honor of his five year anniversary with Microsoft, Josh wrote a astonishingly coherent blog entry entitled 5 Hints for Staying Prosperous at Microsoft (Hey, Josh is my husband. I can talk that way about him; you can’t.) :) that resonated most with me is #4: "Do something great that no one asked you to do." I’m the first to admit that my first few years here at Microsoft were really hard. I’ve always prided myself on currently being an overachiever, and until I got to Microsoft, the way I did that was by accepting a hard job and kicking butt at that job. And that’s what I did at Microsoft. Any task a manager or co-worker threw my way, I eagerly accepted. Need another person on your committee? Here I am! Need a volunteer on this project? Look,
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