Originally Posted by UnderAssumedName (Post 1096235)

My background is audio engineering and since there are no jobs in music (by that I mean you can't just start at a studio as an engineer. You basically work yourself up from trowing out the trash), I was going to open up my own high end studio (there are only a few PROPER studio's left out there, 90% of it is amateuristic bs) and worked on the plans for about 4 years. [Edited my post because it got a bit too emotional haha]. I had a lot of industry people interested and made cool contacts over the years.

The last company I worked at closed a few departments and I was out of work for just over a year. I ate up my savings to stay alive and it crushed my dreams/plans so much that I hardly touch anything music related anymore [More editing here]. In the end I'm sort of glad I didn't do it because I might have gone bankrupt considering the economy went into the pooper and how the music industry is/works in general. No one wants to pay to get something done properly because with a 1000 bucks you can 'do it like a pro' in your bedroom. Well, that's what product sellers tell them.

I now work at a very big internationally known American company with a department here in NL. The pay isn't **** but it's not was I am used to. I absolutely hate my work because I'm far too creative and dynamic to stare at databases all day but for now at least I have a steady income. I can afford my two bikes and the on average 100/150 bucks (gas is nearly twice what you pay in the US over here) I put in my tank each week to have some fun. I save a lot of money by not partying and stuff like that. Which is totally fine because I don't like it anyway haha. I have always wanted to have an own business but I now have to figure out in what. I will for sure not work for someone else for the rest of my life. Ugh! I'm going to stay here for a little bit more and find something I actually enjoy doing.

:)

Originally Posted by amRRussel (Post 1096251)

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Doooood! My goal is to become a senior engineer someday. Color me jealous, congrats!

I went to college for civil engineering. Where I currently work is a surveying company as a draftsman. I'm contracted out sort of right now to a coal company out of Pittsburgh that has me doing coal reserves, deep mine layouts, permits for coal sites etc. I got word a few weeks ago that Marshall Miller is reviewing my work and like how I'm doing things and agree with my work; that made my year to hear that! (Marshall Miller is the biggest coal engineer firm in the states and is internationally respected.) Slowly working up the ladder of success. I want to to back to school and get my Master's, soon.
I am comfortable with the pay and living is easier than it has been in the past so currently I'm enjoying life before I get back to business.

Originally Posted by Aken (Post 1096422)

I work from my bedroom making websites and web applications. Affordable Web Development & Design - Cryode Web Studio, Waukesha, Wisconsin

Originally Posted by Aken (Post 1096422)

I work from my bedroom making websites and web applications. Affordable Web Development & Design - Cryode Web Studio, Waukesha, Wisconsin

Originally Posted by comodidit (Post 1096575)

Mind if I shoot you a PM and pick your brain? I'm doing a website for a friend's company and last minute they jumped me with a couple feature requests that I've got no idea how to implement.