Living in Finland and working for a bigger telecom supplier (you may know it:
name.startsWith("N") && name.endsWith("okia") :-) ) already since 1996.
Except my work life I am happy to be part of our family - my wife, our children + partners and grandchildren.
During my work life in IT I had the opportunity to do and learn quite a bunch of things, even without ever changing my employee.
This is definitely bad for CV, but I am already too old to care about.
In my former life - still in my home country Germany - I was studying Humanistics: History, Hungarian, Russian and some Finnish.
This turned out not to feed me and so - after moving ot Finland - I studied CS in Finland beside working as teacher for German.
As result I received my master degree in Computer Science from the University of Tampere, and also managed to start my current job.
IT-related things and skills I learned on job and/or outside the work:
scripting languages such as Bash, Perl or Python"real" programming in C++, Javasetting up web servers using Apache, nginx or JavaWeb serversdealing with obscure things such as XML, JSon and Yamlworking with version control systems: git, SVN, CSV and RCS (latter was my starting task)databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQLUnix and Linux, but also Windows. Usage of latter cannot be avoided in bigger enterprises.
I received now already expired cerfications for
SCJP Java 1.4 and 1.6 in 2005 (?) and 2011, SCWCD for JavaWeb in 2011 and RHCSA for RHEL in 2017 .
Last not least: end of Dec. 2023 I was nominated as Ranch Foreman in Coderanch.