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A day in the life of a Happiness Engineer: Monday
Posted on October 6, 2014December 15, 2014

A day in the life of a Happiness Engineer: Monday

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

A day in the life of a Happiness Engineer: Introduction
Posted on October 6, 2014December 15, 2014

A day in the life of a Happiness Engineer: Introduction

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

Saturday hike in Park City, Utah
Posted on September 21, 2014April 9, 2017

Saturday hike in Park City, Utah

When I looked out the plane window and saw the mountains of Utah, I saw saw-blade ridges that are wholly unlike the rounded green mounds of the Appalachians I’m used to. I couldn’t wait to get out into them, and after a nearly a week at our hotel, I finally took a gondola ride up … Continue reading Saturday hike in Park City, Utah

A different kind of photo session
Posted on September 19, 2014April 9, 2017

A different kind of photo session

I generally photograph nature: hikes in the Appalachians, camping in Shenandoah, clouds in Florida, marshes in Georgia. This week, though, I am among talented creatives who organized a morning photo walk not on a hiking trail, but down Main Street in Park City, Utah. At 7:30 in the morning, before the sun crested the peaks … Continue reading A different kind of photo session

I was going to run a 5K
Posted on September 18, 2014April 9, 2017

I was going to run a 5K

I’m in Park City, Utah for the annual Automattic Grand Meetup, and I had originally signed up to run the WordPress 5K this morning. After all the wine I drank last night, though, I decided to go for a solo mini-hike instead. I took these photos on the trail behind our hotel as the sun … Continue reading I was going to run a 5K

Call me Democratizer
Posted on September 3, 2014December 15, 2014

Call me Democratizer

I can’t wipe this grin off my face. Remember that job I’ve been alluding to and that I’ve been working towards the past few months? I got it! On September 4, 2014 – my 40th birthday – I begin my career with Automattic, a web company that describes its services using haiku, that has employees … Continue reading Call me Democratizer

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Andrea Badgley is a mom, wife, reader, and writer. She grew up on the coast of Georgia and now lives with her husband and two children in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia. Her work appears in Southern Women’s Review, on the Brevity blog, and on The Daily Post. Follow her on Twitter @andreabadgley.

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