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Poll: What are you doing full-time?

65 pointsby sahalmost 17 years ago

29 comments

iamelgringoalmost 17 years ago
Working as ER nurse: 36 hrs per week<p>Working 20-30 hrs per week on www.nomadnurse.com : Online tools for traveling/contract nurses<p>Right now, it's just a landing page, but my goal is to have a place for travel/contract nurses to review where they've worked, a place to review recruiters/companies, a forum, job postings and tools to help decrease the reams of paperwork that travel nurses have to fill out for every 3 month contract and for every state license they apply for.
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bkovitzalmost 17 years ago
I quit my job six weeks ago. I've had an idea for a web site sitting in the back of my brain for several years now. Amazingly, no one else has done it. I put up an ad on craigslist asking for someone to pair-program with me. We've been pairing 4-5 days a week.<p>We expect to go live next week.<p>I'm scheduled to start a Ph.D. in another six weeks. I could delay. It's a tough choice. Getting my first toe in the entrepreneurial water has been exciting and fulfilling. I'm getting to do things "the way I always wanted to".
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PieSquaredalmost 17 years ago
Yup, I'm still studenting, and have a long way to go. I wonder if all these start-up opportunities and communities will still be around when I finish college...
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cedalmost 17 years ago
Living in cheap asian countries on savings from my grad school year. Trying to develop AI that isn't Good Old Fashionned AI. Learning music. Learning Turkish. Biology. Reading.
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Zakalmost 17 years ago
I'm doing lighting design for a band. We're leaving for Europe in a couple days. I'm also trying to develop the next generation of stage lighting controllers.
ctkrohnalmost 17 years ago
Would also be interesting to see how many people are working in tech vs. other fields. I definitely get the feeling that I'm one of the few people here in a non-computer-related area.
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ssanders82almost 17 years ago
Might want to add consulting / contracting as an option...
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kp212almost 17 years ago
Working as a corporate tool. Got a verbal offer (would need to negotiate my comp) to work with some really bright guys again at a startup. Debating what to do, asking myself why am I debating what to do...
djmalmost 17 years ago
Just quit my office job. I'm going to France in July to spend two months cycling. When I come back I am intending to start a startup (though I still have a few ideas I am trying to decide between). I will probably be working part time as well.
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wumialmost 17 years ago
<i>GMT 3:48</i><p>Even if every person voted 6 times, it's still an average of 4:1 people who voted in the poll to those who upmodded the post.
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watmoughalmost 17 years ago
Working at a regular consulting company.<p>In my weekends, I'm trying to marshall what resources I can to learn other things.<p>Right now, I'm playing with SproutCore, but have been deflected in setting up Django to serve as a back-end, and I'm <i>finally</i> learning some Python, and I'm really impressed with it.
humanleveralmost 17 years ago
I'm interning at Sun, volunteering with Miro, and taking summer classes.<p>I'll be getting my BS after a little over two years in school and as one of those “big picture” people, have become increasingly more focused on what I'm going to do once December rolls around.
keefealmost 17 years ago
Working on scalability of an RDF server at an established semantic web company. Enjoying going to moffet field every day. Not enjoying lack of free time as I finish prototypes of my own project.
coglethorpealmost 17 years ago
Had to click three things.
eyudkowskyalmost 17 years ago
Founding a nonprofit.
kajecounterhackalmost 17 years ago
High school, part time hacker for a couple OSS projects<p>That leaves me a striking question: How many other readers here are high schoolers like me?
brandonkmalmost 17 years ago
Being a musician?
twismalmost 17 years ago
this is a very interesting poll. I have always wanted to know what the hacker news community constitutes.
lyimealmost 17 years ago
FULL TIME = 70% School + 30% Startup
ampradhanalmost 17 years ago
Fulltime sales engineering job, hacking and consulting gigs on the side for my own startup...
Mistonealmost 17 years ago
i'm working a a big behemoth web security company 40-50 hrs. per week - and working on my startup 20 hours per week - and raising my family (2yr old + 1 on the way) with my wife. our startup is set to launch in August - so its a big push right now.
ScottWhighamalmost 17 years ago
If you founded a startup and are working on that startup, what option should you choose? :)
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tomh-almost 17 years ago
What if you work at a startup, founded a startup and go to school? :)
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wdalmost 17 years ago
Hardware engineer at a day job. Software hack wannabe by night.
FiReaNG3Lalmost 17 years ago
Lets see, PhD in AIDS research, founding 2 startups
amitryalmost 17 years ago
Taking over the world (Pinky and the Brain).
ujjalmost 17 years ago
working on a day job at an established company to pay for me and my two buddies working full time on a startup.
pxlpshralmost 17 years ago
working @ a startup, consulting, and lending a hand at establishing a better startup environment in Austin.
mannylee1almost 17 years ago
Working at a Startup