What were you doing before you joined the web hosting industry?

I was in a software compan's Sales Department.

Sleeping and learning Web programming....

MCSE here.. I thank god daily for getting me out of that.

I've always done some sort of customer relations work.

Really SWR? what kind? :eek:

Field Engineer for equipment makers in the semi-conductor industry.

In chronological order...
- design emergency cooling-pump motors for nuclear power plants
- quality control engineering for a record company
- marketing & tech support for a mainframe software company
- PC application software engineer
- X.25 network system software engineer
- technical services manager (network ops & software engineering)
- technology director for an enterprise software company
- software engineering management

I was an airline pilot.

Originally posted by edude
Really SWR? what kind? :eek:

I think the :eek: face really does sum that up :D
I woulda never guessed that..

i'm not evening doing anything to do with web hosting now .. i did though :D

Before that i was in primary school :D :eek:

I had a life :rolleyes:

I was working at General Motors when I started in the hosting industry, the work bored me so much I had 8 hours a day to waste, I started moderating cos I was here so much.

Then I even got bored of that, changed jobs and now there arent enough hours in the day to get drunk, work and moderate but im coping and its good fun :)

Originally posted by xtstrike
I had a life :rolleyes:
there arent enough hours in the day to get drunk, work and moderate but im coping and its good fun :)

lol maybe you should squeeze in a few hours for an "AA" class

hehe j/k ya know

are you calling me an alcoholic eh, are you, are you calling me an alcoholic, hmm, damn people calling me an alcoholic, i wouldnt call 30 bottles a day "alcoholic".

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :D ;)

30 bottles a day , 7 days a week , 30 days a month , 12 months a yea

i would say .. "dead" :eek:

Originally posted by utadmin
30 bottles a day , 7 days a week , 30 days a month , 12 months a yea

i would say .. "dead" :eek:

:)

Worked in a ISP

erm i was also going to primary school

Originally posted by xtstrike
are you calling me an alcoholic eh, are you, are you calling me an alcoholic, hmm, damn people calling me an alcoholic, i wouldnt call 30 bottles a day "alcoholic".

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :D ;)

heh you know i'm just messin :)

Before...

umm.. I was in Utero

holy %$#% studio64 on your site http://videos.std64.com/vids/wickertdies.mpeg looks like it hurt hella bad lol

i just had a car fall on my head and have a titanium plate in my head i was working on a friends camaro while mine was cooling down and i was pushing up on the gas tank to bend the filler nozzle and the car fell sideways off the jack stands

you know the sway bar that goes the contour of the back axle? well it has U bolts on it and one of those bolts was in my head along with the whole back weight of the car as the tires were off and it almost crushed my hip anyhow i have a titanium plate and am recovering and have 19 staples in my head to get taken out tuesday

http://www.ws6zxr.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10047

thats from the guy who saw it happen if you care to read

but hope your buddy head is'nt hurting to bad i know mine did

Zac

Glad to hear about other car guys on this board...

No wasn't my friend... It's a common video on the web...

I spent the last few days with a transmission resting on my chest trying (eventually successfully) to get it bolted back up to the clutch after rebuilding it b/c we don't have a tranny jack :D...

I blew the differential at the track... Shot one of the spider gears through the bell housing of the tranny... Nice big hole :D

http://std64.com/tranny


http://www.std64.com/tranny/disp.php?img=DSCF0015.jpg

^-> Good photo of the hole in the housing....

yea i dont know much about cars i had planned to learn how to change a clutch etc... on a camaro :) but all went bad and it sucks heh i should have just paid to have it done but freak accidents happen i guess.

btw.. what car is that you have i'm not much in the import scene and whats it run @ the track?

oh and the new clutch i got was a "spec" star stage 2 i could have got stage 3 but i nowhere near the 400 horses this one can hold so i'm fine with this :)

and what is the clutch you have?

99' Eclipse Syder GS-T(Turbo)
ACT 2600 Clutch
Manual Boost Control (Track runs @ 16psi)
Greddy Blow Off Valve
K&N Intake
Assorted re-ordering of turbo piping..

13.3@104

btw...

For all the import bashers...
How about a street legal 'sleeper' 11 second 1/4 car :D
http://auburnextremeracing.com/drivers/jerry/

Thought I would chip in here ;)

I was a watchmaker/jeweller.

Bit of a carreer change eh?

studio not bad

i run a 14.1@98.8 on H rated tires stock air pressure and its a 6 speed so its hard to get it outta the whole and it had a clutch that slipped so bad a nappa clutch so worn out when you drove for like 20-30 minutes and would stop and try to burnout all you would burn would be your clutch lol

but i plan to get it down its all stock 95 camaro z28

I fried my first clutch.. Reason for the beefy version...

If you want it fast... Get used to breaking things...

