Non-industry employment thread!

twiz · January 18, 2011 at 8:36 PM

Since I don't qualify for the stickied employment thread (non-industry), I made my own :derp:

Just got a job in San Antonio for a company that does non-destructive examination of nuclear reactor vessels! My college friend has been working there for 6 months and got me the job. We are two thirds of the mechanical design team, and the only two mechanical engineers.. So our job is to design robots that inspect welds in nuclear reactors for cracks.

Unfortunately, NDAs prevent me from sharing any CAD/modeling stuff on here (or really anything more than what I said already) But its cool. At least I think so!

I get to see the inside of a nuclear reactor for the first time in march

I know there's a lot of gaming industry in the san antonio/austin/houston area, someday we should do a mapcore texas meet-up!

Anyways, I am just excited and wanted to share. Carry on.

Skjalg · January 18, 2011 at 8:41 PM

Congrats on the job, it sounds interesting

Maybe us non-industry people should start our own "Where we work"-thread

edit;

I work at Kongsberg Protech, dealing with the software for the Kongsberg Protector (Remote Weapon Station)

[Blocked Image: http://www.norwatch.no/images/stories/NW_fotografier/Vaapen/kongsberg_protector_220.jpg]

Serenius · January 18, 2011 at 9:02 PM

Grats, dude! San Antonio is a nice city, and is close to Austin (the most awesome city in Texas).

I work for an online travel agency and handle the hotel relationships in that area, so let me know if you ever need help getting a room.

Sentura · January 18, 2011 at 9:08 PM

skjalg what language is used in general for those type machines?

Nysuatro · January 18, 2011 at 9:10 PM

Ow! Interesting topic.

Congratz Twiz. Sounds like a dangerous job working near the nuclear reactor.

Skjalg · January 18, 2011 at 10:39 PM

Quote from Sentura

skjalg what language is used in general for those type machines?

mostly c, but we're slowly starting to use c++ -> compiling to a real time operating system called VxWorks.

We're basically making this thing:

[Blocked Image: http://www.fofo.no/filestore/Protector_002.jpg]

twiz · January 18, 2011 at 10:53 PM

Ahh that's bad ass Skjalg! Edited thread title too

And it isn't terribly dangerous, they're pretty vigilant about safety inside nuclear power stations!

KungFuSquirrel · January 18, 2011 at 11:14 PM

Quote from twiz

I know there's a lot of gaming industry in the san antonio/austin/houston area, someday we should do a mapcore texas meet-up!

I support this, if we have enough Texans here to pull it off.

Serenius · January 18, 2011 at 11:20 PM

In.

Sentura · January 19, 2011 at 12:18 AM

Quote from Skjalg

mostly c, but we're slowly starting to use c++ -> compiling to a real time operating system called VxWorks.
We're basically making this thing:
[Blocked Image: http://www.fofo.no/filestore/Protector_002.jpg]

pointer hell!

twiz · January 19, 2011 at 8:07 AM

Well according to the industry employment thread, there's probably another 8-10 mapcorians in the area!

hessi · January 19, 2011 at 10:46 AM

i work for a software developer in bonn (former capital city of west-germany). we make mostly web-applications in java for germanys biggest telecommunication enterprise.

btw my work history is as follows:

2005 game graphics

2008 game graphics

2009 mobile applications

2010 teaching at the uni (limited time contract)

2010 web applications

Nysuatro · January 19, 2011 at 11:14 AM

Why the change to web applications if I may ask?

Skjalg · January 19, 2011 at 12:18 PM

which ide do you use at work hessi for java?

hessi · January 19, 2011 at 1:25 PM

why change to web applications:

i work on enterprise web applications -> much more well paid than mobile applications or games. of course money isn't everything and you could say "it's not as much fun as games", but that is not true. it can get pretty funny, if you take a look at legacy code so i get more money and i have the same amount of fun. win.

which IDE:

i use eclipse with several plugins. jboss tools, svn plugin, mylyn for integration with the ticket system...

the development process is also supported by maven (serious: who works without it when working with java code?)

⌐■_■ · January 19, 2011 at 1:38 PM

Quote from Skjalg

Congrats on the job, it sounds interesting Maybe us non-industry people should start our own "Where we work"-thread
edit;
I work at Kongsberg Protech, dealing with the software for the Kongsberg Protector (Remote Weapon Station)
[Blocked Image: http://www.norwatch.no/images/stories/NW_fotografier/Vaapen/kongsberg_protector_220.jpg]

THAT.

-HP- · January 19, 2011 at 1:48 PM

So when mapcore is not making games for a living, it's making high-tech killing machines with the press of a button! ;D

Thrik · January 19, 2011 at 2:30 PM

Skjalg wins the 'Best Job of MapCore' award designing remote-powered sentries, however twiz is surely a close runner-up being deeply involved with the US nuclear program.

I have a similarly exciting job, being a web designer/front-end developer for some Nottinghamshire web design agency. ..............

dux · January 19, 2011 at 3:50 PM

Quote from Thrik

..............

I don't know why that made me laugh so much. I blame the sad smiley.

twiz · January 19, 2011 at 4:08 PM

Not just the US, we've got a job coming up in korea

But I agree, remote control sentry gun robot > remote control reactor scanner robot

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