 He was hired as a secretary in National Insurance Administration in 1908, and after some years as secretary of the Norwegian Insurance Council since 1913 and teacher at the Norwegian Institute of Technology since 1915, he returned as head of department in the Insurance Administration in 1917.Already after one year, in 1918 he became editor-in-chief of the magazine "Økonomisk Revy".While at the Norwegian Institute of Technology he chaired the Student Society in Trondhjem from 1915 to 1916.