Six years in Corporate America. Five of those years working from home for HP. When I was hired I asked my manager if they cared where I lived since I worked from home. Her response, "You can live on the moon as long as you have an internet connection."
Can you say DREAM JOB!
I haven't talked about my job on the blog at all and now that I'm moving on to full-time motherhood I wanted to give a little shout out to HP, for being an amazing place to work full of wonderful people. Granted, all the downsizing and restructuring have killed a bit of the fun but man, I used to pinch myself all the time, I felt so lucky. HP you'll always have a bit of my heart. Don't change too much.
Highlights....
- Creating and giving a communications training to a team in Bangalore, India and Singapore with one of my favorite friends and old BYU roomies who was also a co-worker of mine
- Hotel shopping for a conference I organized in New York City. This meant traveling there several times and being spoiled sick by the Westin Times Square, The Roosevelt, The Waldorf-Astoria and the Essex House - all in an effort to win our favor
- Presenting at a few of the many many worldwide webcasts I produced every few months
- An absolutely pointless and fabulous team meeting trip to Munich, Germany
- A week in Acapulco, Mexico (hotel hunting for another conference) where I swam with dolphins and got a lovely sunburn sitting with my laptop by the pool
- Getting a one-way ticket to Houston because they needed my help so much...and staying for 17 days. I ate EVERYTHING on the Sheraton's room service menu and got a zillion starwood points
- Working on my laptop while getting a pedicure
- Traveling so much I would often forget which airport I was at
- SPA trips and amazing hotels! The Ritz-Carlton in Singapore, the Leela Palace in Bangalore and a myriad of Starwood favorites.
- I could go on forever. Thanks Marie, Pat, Emil, Katie and the million other people that made HP such a wonderful place to work and helped me appreciate the finer things in life (haha, Kris is ever so grateful :)
8 comments:
I must say, number 2 on your list was unforgettable!way to go mommy!
yippeeee wahooooo way to go Cath! you blessed soul.
WOW! What a great job-welcome to full time motherhood-you'll never be so busy!
You're awesome! Could I say more? And I hope you never look back on that decision.
Woo hoo! Congratulations! Love the list of highlights! Fun times for sure. And Munich was NOT pointless...we had shopping to do, right? :)
Call me sometime! I want to talk to you!
And what a beautiful stay-at-home-mom you make.
I love your social experiments! hahaha. That comment just made my day. :)
P.S. I didn't even know you had been working this whole time! Wow. That is pretty impressive. Welcome to the best full time job in all the world:) {not that you don't already know that or didn't already have two jobs... you know what I mean:)}
Where do I sign up for that job? LOL..sounds like a lot of fun traveling to all those places!! But, I am sure, nothing compares to being with your little guy :)
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