We lived on floating homes on the Seattle waterfront and spent our days kayaking around Lake Union.

I went to boarding school in Connecticut and college in Maine along the road to my home in the Pacific Northwest.

I spent two decades working in digital marketing, e-commerce, product marketing and consulting at big corporations and at small start-ups.

In the corporate world I went through my share of big promotions, new management, acquisitions, surprise reorganizations and structured layoffs (in no particular order).

Perhaps because of this—my favorite movie about life in a cubicle is Office Space.