Four Years!

Today is a landmark day for me.

Today is the four-year anniversary for me joining Clorox's Multimedia Department. Crazy, eh?

Four years and four weeks ago I received a crazy email from my little sister, who had started working for Clorox's design department a few months earlier. "Sister" she said to me, "send me your resume and demo reel. The folks here want to see your stuff."

I said no. Truly, I did. I'd just started a job in Utah, managing the graphics department of a medium sized print house. It wasn't my dream job, but I was good at it and I enjoyed it. Honestly, my dream job was working for a small, in-house media department at a corporation... (Uh, hello, Clorox!) But I'd made a commitment to my new (print house) job and I was going to keep it.

Sister persisted in pestering me. "Send me your resume. Just do it!"

FINE.

The next weekend I flew out to meet the Clorox people (who were awesome and agreed to meet me on a Saturday because I couldn't take time off of work - we were THAT busy!). I'd expected to pick up some video freelance work, possibly. But to my utter shock, horror and amazement, they offered me a full-time position, starting just as soon as I could possibly move to California.

I remember sitting in my car. Shaking. So absurdly tingly, grateful, excited, amazed, that I felt almost like puking. It was a life-changing moment.

Three weeks later I finished out my print job, packed up a uhaul trailer hooked to the back of my trusty White '99 Jeep Cherokee Sport (That thing was a TANK. Far and away my favorite car ever. Miss it!) and drove the long highway down to Cali.

I grew up in the Bay Area. Did you know that? I'm a California girl, born and bred. The funny thing is, I never, in a million years, thought I'd live here again. And not twenty miles from where I grew up. Life is full of all sorts of surprises, isn't it?

Well. Not unexpectedly, it's been a great job. And it's been flexible enough to allow me to take off and travel and keep my wanderlust-monster in check. Which really is the most important thing.

It's been a great four years, Clorox. Thanks for the ride.