Office Assassin

I recently left my job, of twelve years, from a company I helped build. I started my career with a lot of autonomy, but over the years and after a few private equity acquisitions my life was hitting a rut.

I have never been the scripted type (ask my parents) but I am a pragmatist. Growing up financially poor but emotionally rich I learned early on the value of close personal relationships and the stress not having resources puts on those relationships.

I vowed to rid myself of financial stress and to never let it back into my life or the life of anyone I care about. Being a pragmatist, and knowing I had zero financial safety net at the age of 18, I reluctantly attended an Ivy School to get an engineering degree, even though at the time I viewed college as a waste of valuable time. Fortunately because my family did not have anything to pay my tuition, I was granted an almost 100% need based scholarship. I did all right in school and ended up taking on some debt to get a masters degree in engineering. And I am incredibly happy I made this decision because I met my amazing wife at university and the degree opened doors for me when I was starting out as people were willing to give me the benefit of the doubt sight unseen just because of the name of the school on my degree.

After a 12-year career that started off UNSCRIPTED but slowly became a daily slog, I am longing to get back to solving interesting problems that provide real value and personal satisfaction. However, going it alone is difficult for an extrovert like myself. That is where you all come in! I look forward to being a part of this community and hopefully contributing value here while working to build some value that someone will eventually pay me for.

Cheers!
Greg