[Jacques]

My friend flies around in a little Cessna, going from reserve to reserve working for KZN wildlife building designing hides and shelters. He loves it, says he'd happily retrain to pilot around the place. At least he's not stuck in an office all the time.

I simply wouldn't be able to survive working in an office at all, form me work is sitting in a crew room, drinking coffee (Talking Shite with my fellow colleagues) and flying!

Bliss! My 7.5 hours a day are spent in an office with no opening windows, with a 1:30 commute morning and night :(  At least I go through some lovely countryside for 3/4 of my journey.

[Irinikus]

Bliss! My 7.5 hours a day are spent in an office with no opening windows, with a 1:30 commute morning and night :(  At least I go through some lovely countryside for 3/4 of my journey.

It's not heaven on earth though, because as nice as it might be to fly, it doesn't satisfy your creative side, and that's a bit of a problem! (I know of quite a few other pilots who suffer from this problem.)

At least in your line of work, you get to make use of your creative side!

Let's face it, people seem to be happiest when they create!

[jirka]

I'm university teacher at civil engineering.

[mamorim01]

Mechanical engineer here. I was introduced to an Indigo2 Impact back when I was a student, they had set it up with copies of Mathematica and Maple if memory serves. Fitted with one of those huge granite monitors, the thing stood up from the rest of beige boxes in the lab.

I am sadly not using SGI gear for work related stuff, although I wish I could. Most of the software packages I use are based on Windows, and reliability remains an issue. As of late, some open source packages developed mainly with Linux in mind are making big headway. Packages such as code_aster, a Python based numerical simulation software for structural analysis developed by edf (Électricité de France) or Calculix, or OpenFOAM, to name but a few. Most of these should run fairly well under IRIX, provided enough memory was available. Another package which I have found surprisinly pleasant and comparable to commercial alternatives is FreeCad, a 3D parametric modelling package (think Wildfire/ProEngineer) also acting as a frontend to a good number of numerical analysis solvers. This would be a fantastic product if it could be ported to IRIX.

I guess it is good enough that an alternative exists to slowly move away from Windows but it would be terrific to be able to run this type of applications under IRIX. Oh well...

[Raion]

I work currently as a Compliance officer for a webhosting company. I will probably be soon moving to their infrastructure team as that's my background and my preferred work area in tech. Currently my primary duties are to deal with resource abuse customers, phishing, hacks and DMCA/harassment complaints (I get more f-ing Voyeur sites by the day it seems where people stalk each other. It's sick.) as well as act as a relief database worker when needed, as I'm one of the few staff on hand with extensive MariaDB experience

[BackPlaner]

Great to read everybody's story on here. 
As I mentioned elsewhere on another thread, I've worked in the visual effects industry for 25+ years as a animator and animation supervisor, on many many films and commercials and some VR projects as well over the years. Lately I've taken a step into Academia as a form of semi-retirement, teaching 3D classes at a local University. I love animation, but as I'm fond of telling my students, the worst day in Academia is better than the best day in production; no clueless directors, no clients complaining, no ridiculous overages, no long days and nights, and no weekend work. Every day I try to think of something to make me grateful and it's not like I have to look far.
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[swarmik]

I work with former-SGI guys who started Czech SGI offices in the early 90s. My job role is called "technology architect" and my focus is mostly high-performance clusters, supercomputers and GPU-accelerated virtualized desktops.

[netfreak]

I'm a sysadmin for a cloud/ISP type company. I mostly specialize in VMware, Cisco compute and networking. Worked with various hardware over the years but mostly IBM and some HP, nothing to do with SGI at all. Only SGI stuff we had in our facility was a client's render farm some years ago and obviously it wasn't older MIPS stuff...

[Intuition]

Visual Effects, CGI, Generalist/Technical Director. Since 1995.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/casey-benn-3191b578/

Currently developing a Maya/Redshift Pipeline for a client in Santa Monica. Surprisingly Redshift 3D does not include a Maya Shelf standard so I am creating one that I will probably release with to the devs in case they want to package it with the renderer. I also have developed a custom marking menu for better integration in Maya since I am a marking menu junkie.

Though my marking menus are scripted in MEL instead of Python since maya marking menus seem not to use Python correctly. I will eventually convert my MEL for the shelf into Python.

No matter where I work there are always older people that can discuss the SGI era and often do with a fondness for the innovation whilst happily stating that nothing costs that much anymore.

[matyas]

After spending a number of years as an audio engineer, I recently started a new job administering robots. No IRIX, but the robots run Linux and are built on ROS (ros.org) and Python, so at least I'm in the Unix world.