Who does this stuff for a living?

[carbonBased]

Hey everyone,

Been quite a while since I last logged in... been busy with a new house, new job, and a new daughter

I'm curious, though... how many people on this board get to do this sort of thing for a living?

I've been lucky enough to have 2 embedded systems developer jobs. 1 developing embedded middleware for digital cable settops (mostly MIPS and SPARC) (Liberate Technologies, bought by Comcast, renamed to TVWorks, and then destroyed June 25th, 2010), and my new job, at Sandvine, writing embedded code to run inside an ISPs network to inspect and optimize traffic.

It's great to be able to wake up every morning and actually *like* what you do for a living. The only downside is that I rarely have time to work on my own OS.

How about everyone else?

Cheers,
Jeff

[VolTeK]

Congratulations on the child, your a parent now

It would be like getting payed to enjoy life. Working as something you like to do.

[gerryg400]

Who does this stuff for a living?

Not me. I've been working in the software industry for a while now, but never actually write any code. Some days I wish wish were writing software, but usually I'm glad it's just a hobby.

[Solar]

how many people on this board get to do this sort of thing for a living?

Not OS development, but I've worked as Software Engineer for the last 10 years. (C++ code maintenance mostly, but also some genuinely "new" projects.)

It's great to be able to wake up every morning and actually *like* what you do for a living.

Yes, that's great. Unfortunately, it doesn't always happen. Badly written / unreviewed code, budget constraints, and bogus management can make life pretty complicated.

But I am good at this job, and that makes it bearable. Pay is good, too. So I certainly don't complain. Often.

[VolTeK]

Yes, that's great. Unfortunately, it doesn't always happen. Badly written / unreviewed code, budget constraints, and bogus management can make life pretty complicated.

And you would know, lol

[Thomas]

Hi carbonBased,

been busy with a new house, new job, and a new daughter

Congrats!. I work on an executive component of an OS ( memory management basically) . Doing a job you love gives lot of balance to your life. All the best.

--Thomas

[Solar]

Doing a job you love gives lot of balance to your life.

Heh. Can be the other way around, too.

[Combuster]

Does the smartphone software industry count? (spam)

[gerryg400]

Combuster, is Elements Interactive your employer ?

[Candy]

At the moment part of my work is maintaining my own open source project when in the context of the company (which is about 4% of my time). Most of the rest is filled with architecture and low-level debugging. I'd say some 70% of my job is easy for me because of osdev.

[AaronMiller]

I do freelance development work in the video game industry. I also am trying to start my own company. Unfortunately writing an OS does not make me a living... yet

Cheers,
-Aaron

[rdos]

Yes. Currently we are shipping a new chip terminal that uses rdos as the operating system. We have 20 installations out, and it seems to run ok.

I've worked on embedded systems for a little over 10 years, starting out on V25-based systems and now finally making the move to PCs and rdos.

[jal]

I'm development manager at an energy company - don't get to write any code (some queries now and then), although in the past I've done mostly C on Unix. Never did much low-level stuff for work.


JAL