I'll tell you what I've been doing for the last year and a half.
It so happened that after I finished working at AVG, I looked for work for about 4 months. What I came across were, mainly, completely uninteresting offers, both money-wise and responsibility-wise.
Czech Unicredit jumped over everyone, looking for testers and offering me 90 crowns per hour. Although I was looking for work for 20 hours a week then, this was beyond good and evil.
In September I got a response from the company where I am now. They had an employee leaving who was doing tech support, so they needed to decide faster. This played into my hands and literally in 2 interviews over 5 days I ended up at Billigence company.
The beginning was very sharp - I started doing tech support for the German Vodafone business portal. At first I didn't really understand anything - tickets about bugs flew at me, and I had to somehow solve them.
After about a month I already understood everything and solved tickets without problems :) Closer to New Year we had a corporate party, already the second for me in the Czech Republic. We went to play trials, where there are 12 rooms, and you need to pass each one - jump on vines, walls, etc. Well, and then - a sea of beer and food somewhere in the center.
After New Year I asked for a raise and started working more - 4 days a week. I, by the way, was dealing with the Semanta program - this is a business portal that works like this: it collects metadata and makes connections between them. The specialization is called Data Governance, there's not even a translation into Russian :) So if I return to Russia, I know what I'll be doing. In general and in whole - big companies are looking for ways to bring order to data, of which there's a whole bunch. Imagine how much data a phone operator collects about you. I'll hint - a lot.
In general, it turned out that almost nobody in our company was dealing with this program either, but somehow new projects came only for it. So I went to Germany on a business trip to UnityMedia company (German analogue of Czech UPC). There we built a portal from scratch and it still works, you can consider it my baby :)
Then I went a couple times to Czech Vodafone. It's located on the other end of Prague and I didn't particularly like it there - it seems Czechs aren't interested in this product at all, they have other concerns.
Then there was another corporate party, this time in nature.
Then I fulfilled every mom's dream and worked on projects in banks - PPF and Czech Sberbank. If German Gref is reading this article - let him know that he can contact me if he wants to make a Business Intelligence portal for himself too :) I heard there that Sberbank RF is ahead of the planet and all so technological, well where are you, hello?
To this day I'm doing this. Interestingly, in all of Europe you can count specialists in this field on your fingers, so if you suddenly know someone in a company that needs to better monitor data - daddy will help