King’s Cross this morning. It sure didn’t look like this 8 years ago.

On this day eight years ago, I arrived for my first day of work at Nature Publishing Group (NPG).

During my time at NPG, I have:

– helped to launch two journals (Nature Nanotechnology and Nature Chemistry)

– had three different bosses

– sat at five different desks

– given more than thirty external talks about publishing

– travelled just under 200,000 miles by train commuting to work

– spent roughly £30,000 on that commute (ouch)

– received somewhere in the region of 80,000 e-mails

I wonder what the next 8 years will bring?