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My hometown is\u2026<\/strong> When I was 9, my family moved to Warwick, NY. I was raised to be capable of building my own chicken coop, by parents who always took home the class pet. We had an assortment of creatures at home at all times.<\/p>\n My favorite process in the UncommonGoods warehouse is\u2026<\/strong> I\u2019m inspired by\u2026<\/strong> The best gift anyone has given me was\u2026<\/strong> An uncommon fact about me\u2026<\/strong> When I\u2019m not working, I\u2019m probably\u2026<\/strong> The word that best describes me\u2026<\/strong> Working at UncommonGoods I\u2019ve learned\u2026<\/strong> With a pile of stuff in front of me I would build\u2026<\/strong> I would build my net worth! Considering I\u2019m a Halfpenny, I would have just increased it by 7200%!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mary Catherine is a Senior Manager at UncommonGoods, overseeing our Inbound Operations team. She’s a “real New Yorker” who once had a pet chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":26755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1170,1172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTechnically, I\u2019m from Staten Island, the last borough to get dug out when blizzards happen. New Yorkers think I\u2019m not really a New Yorker, but everyone else thinks I\u2019m legitimately from here.<\/p>\n
\nI think creativity is really important in the warehouse, especially in terms of process design. I\u2019m excited when I can take the innovations of my team and transform them into improvements to our processes, and benefit both the customers and those of us who work here at UncommonGoods.<\/p>\n
\nThe idea that all great movements start as seemingly small acts.<\/p>\n
\nI want to tell the story of a memorable gift that, unbeknownst to the giver or receiver, I was a part of putting together. We had paper roses that were made from paper from elephant dung. It was a bouquet of twelve roses, and I packed it in with a card that said, \u201cI know you\u2019re going through a tough situation right now, but be assured that good things can come from a sh*tty situation.\u201d This combination of humor with genuine care and creativity is one of the reasons I love our customers.<\/p>\n
\nI started at Uncommon Goods as a picker in the warehouse on December 4, 2009, and expected to be seasonally employed for 3 weeks.<\/p>\n
\nWatching Rachel Maddow online.<\/p>\n
\nQueer.<\/p>\n
\nThat staying up until midnight running correlations on datasets is really fun.<\/p>\n
\nYou’re given paint, some scraps of wood, an old t-shirt, rubber cement, cotton swabs, and 36 cents (in whatever combination of coins you choose).<\/em><\/p>\n