Today I reached my 12 year anniversary of employment with Autodesk. That is 84 in dog years or 4,383 days. I have been happy and challenged while at Autodesk and look forward to at least another 84 years. I came here from using Autodesk products in the design world to building and designing the products I used as a customer. I came with wide eyes and copious brown hair. Now I have some grey hair that I recently shaved off, some wrinkles, and a mild nervous twitch when I hear the words “action item”, “no problem”, “works on my machine”, “meeting” or “scope”.
If I was in the main corporate office in California today, I would typically be taken out back and beaten with a firm stick, wait I mean taken out to lunch with free drinks to celebrate. Since I am working remotely from Utah today, I will just take a moment to smile, reflect, laugh and remember all the great customers and coworkers I consider friends, and the projects from the past years and look forward to many more to come.
Maybe I will get myself a big schooner of beer, purchase a self designed 4 foot tall trophy to mark the occasion or perhaps that special eye popping bling I saw in a store window when in Hong Kong, and then.expense report it all. OK maybe not.
Seriously all joking aside I have a great job, employer, and top notch coworkers except for that Kurt… 😉
Onward and upward,
Shaan
congradulations Shaan. these days with revolving door hiring policies and strategies, it seems stranger than ever to hear of people staying with the same company for more than 10 years, let alone 12. R14 came out around 12 years ago (still my favorite release of all time), and i imagine it was an excellent release to come into the company on with so many users being thrilled with its speed, stability and (new) VBA customizability. doesn’t seem that long ago, does it.
Huh?
What did I do now?
Congrats on 12 years – man it’s been ultra-painful from my perspective.
🙂
Kurt, You know I love you even though you are head of the Backstreet Boys fanclub. I still have a few pranks for you up my sleeve to roll out someday! Bwahaha
dave ea,
I would love to take full credit for R14, but I was an alpha tester and customer until just before AutoCAD R14.01 Pinetop. I would like to think that some of my whining during the R13 customer beta testing led to R14, or helped.
I am still looking to see if someone has the video interview from a R14 demo CD-ROM with me on it as a R14 customer. Also did a live R14 launch broadcast with then NAAUG President Don Spencer and Silicon Valley pundit Stewart Chefet (sp).
Cheers,
Shaan
Hi Shaan,
Congrats . . .
Thank you Sunith.
Please help lobby Autodesk to get Lynn, Heidi and Me to India and the large India based Autodesk user groups. I must get to India someday not just fly over it. Maybe I could squeeze in your luggage and sleep on a couch after AU 2010. 🙂
Cheers,
Shaan
12 years huh…? I only have 12 years to catch up to you now… 🙂
Congrats…
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TITLE: 15 Years with Autodesk
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It was 15 years ago today I climbed out of the mechanical design trenches as a customer and grabbed onto a speeding locomotive named Autodesk and transitioned into a world of software. That’s 105 years in dog years. Time flies when you love what you do…