Non-industry employment thread!

[twiz]

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]

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)

[Serenius]

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]

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

[Nysuatro]

Ow! Interesting topic.

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

[Skjalg]

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:

[twiz]

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]

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]

In.

[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:

pointer hell!

[twiz]

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

[hessi]

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]

Why the change to web applications if I may ask?

[Skjalg]

which ide do you use at work hessi for java?

[hessi]

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?)