My First Grand Meetup

For the last two weeks, I have been visiting Orlando, Florida, attending Automattic’s annual Grand Meetup! (We all call it the GM.) This is the only time of the year when the whole company actually gets together in person. We spend a week doing a bunch of stuff! My schedule included… Meeting my team members […]

Automattic Acquires Tumblr!!

Hi all! It’s been quite some time now since I last posted on my blog. Two months in on my new job and I’m absolutely loving it here. I’ve just about found a good balance each day with work, exercise, family time, personal time and church ministry and I definitely plan on getting my blogging […]

The first few weeks at my new job!

Hi all! I’m now on my fourth week as a Happiness Engineer. Time is flying, but most enjoyably! I thought I would briefly rehash my first few weeks on the job and see what has happened. Meeting my Team As the Happiness Engineer division is huge at Automattic, it would be impossible to work effectively […]

Treasure Box – 3 – Birthday

Hi all! Last week was my wife’s birthday 🎂🎉 I had to write a post about it… to keep it in my treasure box 🙂 Where It All Began My wife and I have wanted to revisit Ecorin Village for some time now… Almost five years, to be exact. This place is dear to us. […]

Home Office + Swag

Hi all! I have now been working at Automattic for over a week and things are starting to settle in. While core work is essentially the same to what I was doing in the Trial, everything else feels totally different. For example… I’m starting to put faces and names together of my colleagues! You start […]

Thank you for the 200 likes!

So much has happened in the last two weeks! A brief rundown… I’ve finally started work as a full time Happiness Engineer and am absolutely loving it! More on this to follow in future posts. My home office is almost set up! Just waiting for my new chair to arrive next week. The fake leather […]