Tag: job

  • Two years at Award Force and the dandelion war

    Two years at Award Force and the dandelion war

    It has been more than two years since I started with Award Force and a year since I became a product manager. I love my job, my role, the company, and all my colleagues. I am so fortunate in all respects and am particularly grateful to have a full-time job at a time when so…

  • Rewarding excellence

    Rewarding excellence

    I’m excited to announce that I have a new job! This week I started working for an Australian company that makes software for managing awards programs. It’s called Award Force. Humans are extraordinary creatures. We are always pushing the boundaries of knowledge and innovation and an important part of this is recognising achievement and excellence.…

  • I am one very happy Happiness Engineer

    I little while ago I had a job interview that I accidentally turned up a day early for. Well, I’ve just been offered the job! I am now a very proud and excited Happiness Engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Cloudup, PollDaddy, Jetpack, VaultPress, Gravatar, Akismet and more. Fortunately turning up a day early…

  • How many times can I embarrass myself in one week?

    This morning at 6am I had a job interview; at least I thought I did. My instructions were to be online at 5pm GMT on March 26th. I spent so much time checking and double-checking that 5pm GMT was indeed 6am New Zealand time that it didn’t occur to me that 5pm on the 26th…