Having something fail is the best reason to buy something better :D...

lol yea whole reason for me buying this clutch

i had to replace the stock clutch 6 months ago and went with a napa and the stupid mechanic did'nt even turn the flywheel when he installed it such an idiot

but now i got a good one :)

watching everyone around me make money in the web hosting industry

lol

I went from System Administrator, to MIS Manager, to Director of MIS, and, then, took a swing to the side and be came a QA Engineer. Needed a break from flying around the US too much.

Did QA for about 3 1/2 years, and got let go because of a Microsoft Lawsuit that scared Compaq.

All of that supporting OpenVMS, UNIX/Tru64/Linux/solaris, WindowsNT, and an ENTIRE telecommunications system.

NOW, I have my own Hosting business, dialup access, and reseller business. THE FUN NEVER STOPS!!!


Steve

And yeah, OpenVMS still rules. Hands down the best OS I've seen. What I SHOULD be doing is running OpenVMS on my servers with Apache!!! Wouldn't THAT be cool! :cool:

served in the USAF

I worked at a Walmart from 10pm - 7am before I got into web hosting. It was easier stocking shelves I tell ya :D

Originally posted by Marq
I worked at a Walmart from 10pm - 7am before I got into web hosting. It was easier stocking shelves I tell ya :D

Wow, that's funny. I actually STARTED at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) back in 87, as a third shift computer operator. I LOVED working 7pm - 7am Sat/Sun, and then 11pm-7am M/T/W. Very cool hours... :)

Of course, at 37 now, I could NEVER do that anymore... :bawling:


Steve

Programmer for NCR for a while, watched them get consumed, chewed up, and spit out by AT&T, then started doing contract software development for AT&T. If you can't beat em, join em!

Of all corporate CEO's I've ever paid any mind to, Lars Nyberg (current NCR CEO) has got to be one of the best. And Teradata is good stuff.

- Nuclear Submarine Officer
(before that):
- Started search engine (1995) at same time as Yahoo, but said "Where's the money in this?" and dropped it. Doh!

:)

Originally posted by JohnCrowley
- Nuclear Submarine Officer
(before that):
- Started search engine (1995) at same time as Yahoo, but said "Where's the money in this?" and dropped it. Doh!

:)

whats its domain?

and i'm sure it could have been good had you done some major advertising like yahoo, etc..
i dont really see advertising for google but its my fav and the best i think

i used to compose music using scream tracker 3, tried to work my way though the demoscene (www.scene.org). i ended up using the demogroup name for the webhosting company just because that's how things ended up. used to write x86 code a lot and make stupid little games. played in the u.s. army for a little while too. i always enjoyed wasting time inside on the computer, but now i dont even try to find the time to do the things which once made me somewhat normal :-)

Originally posted by zdwebhosting


whats its domain?

and i'm sure it could have been good had you done some major advertising like yahoo, etc..
i dont really see advertising for google but its my fav and the best i think

Used to be www.planetearthinc.com
We let it expire and someone else has it now :(

Back in 1995, advertising was in its infancy, and we were too thickheaded to realize it...

No regrets though :)

John C.

Worked at a Multi Level Marketing company as a system administrator.

Worked in web development industry and still am, designing sites, and programming them as well :D

:cool:

You can't get my fingers off a keyboard.... well if you do there is always audio recognition :D

Web design, web development, writing, consulting, etc.

I owned a free web host then realised it was getting way to overcrowded and banner ratios were going through the floor.

The i moved to paid web hosting.

Hmm... sleeping mostly.

Planned fiber networks for some big cable tv companies and before that C programmer

chronological order:

1. Wildlife Biologist until '92
2. Professional Brewer '92 --> present
3. Sysadmin/partner of hosting company '02 --> present

Regards,

Jeff

Customer ;)

hotel management

artist/singer/webdesigner
& still am, i just added 'host' to the list ;)

Whats USAF?

Originally posted by Jag
served in the USAF

Originally posted by edude
Whats USAF?



I guess United States Air Force.

BTW: USAF - United States Air Force

What I did before Web Hosting?

I dreamed of doing it :)

Nah - Patrol Officer - still have not figured out if hosting is safer than the steets....

I was the President of the United States and a gigolo, though not necessarily in that order.

Star Wars

Hmmmm...

• Park Naturalist
• Park Ranger
• Nanny
• Cop
• Campground Reservationist
• EMT
• Gift Shop Owner

I chose my major in college specifically because it had no computer courses required. Computers scared the crap outta me. You know, that cryptic stuff and wierd codes you type in them... lines of text... made no sense!!!

:blush:

Today at dinner I was secretly pleased to be drilled by this guy who had "no idea" I manage linux servers, and how did I get into that, and what was my training, etc. etc. :rolleyes: It is funny how this little town of mine has no idea my "online life" or the things I've learned/done outside the village's boundaries. I've known this guy for two years now and he had no clue. 'Course I don't wear a "Got Root?" t-shirt or anything -- not that anybody here would get it anyway....