Eaton Headquarters in Morges, near Geneva

In September of this year, I began working for Eaton as part of their Marketing Development Program. I am the first person in Europe to work in this position. It is considered to be equivilent to a Marketing Manager position.

I currently have the opportunity to work with a home automation product called Xanura. Part of this product line included the newly released product in the U.S. called Eaton Home HeartBeat.

I wanted to share some pictures of the Morges area, which is located between Geneva and Lausanne, on Lake Geneva. It's a great location to have a European HQ stationed.This picture is looking out of the window facing the Alps. In the distance you can see Mont Blanc, at 4808 metres (15774 ft), on the Italian-French border. While Switzerland can be incredibly beautiful with vineyards everywhere and mountains to climb, it is one of the most expensive countries in Western Europe.

Andreas and I are thinking about our next move, which will be most probably Lausanne, a small city on the other side of the lake from Geneva where there are a number of companies and hopefully opportunities for Andreas. This is also the location of the presitious IMD Business School. My next rotation is more than likely to be in Morges with either the Hydrolics or Truck divisions of Eaton.

Here is a morning picture of Lausanne from one of the nights I spent there. The architecture there is quite different from that in the Netherlands. The people are also quite French, though I feel the people seem a bit more polite.

Morges and Lausanne are located in the French speaking region of Switzerland. If I get a chance to learn French, this will be my 5th try at another language. Learning Dutch is pretty hard right now, though a little easier after learning German. Andreas will just need to brush up on his French, hopefully though, he won't lose his Spanish because of it. We're looking forward to seeing what Switzerland can offer us.