I'm a Software Engineer for a Norwegian tech company. My formal title is "Digital og Web Utvikler" (Digital and Web Developer).

I do enjoy my job very much. My focus is integration, so most of my day is spent figuring out how to cleanly get disparate systems / technologies that were usually never designed to work together with other systems / technologies outside of their own ecosystems to play nice. It's fun work thanks to the interesting problems that need solving. It helps that I like learning new things, because oftentimes I'm learning new languages and frameworks, sometimes in as little as a day, other times over the course of months. I've had the same job for two different companies now, and this most recent company requires C# and .NET, so I'm learning a lot about those as well as how to get my Windows-related productivity to be on-par with my Linux-related productivity.

So far as education is concerned, my formal education is lacking. I didn't complete my degree due to life circumstances that warranted accepting a job prior to the completion of my studies (not to mention several deployments to Iraq), but I've had a lot of experience and a lot of personal study time. The biggest thing was sitting down and figuring out the most effective way for me to learn things quickly and in enough detail to do at least as good of a job as someone with formal education. I started my formal education in linguistics and adult language learning prior to making the move (changed major and school) to software development where I interned at Intel on their WiDi team and earned college credit for my contributions to various Linux distros (on top of extra credits provided by professors who recommended open source contributions). So yeah, my education is very broad and there are plenty of gaps in it, so I try really hard to learn as "completely" as possible in order to make up for that. Everything else is note taking and doing the thinking part :)