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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: -sudz- on June 02, 2003, 10:13:04 AM
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I'm bored with working to make everyone's wallet fatter. There's gotta be a job out there for a programmer who wants to contribute to the betterment of humanity and the environment but I can't find it.
I know the idea is probably sophomoric, but if there's anyone out there with a line on a meaningful job for a coder with skillz, or for any other position, please clue me in. I work cheap, too.
-sudz
PS I know you're probably thinking that if I go back into male stripping humanity will rejoice and the birds and the beasts of the field would celebrate, but I just can't handle being a piece of meat again :)
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Browse the web for missing children websites, if you can program something that can speed up the way a quasi online "amber alert" is spread, it'd certainly qualify as a job with meaning.
If not, develop a way to nuke back the SPAM and PopUp originators. Your children's children will hold you a hero :D
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Do you have security clearances?
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You should start your own brewery dude. I volunteer to be your taste tester.
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Why not just donate some programming time to a non-profit organization as a gift to humanity and keep the job you've got?
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Thanks for your replies so far, gents . . .
Lance: Too late, I'm already jobless :) I've got lots of options but nothing I really have a feel for.
Syz: I don't have security clearance but, even though I'm completely patriotic, my youthful indiscretions would probably disqualify me.
Raub: I actually looked into starting my own brewery but the startup costs and government regulations put me off.
OIO: A two-parter, eh? First, the amber alert system would be greatly enhanced if ISPs sent an automatic email upon receipt of a valid alert - unfortunately out of my hands. Secondly, spammers are like hackers - as soon as you devise a defense the F**king marketeers are there with a new in.
I know I'll probably end up just working to survive like 99% of the humans on this world. But it's worth a shot if someone out there can clue me in.
C'mon . . . Professional bachelor's degree, minor in math, brews his own beer . . .
- sudz
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Can you code an trojan for me? :D
Cant pay that much :D
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Damn Sudz....looks like we hit the unemployment line together, eh? It sucks.
I hope you find something that you like soon. But in the meantime, you got any beer to sample? :)
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Originally posted by -sudz-
OIO: spammers are like hackers - as soon as you devise a defense the F**king marketeers are there with a new in.
- sudz [/B]
Sounds like a job with a future. If you build the perfect defense, you would soon go out of buisness. :)
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sudz there is only one job with meaning:
semantician.
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I dont literally mean to use the internet for the job.
There's a huge amount of agencies and institutions that dedicate themselves to finding these kids. Unfortunately they dont usually work together or find it hard to work together because they all use different methods and stuff.
If you're a programmer, maybe you could make some kind of software that would allow them to share resources and knowledge. Dunno, im just giving ideas, but if you could do something like that, I can't think of any job with more meaning than that.
:)
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be a garbage collector or work at a wastewater treatment plant.
lazs
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work a month at a slaughter house - heard turn over is high
after that - ANY job will be "rewarding" :)
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I taught special ed for 5 years...
I figure I don't even need to give to charities anymore. I've done my time. It was very rewarding and I'm glad I did it, but I got very tired of being dirt poor. Do something like that while you're still young and stupid.
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I don't know if the question is genuine, but here's an answer.
Right now, a good programmer can find extremely interesting positions in genetics.
A friend of mine did his final project at the university (Telecom Engineering) helping design a program that could simulate, via imaginary numbers, the resulting proteins from gene combinations.
While it would seem you need a career in biology, the problem is that of a mathematical nature with loads and loads of programming.
I think you could find that very interesting and fulfilling. After all, it can bring the solution to illnesses such as Cancer...
Daniel
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You should look into the Superhero field.
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Maslow had a theory where the human psych by roughly age 30 give or take 5 years, needs to basically "Have kids or save the whales"...basically leave an imprint on earth for our own basic higher-realization of self esteem needs on the top block of our "pyramid". I believe this is what Sudz is probably going thru. I'd suggest starting your own Microbrew beer business, being successful in it, marrying and having kids. :)
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pornstar!
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Maniac: I've already coded a trojan - it's a program that shows slides of naked grandmothers. Works better than any rubber :)
Sling: I actually like being unemployed - it fits my Jimmy Buffet state of mind. I'll admit, though, it's sometimes boring but that's why I want to work on something to advance the cause of man. I envision a day where education will be advanced enough that a person can go to a bulletin board, pick an interesting subject, become an expert, and join a team working on a project that suits your taste at any given time.
rmp: To accomplish a bullet-proof anti-spammer, I would have to code up an Overlord program. Much like the villian program in Tron.
bounder: LOL. Unfortunately, semantician turns out to be a made-up word (look it up :))
OIO: That one sounds good. I didn't know they were in such a chaotic state. I'll look into it to see if they need me but I already have a internet based DB lookup solution in mind.
laz: Although facile, you're idea has merit in a roundabout way. How about a program that helps monitor and control environmentally friendly waste treatment systems?
