This post was never published. It sat as a draft in WordPress from January 2015 until the blog was taken offline. Preserved here as a time capsule.

Today I thought I should write a little personal post about what I achieved in 2014, and what my goals are for 2015 and my general "plan" for the future.

Job

If you did not know, last year I was working my 2nd year as an IT support/helpdesk intern at a major company within the Silicon Manufacturer industry called Elkem Bremanger AS, when working there I learned a lot about how an IT department is ran, it was a very interesting experience for me and I managed to pick up a lot of knowledge while working there.

In Norway, an apprenticeship is usually "ended" with a final "exam" that you have to do, or you will fail and have to redo your intern year (not 100% sure on that though), so it is sort of a big deal for a lot of people.

Being an IT intern, my exam incorporated setting up a small "business network" involving Windows Server Domain Controllers, Printers deployed via Group Policies, Windows Client computers and lot's of fancy stuff like that, This of course is not very hard if you understand the basics.

I did very well on the test (except fucking up file permissions, but screw NTFS file permissions anyway!), and got a grade that would be the equivalent of an A+ (Basically, the best grade you can get), relieved after spending 2 days carefully crafting my documentation and setting it all up I was pretty happy about that.

Funny thing is that one of the guys that were evaluating me was actually a Programmer (C++ I believe), we talked for a little while about architecture and how to get a job and how to "be" a programmer/developer, it was very interesting talking to a professional programmer in real life, it is not something I had ever done before, I felt like a little kid in a candy store.

Anyways, I'm rambling, let's move on.

A month after I had finished my test my apprenticeship contract expired and I was now out of a job, I had already decided that I don't really want a helpdesk/IT Support job as I wanted to focus more on my programming skills.

So I started looking at web development jobs within my proximity, a few weeks later I applied for a job at FrontTek in Bergen, Norway, I thought their job ad was interesting as they listed the languages I had experience with (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, jQuery and Python) they were located in Bergen which was a place I would like to move to anyways, so I decided to apply.

A few days later I got a callback, they wanted to have an interview with me, I was pretty nervous about the whole thing and started looking around the internet for "interview tips" and various stuff like that.

Workflow

I have previously written 2 posts about the workflow that I used to have, beware they might make you cringe seeing what an unproductive mess of a workflow I used to have.

The draft ended here. Apparently 2015-Helge got distracted before finishing his year-in-review. Some things never change.