{"id":26945,"date":"2013-09-10T11:23:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T15:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=26945"},"modified":"2016-08-10T15:21:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T19:21:17","slug":"uncommon-personalities-meet-anthony-carella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2013\/uncommon-personalities-meet-anthony-carella\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Personalities: Meet Anthony Carella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26959 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/anthony_carella.jpg\" alt=\"UncommonGoods Inbound Warehouse Team Lead Anthony Carella\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/anthony_carella.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/anthony_carella-300x375.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><center><em>Anthony Carella, UncommonGoods\u00a0Software Developer<\/em><\/center><strong><br \/>\nMy hometown is\u2026 <\/strong><br \/>\nBrooklyn, NY<\/p>\n<p><strong>My favorite process in the UncommonGoods warehouse is\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\nReturns! It encompasses every aspect of the Inbound operation and requires extreme attention to detail and a vivid understanding of how we do things at UncommonGoods. It also gives me insight as to why customers return our products, and that information is then used to better serve our customers and improve our products and business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019m inspired by\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\nMy wife, my daughter, my family, and my sense of self-confidence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The best gift anyone has given me was\u2026 <\/strong><br \/>\nUnconditional love. I know it sounds cheesy, but sometimes growing up as an only child is rough. My mother, cousins, aunts and uncles were always there for me and provided me with support and compassion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>An uncommon fact about me\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\nDuring my late teens and early 20s, I was a world champion at the video game Dance Dance Revolution. I was on MTV twice, was in a music video, was in a New York\u00a0Magazine article, and have over a million Youtube video views all from me playing Dance Dance Revolution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When I\u2019m not working, I\u2019m probably\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\nPlaying video games, spending time with my wife and daughter, cleaning\/organizing\/straightening something up, collecting permutation puzzles, reading science fiction novels or coding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The word that best describes me\u2026 <\/strong><br \/>\nSketch. This was my nickname for everything growing up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Working at UncommonGoods, I\u2019ve learned\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\nThat your career can change so much without you anticipating it. I went to school for business and accounting, got hired at UncommonGoods to work in the warehouse for the holiday season, and now (a few years later) I am still here and\u00a0a software developer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Would you rather &#8230; Have a lifetime subscription to your favorite magazine OR get to play for free at your favorite arcade for life?<\/strong><br \/>\nI would definitely choose playing for free at my favorite arcade for life. In the \u201880s and \u201890s, arcades were such a prominent part of my generation. My all-time favorite arcade was called Broadway City and it was located in Manhattan, NY. If I were allowed to play all of the games for free, I would lose my mind!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our warehouse team lead Anthony loves teaching his 3-year-old daughter &#8220;nerdy&#8221; things and playing video games. Oh yeah, he&#8217;s also a former Dance Dance Revolution world champion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":26741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1170,1172,1247],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26945"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49897,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26945\/revisions\/49897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}