Eagler: Working in a corporate IT department is like a slaughterhouse. They're called code reviews :)
midnight: I'm not adverse to being poor. As long as I've got beer money and friends, that is. There's a long drawn out rationale for that attitude so I won't write it out, but trust me, it's a complex as most Master's thesis.
Raub: I was a superhero - The Cat Lord. With only the power of my mind, I could stare at a cat and make him nap - eventually. However, the other members of the Justice League were jealous of my power and kicked me out (damn Aquaman!). One day, they shall feel my wrath :)
Rip: Interesting theory, and probably applicable in a limited way. I think it's more accurate to say that every person constantly wants to make an imprint on earth. It's just that 99% of the time, when someone sets out to acheive this goal, it ends up not being what they envisioned and probably more work than they enjoy. They soon stop wanting to imprint and relax into a more casual lifestyle, calling themselves wise for discovering the man behind the curtain is a taskmaster. I would say the profile you outline certainly fits my situation, but asking me to marry and have kids! Man, what did I ever do to you! :)
This has given me some ideas though . . .
Thank you everyone
-sudz
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ever think of coding silly little programs that almost anyone with a bit of knowledge can use and selling them at high prices to parents...things like these
1. a little program that automaticly logs a user off the computer after a preset number of minutes (or hours)
2. a little program that detects when someone accesses a pornographic site and logs the pictures and who accesed them
...then gives it to the parents...
things like that
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Well, whatever you do, stay the hell away from the lawyer-profession.
My suggestion: Teacher.
(Im honestly thinking about that one myself...although it would be kinda hard to explain the career switch from lawyer to history teacher)
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Couldn't resist...
http://www.mcdonalds.com/corporate/careers/index.html
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Originally posted by -sudz-
I would say the profile you outline certainly fits my situation, but asking me to marry and have kids! Man, what did I ever do to you! :)
Thank you everyone
-sudz
Only gave 1 beer at the cons.... It takes 6 to make me happy. :D
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I got a feeling I bit the bait...
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Originally posted by vorticon
ever think of coding silly little programs that almost anyone with a bit of knowledge can use and selling them at high prices to parents...things like these
1. a little program that automaticly logs a user off the computer after a preset number of minutes (or hours)
2. a little program that detects when someone accesses a pornographic site and logs the pictures and who accesed them
...then gives it to the parents...
things like that
God do that and you may never see me online again!
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I just got laid off from within the IT field too. No one in hiring in California it seems. My plan is to get a warehousing job with a certain stable company. This company always hires from within. My goal is to work the 90 days required then apply for a quality IT position. Applying online is hopeless, its you vs 10,000 others.
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porn site???? that has meaning to me :)
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Originally posted by Hawklore
God do that and you may never see me online again!
and thats why parents will love it...
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My friend went out to California to try and make it in the Porn Business (a guy). I'm serious. Really. He was serious about it. So - they told him they wanted him to work a while in the gay films before given a chance for the normal ones. I'm serious. He went home.
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Be a paramedic!
I work 72 on, 96 off. I get spit on, kicked, punched. puked on. People urinate and deficate on my gurney. Others try to steal the narcotics I have signed out in my name, and most of the time I pick up people that are killing themselves (although rather slowly) with drugs and booze. I am a mid level manager in charge of dealing with all the Safety, cal osha, and workers comp. And I get paid $13/hr. But you know what, I love my job and wouldn't do any thing else.
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Originally posted by -sudz-
I'm bored with working to make everyone's wallet fatter. There's gotta be a job out there for a programmer who wants to contribute to the betterment of humanity and the environment but I can't find it.
-sudz
O to be young and idealistic again! Soon though, when you mature a bit, you'll be more intrested in "betterment of your bank account" than "betterment of humanity." Sorry, but you can't have both, and the sooner you realise that the sooner you'll trade in your idealism for a BMW. Humanity sucks.
Get into sales. And if you're single and able to travel get into medical sales. There's a ton of money in it, and if you hustle and backstab, sleep or sneak your way up the ladder of success you'll be rolling in dough.
You'll be thanking me in twenty years if you take my advice.
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Sudz, you might try www.opportunitynocs.org (http://www.opportunitynocs.org/index.jsp).