Today, the company I will be working for next year held an introduction session for its graduate employees. There were 25 of us, chosen from more than 500 applicants. I felt pretty special.

It is an international engineering consultancy based in Australia and wholly owned by its employees. Sustainable development is incorporated in its core work. The people are intelligent, good-humoured and friendly. The work environment is bright, modern and open. We employees get paid to do interesting, varied and important work. For example, the company does environmental clean-up in the Pacific Islands. It developed a transportation strategy for Beijing. It did the groundwork for the Melbourne Commonwealth Games Village. It is contributing to the architectural redevelopment of Melbourne University. Hey, while I was working there last summer I wrote the first draft of Western Australia’s new environmental risk assessment policy! It’s exciting being part of something big like this.

I can’t imagine anything better, really. I feel very lucky to have this job.

I’m even luckier because I get another two months holiday before I start work 🙂