Categories: It Happened to Me

T minus seven days…

…until I start at Tucows as their first Technical Community Development Coordinator. I’m looking forward to the challenges of both defining and doing a job that will call on a lot of my technical, commincations and people skills. I’m also looking forward to the challenge of finding just the right kind of cow-themed paraphernalia for my work area.

Come to think of it, my life is becoming pretty cow-themed: I already drink at a bar called the Bovine Sex Club. I wonder if they have any office-appropriate decorative goodies. They do have their classic T-shirt:

  

It’s been almost two years since I last worked for someone else, during which time this blog has grown its readership considerably. Two of my readers, it turns out, are my new boss Ross and his boss Noss (Lookin’ forward to working with you guys, fo’ shizzle mah nizzles!). It would seem that I’ve got T minus seven days to put up some kind of “opinions expressed in this blog are mine alone and not those of my employer” disclaimer, perhaps spend some time looking at blogs of non-freelance techies and some companies’ blogging policies and of course, memorize the Mantra of the Star Employee: You don’t shit where you eat.

Joey deVilla

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