Big Career News

Exciting but sad news:

On Monday, I'm joining Lullabot as a Drupal developer. Tomorrow is my last day at Jackson River.

I am thrilled to be joining Lullabot. Not long after I began working with Drupal a little over two years ago, I knew that I wanted to one day work for the company. I was able to get up to speed quickly thanks to their training videos, I learned how to build modules properly at the Deep Dive Week, and I learned about Drupal 7 during the Webchick tour: Lullabot has been instrumental in getting me into the Drupal world, and I knew from the first time that I met some of the 'bots that I wanted to work with them one day. I even mentioned it on Eaton's blog about this time last year:

Is it weird that I aspire to one day be a Lullabot?

I've met parts of your crew a few times: the module deep-dive week, the Webchick tour, Chicago. Every time, I've impressed by how friendly you guys all are. I mean, you're like Drupal celebrities, but you're still REGULAR PEOPLE. And of course, you guys have fantastic talent and do interested work.

I think that at any given time, there are a handful of companies that one holds up as the gold standard of places to wrok. For a lot of people, it has been IBM, Microsoft, Apple, or any other major tech player; up until a few years ago, I hoped I could get good enough to work for Google. These days, Lullabot is that company for me. It's hard to articulate why; there's just the sense that it's a good company of good people that know what they're doing and are passionate about all things Drupal. And in an asbtract sense, I guess, that's actually what I aspire to be.

Obviously, I'm incredibly excited to be joining the 'bots and can't wait to see what I'm going to get into starting next week, but I'm certainly going to miss everyone at Jackson River. I've spent the past two years working with a fantastic team there and made a lot of great friends. During an interview, I was asked why I was looking to leave Jackson River and could honestly say that I wasn't: I wasn't looking for a new job and wasn't planning on leaving JR, but this is the goal that I've had in my sights for some time, and I'm thankful to have arrived sooner than expected.

It's a bittersweet transition, but mostly sweet. My time at Jackson River was wonderful, but I'm looking forward to new challenges and opportunities.

Oh, and for what it's worth: both Jackson River and Lullabot are hiring. I can personally recommend the former, and have heard only good things about the latter ;-)