Fifteen Years

Wednesday marked a pretty significant milestone for me professionally. You can see from the photo below that I’ve crossed the fifteen year mark with the company. I posted this award when it came in a week or two ago with no explanation but I’ll give it now because we’ve arrived at the actual day. I started off as a summer assistant while I was just a young pup doing my undergraduate degree. I started with Monsanto, a company I’d decided I wanted to work for when I was sixteen. My life plan was to go to University of Guelph, get a Masters in Science and then work for Monsanto. I’d accomplished all that before I was thirty. The Msc took the longest to achieve, I’d gotten the job and gone to Guelph by the time I was nineteen. I kept coming back for summer roles every year, working for a couple of different supervisors. Then I transitioned into an office role fulltime while I continued (started) to write my thesis. After two years I moved back to the field and managed my own research farm for seven years before moving into my current role as Licensing Product & Technology Manager for Canada. It has gone by very quickly as I mentioned Monday. I wanted to share that with my small readership before moving into the minutia of the day.

In terms of said minutia, there isn’t much of note to report. I played out my morning routine like any other day, shower and usual fare to break the fast. Then I worked on a single brand’s corn presentation the entire day. I stopped for soup and a wrap at lunch and tried to have a short nap to remedy a sore neck that I work up with. The nap didn’t take but a couple of Tylenol ridded me of the pain. It was after six when I released the mouse and backed away from the computer.

The larders are growing empty these days so I felt like I needed to pull something out of the back of the fridge. I decided I’d whip up some perogies, in that I dumped them into bacon grease and slowly warmed them to an edible temperature. I spared some shredded cheese and some hot sauce to make them more delicious. That was pretty much the day. For the evening, I cleaned up my mess. I had a video chat with Admiral Bonesaw and Dutchie for an hour. It ended because I had to pee too badly and didn’t think to pause things. I wanted to chat with them about Christmas plans and gift ideas. After peeing, I watched YouTube subscription videos and then fell asleep at a decent hour.