Third Work-a-Versary

In addition to being Bastille Day, it is also the third anniversary of my joining Tucows as its Technical Community Development Coordinator. So far, in the course of this job, I have:

• Held one job title — Technical Community Development Coordinator — the longest title in the company
• Worked in two departments: Research and Innovation under “Boss Ross” Rader until recently, and now “Looking for a rhyme” Ken Schafer in the Marketing department
• Occupied three desks, two in the downstairs section, and now I’m upstairs
• Gone on four business trips, during one of which I met Wendy
• Appeared on TV five times as an employee of Tucows
• Written over six…teen hundred blog entries on Tucows Farm
• Explained that the company is more than just “the shareware site” seven gazillion times

Three years later, I’m still enjoying it here. The place still passes the “snooze bar test” — the only reason I ever hit the snooze bar on the alarm clock on a workday is because I was up late the night before and not because I’m dreading another day at the office. At the start of year four, my job’s going to go through some interesting changes not only as a result of my changing departments, but also because of some exciting changes all ’round — not just within the company, but also our neighbourhood, the Toronto tech and creative communities and in our industry. It’s going to be an interesting time, and I’m glad to be here.