I'm an IT Contractor - currently doing an OS/390 consultancy role for EDS.

Unfortunately with IR35 and all the cutbacks I'm about to be booted out of my current contract - and there's 74% un-employment in the IT-contracting market of the northwest....:eek: :eek: :eek:

How am I going to continue to live my playboy lifestyle?

:(

A right handed account director for an advertising agency. I spend my time making sure my clients are happy and dreaming about going flying!!!!

Self employed commercial finance broker specialising in investment property finance... BUT used to be in IT! Wife still is an IT marketing type.

Right handed with no artistic ability whatsoever.

Interesting how people think flying is so expensive. My annual budget is about £1800 which pays for the monthly group contribution and about 20 hours flying, pretty typical for a qualified PPL I guess. Now, imagine you smoke 1 pack of fags a day....... I' told the average price is £4.20 - £1533 pa! I don' smoke and rarely drink. Maybe when people think we are "rolling in it" we should point out some comparisons.

Barrister - but that doesn't make me a bad person.:)

I am a Medical Photographer working in a General Hospital for the NHS. Been doing it for over 20 years now and have finally got to a salary level where I can afford to pay for my flying lessons:p :p

I do spend a great deal of time in from of a Mac though! Does that qualify me as an IT person?

Right handed by the way.

Dentist, right handed.

"Management Information Manager".

Which essentially means I have to make head or tail out of the gigabytes of data we produce every day and report on the company performance - everything from last week's sales to how much time one of our Customer Service Advisors spends on coffee breaks...

I work with lots of IT, but I'm not really in IT (not that techy!).

Like many here I work in IT - Software Engineering, quite possibly on the same project as RotorHorn?

Unlike many here I do not earn pots of cash (not a contractor). I am also not a geek - kind of fell into this job, rather than drawn into it through any particular interest, but hey it pays the bills and keeps me flying.

Plotting my escape to the airlines at the moment with the help of Bristol Groundschool. I wont hold my breath in the short term.

Air traffiker who is about to sack his accountant for charging too much.

PS Before you go, can I put flying hours down as a business expense?

I'm a Barrister. I may be a bad person, but that's coincidental

To be different, I work in a police control room answering 999 calls and talking on police radios.

Had my PPL (A) for two years now.

Hypnotherapist. never had anything to do with IT, but a surprising number of clients have.

T.

Barrister, sometimes a bad person

Blimey, next time you need a barrister, don't bother troubling your solicitor, just come here!!

As for me, never really considered myself IT, more of a financial research bod. Heard my boss calling me a programmer the other day though, so perhaps I'm trying to disillusion myself.

I work in aviation paradise: at an aeroplane Museum where we fly lots of interesting old planes and hold the world's biggest and best air show every year.

Thinking of taking up IT as a hobby...

Business Systems consultant working with customers on setting their business practices/systems in place with new Enterprise Management Systems - so, in IT, sort of.

Well I used to be in IT - for 14 years, large airline, many other large international corporations/many countries. No current employment in IT = no more flying, classic cars and even house. Very, very sad.

Still, CISCO just posted some good profits even if they were mainly made from cost-cutting exercises. There is light at the end of the tunnel if only I could find those course notes .... oh, and I did get invited for an interview for CS at LHR following a sheer desperation application back in March !!

Right-handed Consultant Marine Surveyor, specialising in oil & petrochemical shipments.

Currently on a 2 month assignment to Singapore, and will be flying Singapore Flying club's TB10 around southern Malaysia this weekend:) :)

Right-handed project director for the french subsidiaries of a bit multinational.

Just to clarify, I am not a barrister, but I am sometimes a bad person.