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How do you keep yourself motivated and inspired in your work?
I entered the working world with undiagnosed ADHD and had to spend a lot of time figuring out ways to make my brain happy to avoid getting painfully and irritably bored from things I didn't enjoy at work. Leaning into what I enjoy at work has since had a huge influence on my career path.
Today, most of the work I do - writing, editing, strategizing, and organizing - is a flow activity of mine. It brings me joy and pride, and makes the hours pass quickly. When I am not actively in a flow state and need to find motivation, I lean on the happy chemicals (dopamine) I get from checking off on a to do list or focusing on the people I am helping by doing a task (serotonin).
What motivated you to join GD Next and what are some ways in which you participate in the ERG?
I was interested in the group when it originally formed as GD Grad but didn't have the bandwidth to support it actively at the time. Recently, I volunteered as an Intern Buddy, supporting two folks as they navigate our unique organization. When the call for leaders went out, it felt like the right next step, but I am admittedly very new to things.
Recently, I learned the phrase "send the elevator back down." It is a perfect metaphor for sharing knowledge and supporting people who are looking to grow in their career or facing challenges I've faced. This is one of my favorite ways to give back to the world, and my kids are not really the right audience. Yet.
What are the goals and values of GD Next and how do they align with your personal and professional aspirations?
I am very passionate about the work this ERG is doing in part because I struggled to find mentorship when I was earlier in my career. (Admittedly, I still do, but I'm always asking questions and learning from everyone around me). I was raised by my grandparents, and the insight they offered didn't apply to the working world I had entered. I had to push through a lot of fear, anxiety, and bad habits to get to where I am today. If I can help anyone else avoid or expedite some of those struggles, I will. There is so much about the working world they don't teach in school, even at the highest levels of academia.
What's the most challenging, yet rewarding thing that you've worked on at GoDaddy?
I've worked on several challenging projects in my time here. The most notable in my memory was developing a new approach for how developers communicate changes broadly to other developers. It was the first multi-year project I proposed and executed in my career. Supporting the global roll-out of our internal messaging platform and the migration from our old intranet were also rewarding. It's a point of pride that everyone at our company has received something I wrote, whether they knew it was from me or not. I'm thinking the rest of my team probably feels the same.
What advice would you give other individuals, starting out at GoDaddy?
I'll tell you what I told one of my GD Next Intern Buddies when they asked this question: Ask more questions. If you don't ask a lot of questions, ask more. If you ask a lot questions, ask even more. There is so much tacit knowledge here and most information is learned through people and relationships, not documentation. There is always more to the story than it first appears, and I have yet to meet anyone at GoDaddy who is not interested in helping others by sharing what they know.
What is your experience and favorite part of working with GoDaddy interns?
I've been serving as an intern buddy this summer. Volunteers like myself are paired with an intern to help them build professional relationships outside of their immediate team/projects. It makes for a more well-rounded understanding of our company, gives them another person to cheer them on, and helps expands their professional network.
I've enjoyed being able to share the knowledge I needed at that phase of my career but had no idea I needed. Joining the working world is extremely complex.
What do you enjoy doing outside of work?
Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my family. I like reading, writing, and designing for fun, not just for work. We watch a lot of movies, put together puzzles, and play games. I play video games, but nothing stressful - Sims and Legend of Zelda are my all-time favorites. I recently took on our Girl Scout troop because volunteering for our troop was far more fun than expected. It's another way to support my own kids as they grow and learn, and I get to help "send the elevator back down" by sharing or modeling what I've learned during troop activities.
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你如何保持工作上的動力和靈感?
在我進入工作世界之前,我患有未被診斷的注意力缺陷多動障礙,不得不花很多時間找出讓我的大腦對工作感到滿足的方法,以避免對我不喜歡的工作感到痛苦和不耐煩。傾向於我喜歡的事情已經對我的職業道路產生了巨大的影響。
如今,我大部分的工作——寫作、編輯、策劃和組織——都是一種讓我流連忘返的活動。它給我帶來了快樂和自豪感,讓時間過得很快。當我沒有處於流動狀態時,需要找到動力時,我就依靠會讓我分泌快樂化學物質(多巴胺)的任務清單或專注於通過任務幫助他人(血清素)來獲得動力。
是什麼激勵你加入GD Next,以及你參與ERG的方式?
我對這個團體的興趣始於它最初成立時的GD Grad,但當時我沒有時間積極支持它。最近,我作爲實習生小夥伴志願者,支持兩個人在我們獨特的組織中導航。當領導人的呼籲出現時,這似乎是正確的下一步,但我承認對事物還很陌生。
最近,我了解了“讓電梯返回”的短語。這是一個完美的比喻,用於分享知識和支持那些想要在事業上成長或面臨我曾經面臨的挑戰的人們。這是我回饋世界的最喜歡的方式之一,而我的孩子並不是合適的聽衆。
GD Next的目標和價值觀是什麼,它們如何與您的個人和職業願望相符?
我非常熱衷於這個ERG所做的工作,部分原因是我在早期職業生涯中很難找到良師益友。(承認,我仍然在尋找,但我一直在問問題並從身邊的每個人中學習)。我是由我的祖父母撫養長大的,他們提供的見解並不適用於我進入的工作世界。我必須克服很多恐懼、焦慮和壞習慣才能到達今天的境地。如果我能幫助任何人避免或加快一些這些掙扎,我會盡力而爲。即使在最高學術領域,也還有很多有關工作世界的東西他們不教。
在GoDaddy上,你做過最具挑戰性,但最有回報的事情是什麼?
我在這裏的時間裏做了幾個具有挑戰性的項目。記憶中最顯著的是爲開發人員廣泛傳達更改的新方法。這是我職業生涯中提出和執行的第一個跨年項目。支持我們內部消息平台的全球推出和從舊企業網站的遷移也是很有成就感的。我們公司的每個人都收到了我寫的某些東西,無論他們知道它是來自我還是不知道。我想我的團隊的其他人可能也有同樣的感覺。
你會給其他在GoDaddy開始工作的人什麼建議?
我告訴過我的GD Next實習生夥伴之一的話:問更多的問題。如果你不問很多問題,請問更多的問題。這裏有很多隱性知識,大多數信息是通過人與人之間的關係和交流得到的,而不是通過文檔獲得的。故事的背後總是有更多的東西,而我還沒有遇到過不願通過分享他們所知道的東西來幫助他人的GoDaddy的任何人。
你和GoDaddy實習生一起工作的經歷和最喜歡的部分是什麼?
這個夏天我一直作爲實習生夥伴服務。像我這樣的志願者與實習生配對,幫助他們在團隊/項目之外建立專業關係。這樣可以更全面地了解我們公司,給他們更多的人來鼓勵他們,並擴大他們的專業網絡。
我喜歡分享我在那個階段的職業生涯中需要但不知道我需要的知識。加入工作世界是非常複雜的。
您在工作之外喜歡做什麼?
在工作之外,我喜歡和我的家人在一起。我喜歡讀書、寫作和進行設計,不僅僅是爲了工作。我們看很多電影,拼圖和玩遊戲。我玩電子遊戲,但沒有壓力——《模擬人生》和《塞爾達傳說》是我最喜歡的遊戲。最近,我承擔了我們的女童軍團的工作,因爲志願爲我們的部隊服務比預期的更有趣。這是支持自己的孩子成長和學習的另一種方式,我可以在團隊活動中分享或模擬我所學到的東西。
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