Greattest Jobs In the History of the World — Part 1

One of the best parts of my child­hood was Lego’s line of space kits. If you asked either of my broth­ers, I think they’d say the same. That’s why it was so cool to learn about Bjarn Tveskov, who got a job design­ing those kits for Lego in his late teens:

My LEGO career start­ed when I was 17 years old; I saw an ad in the Sun­day news­pa­per, they were look­ing for design­ers for the Space prod­uct line. No for­mal qual­i­fi­ca­tions were required so just for fun I applied. They sent me a big box of LEGO bricks and asked me to cre­ate a Space mod­el from imag­i­na­tion. Still got the mod­el I made back then. At the inter­view I real­ized that the job was a full-time posi­tion in Bil­lund, ini­tial­ly I thought that maybe it could be a free­lance gig, but no. So when sud­den­ly I was offered the job I had to ask my par­ents if it was OK if I quit high-school to become a Space­ship designer.

By Jason Coleman

Structural engineer and technical content manager Bentley Systems by day. Geeky father and husband all the rest of time.

2 comments

  1. Yep… That’s kind of a dream job for a kid… At least he did­n’t have to design them, then work as child labor to build all those plas­tic mul­ti-col­ored blocks…

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