Episode 95: Marius Jensen

Introducing Marius Jensen

Marius is an all-round work potato with a passion for helping others help others. Marius enjoys flying under the radar and represents the WordPress.org support community.

Show Notes

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Twitter | @ClorithMJ

Blog | Clorith.net

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Episode Transcript

Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use WordPress.

Liam: We ask questions, and our guests share their stories, ideas, and perspectives.

Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is episode 95.

Liam: Welcome to Hallway Chats. I’m Liam Dempsey.

Tara: And I’m Tara Claeys. Today we’re joined by Marius Jensen. Marius is an all-around work potato, with a passion for helping others help others. Marius enjoys flying under the radar and represents the wordpress.org support community. Welcome Marius. We’re so glad to have you with us today.

Marius: Thanks for having me.

Liam: It’s our pleasure, Marius. Thanks for joining us here in the Hallways. Can you tell us a little bit more about yourself, please?

Marius: Well, I’m early 30s man from Norway in a little town called Sola. It’s really hard to say in English. I basically spend my days mostly working for a small midsize company that does everything for other businesses, company wise or IT wise. So we cover websites and even hardware. So kind of interesting like that.

Tara: What’s your background? How did you get into WordPress and computer science? Did you study it in school?

Marius: That’s actually kind of interesting because I just had a passion for computers, but I started out working at an ice rink. So the company I worked for now, did the IT at the ice rink and just randomly saw me typing away at Linux one day on my computer. And that’s how they found me because they needed somebody who could do Linux.

Liam: Were you supposed to be heading out the rental skates. I mean, what we were supposed to be doing when you were typing at Linux at an ice rink?

Marius: Oh, man, I should probably have been doing that. I started out doing the card duty, which is basically skating around on the ice, making sure everybody’s okay and doing first aid if anybody gets hurt. And then I progressed up and I did rentals stuff as well. But in the end, I managed the rental section and all the people who bathed at the concession stands. And that’s when they found me because, during day time, there’s not much going on.

Liam: So, were you writing some kind of Linux-based software to manage the skate rentals or were you just messing about on the laptop? In LA, we need that skill set. Can you quit your day job and come work for us?

Marius: I actually was working on IRC Network. we had a pretty big one back in the days for a lot of kids. So much of my free time went to just administration stuff there. One day I randomly got a text message from an unknown number, but just the text, “Do you have MSN?” which obviously should have been a red flag. I’m not going to lie. But that turned out to be my now boss, who was just trying to reach out and see if I was looking for something new within IT.

Tara: Tell me about ice skating in Norway. Does everybody ice skate. I’m just curious about the hobby of ice skating. Is it a common past time? I live near an ice rink outside of Washington,