What do I do? Well, right now I work for a little company called Sedona GeoServices, or SGS. They, in turn are a subsidary of another company, which isn't so little, called ScanGraphics, Inc. Mostly I write programs for Suns, well, in fact that's pretty much all that I do. I own some of their stock. It's not worth very much. Especially since most of it is warrants that I can't cash in until some unspecified time anyways.
I used to work for Lock*Mart, Your Software Warehouse. Of course, that's not what they call themselves, but what the hell. They have a second home page here. Why do they have two? Who knows. They probably have several more in addition, but nobody really knows where they are (just to prove the correctness of that statement, I just found a third home page.)
Lastly, my Mom works for a place called the Christian Activities Council in Hartford, CT, helping people find housing who can't afford it. They do some neat stuff, and let me work on their network on occasion (I use the term loosely; two computers connected by a crossover 10Base-T cable ain't exactly the NSFNET), though recently they bought a 5-port hub, looking to expand the office, and put themselves on the net. Pretty soon they'll even have their own domain, it looks like, though someone already snagged cac.org.
Working definitely has its benefits. Money is the main one. I've found that work is a lot like college, except that you can leave it at work when you go home. I used to work at home, which made it a bit sticky, but I also got free net access at home so it was worth it. Nowadays, I have my very own office with a dedicated ISDN connection. And soon I'll have my house permanently wired to the office, which will give me full-time ISDN at home too.
And I can still have a beer at lunchtime without leaving the office, since I have a fridge which usually is well stocked with Sam Adams.
Another benefit of work is you get to go to meetings. I went to lots of them when I worked for Lock*Mart. Lest you think I got out of meetings by working 260 miles from my boss, I'll have you know that he bought a fancy conference phone specifically so I could attend his 11 minute meetings. I've seen it; it looks kind of like the station from Star Trek: Deep Space 9 without the big fins on it. Or maybe like a mutant starfish.
Even now I get pulled into my share of meetings, though usually only once a week or so. The advantage of being conferenced in as opposed to actually dragged into the room is that I can continue to do real work while the rest of the poor sods have to sit around the table talking to each other and the weird looking phone. I try not to type too loud; I wouldn't want them to get jealous.
Of course, working for a software company has its drawbacks. This was more relevant when I worked at Lock*Mart, but it's beginning to be more relevant at Sedona, as the place just keeps growing and growing...