As a software engineer supporting the Goddard Space Flight Center:

Love:
- Working for the space program.
- Getting paid to solve puzzles.
- Creativity - creating something new.
- Autonomy (my bosses leave me alone most of the time).
- Commute (ten minutes from home, door to door).

Hate:
- Funding shortages (I'm the only one in my area doing technical work because NASA can only afford one person on it.).
- Not very challenging right now.

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Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.