'm now part of a studio that definitely not going away any time soon, so there's more security than I've had in 15 years. They keep giving me more responsibility, I still get room to make a frontline impact on our live product ("DevLive" for the win), but I definitely don't get to code as much as I'm used to. 5 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
secretvampire 243 Report post Posted May 9 Started a new job almost a year ago still doing software development, I am the lead mobile dev for a three year-old startup based out of Seattle area. I handle both the iOS and Android versions of our end-user app. We have a small office in the Bay Area, too, but I'm the only person that is truly remote. I thoroughly love all of the people I work with, I get to travel out to Seattle every few months where my best friend lives, and occasionally to SF as well. At the same time, if you've followed my other thread, I own a couple of beer bars (our second one opened a few weeks ago) which are hopefully my long-term plan. I love my day job, and also after 20+ years in the dev world, I look forward to the day when I write my last line of code. I could probably eek by on the income from the first bar (and my wife's job) and quit my day job in theory, but I'm just not ready to do that yet. 7 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Carlucci 396 Report post Posted May 9 Still working IT for BigOil, still loving it. I'm changing departments in June from the deepwater drilling group back to centralized IT, because that's where all the action is now with Cloud Computing. I'll be in more of a consulting role than purely technical, and that suits me just fine. My focus will still be in data management, probably to facilitate moves from Oracle to SQL server. Since we're moving toward 100% in bed with Microsoft now. I'm trying to put myself on a 7-8 year plan for retirement with a big fat pension and a hearty 401k. Anyone else starting to dream of retirement? Carlos. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Romier S 2,243 Report post Posted May 10 I've been managing technical teams for the better part of 15 years now and I enjoy it. I can't say I love it but there are worst careers. I enjoy managing and mentoring people. With that having been said though, I officially accepted a new position in my company doing Salesforce administration today. It's an opportunity that presented itself seemingly out of nowhere but the woman in charge of the IT group is going on maternity leave and we've been without any CRM administrators for the better part of 3 months now due to regular attrition. I have had some experience with it in the past and she gave me administrator rights and I've been functioning in that role as a side job to my regular day job helping her out. She loved the work I did to the point where she aggressively headhunted me and officially sent over a job offer through my HR rep for a significant amount of money and senior analyst title that I could not say no to. It helps that I really enjoyed the hell out of the work itself, too. So I'm a little scared but super excited. Scared because its a whole new world but excited for the challenge and to get my feet wet in the world of Salesforce which is a highly marketable skill that will allow me to branch out from what I've been doing for a very long time. 6 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Carlucci 396 Report post Posted July 15 Man, switching jobs in my company feels like the smartest thing I've done in a long time. They were bereft of an experienced Oracle guy, so along with my other duties, I've become the "pro from Dover" on Oracle problems. So far, I've been extremely lucky with my recommendations and have optimized and tuned some database processes into order-of-magnitude improvements. The people here think I'm a freakin' genius! I just hope my luck doesn't run out. I'm loving it. So busy, but not bored, and that's what I was looking for. Carlos. P.S. In case you didn't get the "pro from Dover" reference... (and you definitely should!) nsfw language.... Carlos. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JTello 230 Report post Posted July 15 Congrats Carlos! 😎👍 That clip, yikes! That was like Madmen from Dover! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
