Yesterday, July 9, 2006, was my 12 year anniversary with the company that I work for, MAP Communications, Inc.

Wow, 12 years! I got a nice card from the company on Friday and $100 cash bonus to have a good weekend.

MAP is a nationwide answering service provider. We answer calls, mostly for businesses, doctors, lawyers, contractors, and the like then we dispatch messages by email, cell phone, pager, fax, even by calling the client. I started working in the call center answering phones. At the time I was going to school for electronic engineering and I moved to the pager repair area.

I worked in pager repair for a few years and then got promoted to the MIS/IT department of our subsidiary, SmartBeep. After a good run and the pager industry pretty much on the way out to cell phones and PDAs SmartBeep closed and I went back to MAP and for a while was the manager of the MIS department.

Now I am the Network Administrator. I oversee the day to day operations of our network, network hardware, Internet services, etc. I like the job, somedays more than others. Like any other company there are good things and bad things about MAP, but the good outway the bad and like anybody somedays I think I am worth more than I make. Not sure whether I will be here another 12 though, but I will be around for awhile.

I have a goal to someday work for myself. That is still aways off, but someday it will happen. Until then I am here doing my job the best that I can, learning everything I can, and taking pride in what I do.

MAP has been good to me the last 12 years. Wow 12 whole years - amazing.