Do you have a thing you daydream about – an ambition, a wish, a thing you’d love to do but you know it will probably never happen? Some people call it a bucket list, I suppose. I had that thing. I’ve had it since I was about 12, a freckle-faced island girl with a brother … Continue reading I surfed in Hawaii
In the month of October, I focused a large portion of my extracurricular work time on training new Automatticians and Happiness Engineer trials. We covered tools, tickets, tone – and in every session, a trainee taught me something new. This is a reason I love to teach. The joy of a student’s discovery is always … Continue reading The student is the teacher: helping out in Blogging 101
Several friends have asked, “How’s your writing going?” now that I’ve got a full-time job. While I haven’t been writing as much for my blogs as I was when I was a stay-at-home-mom, I am excited that my job as a Happiness Engineer involves writing All. Day. Long. Even more thrilling, especially for a writer … Continue reading A day in the life of a Happiness Engineer: word counts
I wasn’t sure if I’d be writing a whole series this week on my life as an Automattician, but today was so different from yesterday, I felt compelled. My Monday Day in the Life was very, well, Monday, with scheduling and time slots and laundry and my first attempt at training new hires. And today? … Continue reading A day in the life of a Happiness Engineer: Tuesday
In an effort to get to know each other’s work days better, and to share publicly what it is like to work for a distributed company where most of us work from home, some of us at Automattic will be publishing “A Day in the Life” posts on our personal blogs throughout this week. The … Continue reading A day in the life of a Happiness Engineer: Monday
When I applied for my job as a Happiness Engineer, I wasn’t entirely sure what the job would entail. The job title is unique, for sure, and when I wore my Happiness Engineer T-shirt on my way to the company’s Grand Meetup, three different people stopped me to ask “What’s a Happiness Engineer?” All three … Continue reading A day in the life of a Happiness Engineer: Introduction
Butterfly Mind 