So, I was a wee bit nervous about my first day at a new job for many reasons, but one of them was certainly introducing myself in front of all 300+ team members (most of whom I hadn’t met yet — I’ve since met a bunch of them, and they’re all pretty cool, and not really all that scary…)
Well, as it happens, the speaker at the Lampo devotional this morning used me, as the newest hire, as an illustration. “Who’s the newest here?” One hand goes up…mine. “Who are you?” “What do you do?” “Who’s your boss?” — by that question, I was flustered enough that I couldn’t find him and the speaker actually beat me to him “Oh, hey, he’s right in front of you!” But, that went fine, too, and was pretty funny.
BUT, my week of fame isn’t over yet!
Today, the local FOX affiliate came to Lampo to do a piece on the wealth of tech jobs in the Nashville area and at Lampo specifically. They interviewed Jon Shearer (my boss’s boss’s boss) and shot some footage of some of us working at our desk. If you watch the video and watch/skip to the end, I’m the last developer. Well. That’s my head. They really only show the back of my head and the top part of my awesome new “code hope” daveramsey.com web team t-shirt. They didn’t show the bit where I turned around without realizing they were behind me filming, gasping, then turning back to my desk really quick. Nor did they show the part where I did something wrong to my editor and had to force close it.
So, a whopping 90 seconds of public speaking and 2.5 seconds of television fame! What’s next? It’s only Wednesday!
