Year 2k I was an engineer director of a group in charge of developing and maintaining a cross platform game engine. It ran on Xbox, PS2, Gamecube and many more systems as they came online.
Currently I’m an entrepreneur that owns pieces of multiple companies. I also advise on both business and technology for several companies and also am an angel investor. I still keep my hands dirty doing actual work on products as well. I primarily work from home although I do have an office with dozens of employees.
Subtle changes that would probably only matter to another librarian. In 2000, I had my MLIS but was, job-title-wise, tech support who just happened to spend a lot of time on the reference desk. Became a “real” librarian in 2001. In 2014, I became a cataloger.
You could just about be a programmer for our company. We are using two different flavors of Angular, dotNetCore, C#, and we just got rid of silverlight. And we have a whole group that works remotely, so you could be one of those guys!
It’s good to know that I’m marketable I just recently delved into Angular, starting with 5, and the fact that it’s so new and 3 & 4 were so different makes learning about 5 via search engine a nightmare.
In 2000, I was working three jobs: selling machineguns and tactical gear; managing a gun range, and working as a substitute teacher. I had only an associates degree which I obtained from a combination of local university and the community college. None of the classes were online. In English 101, we had to make a simple web page using html.
In 2019, I am near the end of my career. I only intended to join the Army for as long as the war lasted–which I figured would be a couple years, max. Sixteen years later, here I am. I have a Master’s degree now, thanks to distance learning and online education. I finished my undergrad and then completed my graduate degree, all online. In 2000, I don’t think any accredited universities were offering classes online–certainly not an entire curriculum. I’m looking at post graduate study at University of North Dakota, and they offer the entire program online with no on-campus matriculation necessary.
The internet hasn’t just changed how we work, it’s completely changed how we communicate at work. What used to take the Army hours of telephone calls and alert rosters, can now be done instantly with a single What’sAPP message. That’s not necessarily a good thing, though. And don’t even get me started on emails. Ugh…
I was a Medical Technologist in 2000 and I still am now, albeit in a different hospital lab. Automation has improved a lot in the intervening period significantly widening the range of testing we do but I still spend my days playing with blood, body fluids, and recalcitrant instrumentation. And avoiding really annoying coworkers.
At the beginning of 2000, I made a career change, moving from a food manufacturing company (where I was a market researcher) to an ad agency, where I became a strategist, while still doing a little bit of market research as well.
Now, I work at a (different) ad agency, where I’m a strategist, while still doing a little bit of market research.
What’s changed about the job in the past 19 years is how prevalent the digital space is in advertising, and how much more access we have to research data, and information on societal trends.
Realized I was never going to get to know my kids if I kept working 60-80 hours a week. So I quit working in advertising and finally got my dream job teaching.
I’ve been earning a living doing lighting for well over 3 decades, so no change for me. I work with and for a lot of different people compared to 19 years ago (a few old friends are still around, thankfully), and a lot of the equipment has changed (and changed a lot), but it’s all still about pumping photons.
I was an aerospace structural engineer for the Navy in Y2K. I retired in 2011. Since then, I’ve had a few temp gigs, but now I’m working as a mechanical drafter for a company that builds flight and maintenance trainers for various military organizations. I’ll be re-retiring at the end of this year - maybe for good this time.
In 2000 I was a jack-of-all-trades civil engineer for a start-up company that manufactured pollution control systems. I did product development, manufacturing process, and on-site support and inspections, but most of my time was really spent as a sales engineer. It was a great first job (I finished college in 1997), but a few years into it the company got stable (great!) and the work got repetitive (less great). That’s the kiss of death for me in any job.
Now I’m a hydrology professor. I’m five years into the job (13 if you count grad school and postdocs) and I haven’t been bored once.
2000 - lawyer who wrote opinions and briefs with a fountain pen and went to the law library to research in books before going off to court.
2019 - lawyer who writes opinions and briefs on a computer and researches law on my desktop computer, before going off to argue cases in court.
In other words, the things that I like the most (reading cases and statutes, writing briefs and opinions, and standing up on my hind feet to argue) haven’t changed at all.
I just recently delved into Angular, starting with 5, and the fact that it’s so new and 3 & 4 were so different makes learning about 5 via search engine a nightmare.
