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"...the kind of people that get up in the morning, go to work/school, come home at four o'clock, eat dinner, watch Friends and go to sleep.. repeat until end of week.. get drunk in the weekend.. another round of Friends... loop"
-- loaderror/Ephidrena on IRC [see Internet Relay Chat] (my translation)

From July 2007, I will be employed at Google.

I'm a bit unsure how living as a grown-up will be -- I mean, I've soon spent 15 years in school [see school] (at least if you count university as school), and getting up to work every day is obviously becoming something different. I mean, at school, you're at least always going ahead against some goal (like "in three years, I'll be done with my university degree" or whatever [see process vs. goal orientation]), whereas at work, you're more or less caught in some endless rhythm.

I tend to keep changing interests all the time (which makes me know a bit about a lot of more or less useful things); I wonder if I'll ever be content working with just one subject over a long period of time. Ideally, of course, the best job would of course be both interesting (that is, always bring up new stuff to learn, I guess), social [see society] (as in, you get to work with friendly and intelligent people) and well paid, but I guess you can't have it all... heck, lots of people are lucky enough if they can get any job. Oh well, time [see time] will show, I guess.

This is definitely not intended to be a CV, but here's at least a partial list of some part-time work I've done earlier (not necessarily in chronological order):

• I've been doing web development for various companies and entities.
• I've been writing real-time 3D map visualization software.
• I've been a student assistant.
• I've been writing micro-controller code for indoor positioning systems.
• I've played the piano in a Ten-Sing choir [see religion].
• I have written database systems for storing and keeping track of questionnaires, amongst other things.
• I've programmed the framework for an audiovisual demonstration for a computer display company.
• I've done customizing work for a specialized version of an open-source computer game.

I'm also frequently doing unpaid work, such as

• Packaging software for Debian GNU/Linux [see Linux], as well as helping develop their new installation system. (I've also done some work on various other open source programs over the time, but it varies a lot how active I am.)
• Developing documentation systems, password integration systems, back-ends for radar counting systems, administrating Linux servers and lots of other stuff for Studentersamfundet i Trondhjem (Trondheim's student society).
• I've been doing various volunteer work (for the last five years) for The Gathering [see The Gathering] and other computer parties [see "LAN" vs. "computer party"].

You'll probably notice that most of this has to do with computers in some form, most of it some form of development [see creation and programming].