Gongos has a fantastic team. I like that we have the resources of a large company, but maintain our small company culture. No day is ever alike here and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Work/Life balance is also important to me and we do that perfectly here.
In a word…variety! Since moving to the Analytics team, I’ve had the opportunity to work as a project director and day-to-day consultant with all of the project teams and their clients. I love having my hands in a lot of different research studies and meeting the needs of our project teams’ requests.
From a young age it was obvious to pretty much everyone who knew me that I had a very analytical bent. I tend to focus on the details of a problem – why something isn’t working and what’s wrong with the existing situation. I like to troubleshoot different situations and challenges, inside and outside of the workplace.
Today I arrived to work at 8am with plans to work on a study I am managing, where the incidence was far less than we anticipated. When I logged in, however, I had a number of emergency do you have 10 minutes to help emails. Although the success of my project rests on my shoulders, our goal in Analytics is to never say no to our internal team members’ needs. So I began working on the requests from my fellow employees.
First, I resolve problems in Excel. Fortunately, by always documenting common requests, I didn’t have to reinvent the wheel. After that, concept images needed to be reworked before they could go “live” to respondents. By 11:00am I finally had a chance to get back to my study. I called a number of our partners who maintain Internet panels and to examine the most cost-effective solutions.
Lunch rolls around and fortunately I have time to join the other staff in the lounge. On the TV was Family Feud. That always seems appropriate for a company that does a lot of surveys.
Arriving back at my desk, I was happy to have responses from our sampling partners. It’s going to be quite an afternoon trying to figure out the best plan for my study while trying to meet all the needs internally….but I thrive on this stuff!
I’ve played piano for 22 years. Although the years don’t always show in my ability, I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to help lead worship at my church every month. Additionally, the band Bowen that I started with friends when I was 12 years old is still playing locally. I also love road trips. For me, vacation is about the journey – not the destination. I love hitting all the crazy Americana and roadside oddities that I pass on the way. I feel that I’d miss so much if I chose to fly, and I think about the places I’d never see if I hadn’t driven through. Sometimes I almost think I could drive into the horizon forever…and then I remember what I have to come home to.