Window Factory

I was talking to a friend this weekend about past jobs, and it struck me the analogy between a job I had long ago and what I've had recently. When I was 18, I worked for a summer in a window factory. Now, I'm at Microsoft in what could be called the Windows factory.

To take a merely amusing analogy further, when I was 18, my job was as a glazer, putting the glass in the windows. My first role at Microsoft was Windows Server Community Lead, trying to get the development team's work to be more visible to customers. So, one could say that in both window factories, I was involved in transparency.