I started attending Saginaw Valley State University in 1998. A year and a half later, I got a job in the IT Services Support Center as a Student Technician. In 2002 I was hired as a Help Desk Analyst and graduated with my Bachelor’s a few months later. A little over a year ago I took a job as Microlab Technology Specialist. After nearly 10 years, Wednesday was my last day working for SVSU.
During my time with the school, I made a lot of friends and gained great experience. I’m sad to leave the people and a place that has been good for me, but I’m happy to be moving onto something new.
For the past 6 weeks, whenever I wasn’t at SVSU, I was working for Automattic. Thursday was my first day as Happiness Engineer for the company. My main focus is to provide support for WordPress.com but I also get my hands a little dirty with WordPress and other things. Automattic is a young company with a bright future. I’m thrilled to join a very talented team.
How did this come about?
Late in 2003 I was looking for some software to run a blog. I landed at Photo Matt and liked the way the site was setup, so I shot Matt an email. He suggested I give WordPress a try and I’ve been using it ever since. Over the years, I’ve contacted Matt a few times and earlier this year at the MacWorld WordPress meetup I had a chance to meet him in person. A week later I was browsing around the Automattic web site and noticed some jobs openings, so I applied. Now here I am…it’s my job to work with WordPress. Somebody pinch me!
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Welcome!
You rock, Nick. There goes my hero…
Congrats! Glad you’ll be staying in the WordPress family.
Hi!
I have come specifically to…
… say Hi!
Scope.
just one word: gr8
congrats.
Good luck Nick and congratulations.
wow, you’re rocks!
what qualification we should have to join wordpress sir?
Good luck
you’re great man
Nice. I wouldn’t mind working for WordPress …
It’s funny, WordPress wasn’t my first blog software. And I wasn’t fortunate enough to stumble across someone who could point me in the right direction… Previously I worked exclusively with b2evolution. But after discovering WordPress in late 2006, I was hooked. And it is now my preferred CMS.
The best thing about WordPress – besides being a great piece of software – is that it is very intuitive. I never have to teach my clients how to use the interface.
You haven’t been around in a while. Do you plan on coming back and writing on the blog a little?
WordPress is a very nice item to make a blog, so I love it too
Hi, I read ur blog and website and was mesmerised..WOw
Thanks for ur support to blogspot.
However I have one request that I really hope u would answer:)
As you all know, wordpress has no chatbox like those in blogspot.
We really hope that u could provide us with one.
It`ll be the best thing that could ever happen !!!
Marco
indeed, wordpress is kewL i’m using it too
WP indeed is well-loved by major SE’s, it is also the easiest to manipulate blogging CMS formats ever invented in the face of the internet. Great post!
God bless in your new career, hopefully my career will be successful also.
Wow that’s quiet the job, maybe you can help me with my site…j/k
. No as someone else said it is very intuitive.
Wow, that’s a pretty amazing story. Working at WordPress sounds like an awesome job, look at all of the cool functions you’ll get to attend. Plus your job title of a happiness engineer is really cool. On a side not when I first was learning about WordPress I stumbled upon PhotoMatt as well. I remember thinking what a nice site, I wonder who designed it for this guy. Eventually I figured out that the site belonged to Matt Mullenweg and who he was.
That’s pretty cool. While at automattic, do you know what they are doing with Akismet? It is a great spam tool. but on of the things is the false positives, and how a blogger can just send you to hell with one click. You must spend lots of time digging legit sites out of the box!
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