Me -  Stock Market Trader & Investor

love what i do, its a bit challenging & stressful but that's one of the reasons i love it

What do you like most about your job?

Do you love your Job?

What are your future plans, same job or changing course?

I wear 2 hats for a living.

Main track IT professional.
Second track, I'm an Executive in Labour focused on Pension and Benefits.

I am a Machine Learning Engineer for a somewhat large health-care company. Basically I build predictive and casual models to extract insights and then build analytical applications that share the results of these models with stakeholders (usually using Plotly Dash and PowerBI, depending on the nature of the model.) Sometimes I do my own data-engineering too. 

Not sure if I should even bother posting, considering OP got himself temp banned lol, but what the hell.

I work in network engineering for a small municipal finance company. Started out at this company doing traditional day-to-day IT support, but considering it's only 3 of us total in IT and my boss had a seizure in his office one day, the company decided to get me to be more at his level on a technical level, so studied for my CCNA followed by my CCNP, and it was quite the life changer. It's pretty fun stuff. I remember thinking that the fundamentals of networking really haven't changed much since the 90s lol. Cisco especially with the way they handle their hardware.

I stress out professionally

I bag people's groceries, clear the parking lot of carts, sweep the store, clean and stock the restrooms, put away returned, damaged, and out-of-date items, clean up spills and messes, level the ice machine, do odd jobs my bosses want me to do on any given day, and most importantly spend the bulk of the day spacing out in my own little world. In other words, my job is a mindless routine that scarcely even requires my mental presence and I'm happy about that part of it. I wish it paid a lot better, but my wife has a better job that makes up the difference, so it works out. My job is just supplemental.

I started a nonprofit in my area to pick up litter back in 2016. In 2021 the furniture store I managed was shuttered, but thankfully the nonprofit started doing decent so I’ve been doing that since then. It’s tough work and I’m the sole employee so there’s a lot on my shoulders, but I enjoy it. I just wish there wasn’t so much litter everywhere.

Security. Training to become a 3D Generalist (hopefully only another couple years).

I didn't know you got married! Is this the same girl I recommended you play It Takes Two with?

IT Infrastructure and Security

I create accounts/disable users, create email distribution groups, give them their permissions for what they need access to on the company's network, make sure no one compromises their computer/email/phone, deal with MFA and SSO, I also maintain the desk phone system for the company and the direct contact with our cellphone provider and network printer provider.

I got two guys who who set up equipment and I maintain the list of the equipment they set up for the Director , VP of IT and the company's CFO for the company's financial records for the fiscal year.

I work with the Network Admin and his assistant in terms of stuff like VPN access, Microsoft Azure, Email monitoring, firewall blocking sites/access, etc

I work with my supervisor to make sure we have inventory and report everything in our double (mon and wed) weekly meetings.

There's 14 people in our IT group but only 5 who directly works with Infrastructure and security (including me). The rest are application/software crew or the cable crew and the VP and director.

Company has over 1,500 employees and multiple branches/offices in the US and Canada.

Been with the company for 8 years - been promoted twice. I could go somewhere else and make more money with my skills and experience but my wife's hospital where she works is near where I work so our commuting time is better (using one car).

Also the company's very lax on letting me choose my schedule, work from home and off days - helped a lot when my wife was pregnant and all , when I needed to be at home for maintenance and when my dad passed away.

After I take care of some stuff this year - going to focus on getting certificates and study up material on stuff like Networking and Cybersecurity.

Edit: Plenty of OT - helps especially since my wife works 12 hours a day so about the time I finish up, she's done with her work too.

I am a programmer. Do I love it? It is what I want to do. I went close to burn-out in the past years, I lost all motivation and happiness. But I got out of it, by reminding myself how I learned programming and how I had fun with it and now I do and learn more with coding outside my job (yes, beating burn-out by doing more) and win back satisfaction over the creative parts of the work (something that is hard to do if someone else sets the goals).