Passion is a Fantastic, Transferable Skill…

Dan Woodman, the Microsoft employee who famously had a tattoo of the company’s unofficial Blue Monster logo, has been laid off as part of the 1400 redundancies announced in January 2009.

The Blue Monster was created by cartoonist and professional blogger Hugh MacLeod.

In July 2008, Dan posted about his love for Microsoft on his blog with an article entitled I LOVE this company. In his final article (It is with Great Sadness…), Dan says the following:

“Working at Microsoft has been the greatest experience of my life and I have no desire to forget about it.  And even if I don’t get back into Microsoft right away (which is, by the way, my plan!), then I have a reminder that even outside of Microsoft, I need to do my best to change the world every single day.”

Dan has since started a new blog – From the Desk(top) of Dan Woodman – which will be well worth subscribing to.

I love the comment by Paul Murphy under Dan’s first post:

“Passion is a fantastic transferable skill. Look forward to seeing what you’ll get into next. All the best.”

Good luck Dan. The world needs more people like you.