Poll: What are you doing full-time?

[iamelgringo]

Working as ER nurse: 36 hrs per week

Working 20-30 hrs per week on www.nomadnurse.com : Online tools for traveling/contract nurses

Right now, it's just a landing page, but my goal is to have a place for travel/contract nurses to review where they've worked, a place to review recruiters/companies, a forum, job postings and tools to help decrease the reams of paperwork that travel nurses have to fill out for every 3 month contract and for every state license they apply for.

[michaelneale]

Well I just spent a weekend waiting around ER rooms as my daughter had half a tooth nocked out (and sedation needed, some minor surgery).

I do not envy your job. Whilst I can assume that there is a large element of satisfaction (and it doesn't seem to be as hellish as they make out in movies) it can't be easy. Its just more bad news and frustrated smelly people all the time. Never ending.

I tip my hat to you.

[bkovitz]

I quit my job six weeks ago. I've had an idea for a web site sitting in the back of my brain for several years now. Amazingly, no one else has done it. I put up an ad on craigslist asking for someone to pair-program with me. We've been pairing 4-5 days a week.

We expect to go live next week.

I'm scheduled to start a Ph.D. in another six weeks. I could delay. It's a tough choice. Getting my first toe in the entrepreneurial water has been exciting and fulfilling. I'm getting to do things "the way I always wanted to".

[timr]

If you want to be an entrepreneur, and you don't need a PhD to do it (e.g. you aren't starting a biotech company), then for the love of all that is holy, don't start a PhD program. Quitting is like gnawing off your own leg.

The PhD program will be there later. Trust me.

[PieSquared]

Yup, I'm still studenting, and have a long way to go. I wonder if all these start-up opportunities and communities will still be around when I finish college...

[fallentimes]

Based on the direction markets and firms are heading (lower startup costs, computers becoming commoditized, smaller firms being able to compete easier with large firms), there will be even more opportunities.

[symptic]

Basecamp was made in 37signals' part time. If you have an idea or the willpower, you don't have to wait to graduate from college.

[ced]

Living in cheap asian countries on savings from my grad school year. Trying to develop AI that isn't Good Old Fashionned AI. Learning music. Learning Turkish. Biology. Reading.

[neilc]

That's very cool -- I've often considered doing that (moving to a cheap Asian country). I'd be curious if you have any more advice about it -- which countries were good, what sort of places to stay in, etc.

[Zak]

I'm doing lighting design for a band. We're leaving for Europe in a couple days. I'm also trying to develop the next generation of stage lighting controllers.

[ctkrohn]

Would also be interesting to see how many people are working in tech vs. other fields. I definitely get the feeling that I'm one of the few people here in a non-computer-related area.

[michaelneale]

Yeah it is always surprising when people describe their day job (when it isn't tech).

[dkokelley]

I work at a bank as a teller, but it's only part time and I'm also in school.

[ssanders82]

Might want to add consulting / contracting as an option...

[sah]

Good call. Done.

[kp212]

Working as a corporate tool. Got a verbal offer (would need to negotiate my comp) to work with some really bright guys again at a startup. Debating what to do, asking myself why am I debating what to do...

[djm]

Just quit my office job. I'm going to France in July to spend two months cycling. When I come back I am intending to start a startup (though I still have a few ideas I am trying to decide between). I will probably be working part time as well.

[jodrellblank]

Good luck with that. I daydream of a similar path (though Spain/Portugal rather than France).

[wumi]

GMT 3:48

Even if every person voted 6 times, it's still an average of 4:1 people who voted in the poll to those who upmodded the post.

[ComputerGuru]

People upvote if they liked the story, and they vote just to share.

[watmough]

Working at a regular consulting company.

In my weekends, I'm trying to marshall what resources I can to learn other things.

Right now, I'm playing with SproutCore, but have been deflected in setting up Django to serve as a back-end, and I'm finally learning some Python, and I'm really impressed with it.

[humanlever]

I'm interning at Sun, volunteering with Miro, and taking summer classes.

I'll be getting my BS after a little over two years in school and as one of those “big picture” people, have become increasingly more focused on what I'm going to do once December rolls around.

[keefe]

Working on scalability of an RDF server at an established semantic web company. Enjoying going to moffet field every day. Not enjoying lack of free time as I finish prototypes of my own project.

[coglethorpe]

Had to click three things.

[eyudkowsky]

Founding a nonprofit.

[kajecounterhack]

High school, part time hacker for a couple OSS projects

That leaves me a striking question: How many other readers here are high schoolers like me?

[brandonkm]

Being a musician?

[twism]

this is a very interesting poll. I have always wanted to know what the hacker news community constitutes.

[lyime]

FULL TIME = 70% School + 30% Startup

[ampradhan]

Fulltime sales engineering job, hacking and consulting gigs on the side for my own startup...