Horizons: Empire of Istaria Q&A
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Q: Tell me about your "professional" life before Horizons. What experience do you have? And what are you most proud of?
A: Excluding the myriad of 'interesting' jobs I did as a teenager, I've worked in a number of different industries, but have always been involved in software development. The work I found most interesting and enjoyed most was in the petroleum industry. I think a big part of that work was the people - geologists and geophysicists are just cool people in general and you get to deal with a lot of complex problems. The thing that makes it so interesting is that a lot of the work is interpretation - so there's not a single right answer, it's more like building a case to prove or disprove - and the software involved has to deal with that ambiguity and deal with the degrees or 'rightness or wrongness' in trying to solve problems.
