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One year ago today I joined COWI, in a daring and bold career move that - at that time - was equal parts exciting and terrifying. In the one year I have worked in COWI, I have learned an absurd amount about Gina gaskets and immersed tunnels, fire safety and metro ventilation, cable stayed bridges that seem to defy gravity. Learned that the ocean can be treacherous and invade our space, and that we can reclaim some of it and make it into beautiful, useful social spaces. But above all, I learned that we need to do things together, and that the future is NOW, and because it belongs to us it is also our responsibility to make sure the world is taken care of. It is not only building and building and building: it is also caring about what we do, and why we do it, and how we can do it in a way that is beneficial to Earth as a whole. How a single action might have an enormous impact in the environment, how we must spend as much time building as we spend researching how to do it in a better way, with environment friendly materials and processes that are the least aggressive possible to the world around us. COWI has taught me that there should be no boundaries to what people know, and that many nationalities can coexist and work together towards a goal that can seem as "simple" as building a bridge, but also as challenging as linking continents and securing people travel safe. It has taught me that profit margins are important to secure there is work for everyone, but it is equally important to have an ice-cream with your colleagues in the middle of a hot afternoon. It has showed me the importance of shared Friday breakfasts, and that a plethora of enormous talents does not mean one obfuscates the other; on the contrary, we need light from every possible angle to be able to do what is right. Always. If I could go back in time, I would tell myself one year ago that the leap into the unknown would be exciting and safe, and that there is so much learning to do and so much to discover that I will never be able to look at the world the same way again. That in the end of one year I will take a new metro line (one I had absolutely nothing to do with) and feel proud of working for the company who put that together. I would tell myself to open my mind to an entire new experience, and that, after one year, I would be looking forward to many more years to come.
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