Karen is in Japan
In mid 2007, we had Karen join us as a student graphic designer. She was a little different in various ways. We like different. Karen was obsessed with Courier New, but left us after a couple of weeks. I later found out that she told some of the others that I (the boss) was “missing something upstairs”.
She’s completely right. I probably am – but that’s another story that I will privately share with my specialist.
Anyway, while Karen was still here, another Karen graphic designer joined us. In all my geekdom, the first thing I thought about this second Karen was: “oh noess.. how is her e-mail address going to work!!! – we already have a karen@rockstar…”
Karen #2 found out about Rockstar from another one of our designers Margareth, who is awesomely talented and funny. So by default she was in – and didn’t have to sit the full job interview. Inside I would hope that she would hang around for a while.
She ended up hanging around for over 3 years, and grew to be the most amazingly awesome, professional, hard working worker, ever. The type you really really really want to find as an employer.
Much to our sadness, and happiness, Karen headed off to Japan earlier this year to follow her dreams and study and live in Japan. She’s doing fine and dandy, and you can read her blog here.
Karen says:
(sob sob)
Thank you Nathan – I had a lot of fun and not to mention learned heaps of invaluable experience at Rockstar. What you said during my interview was right, I graduated as a rich person indeed