Ask a Communications Pro with Eugene Knapik from Canada Post Eugene Knapik is a communications renaissance man.  In addition to his work as Manager Media Relations for Canada Post , he's also a mixed media artist/painter, active tweeter ( @Eugene_CanPost ) and all around cool guy.  He was kind enough to answer some questions for Hey Receiver, and gives us some great insight and advice about being a communications pro. What drew you to work in media relations? I didn't come to the media relations field in the normal way. I'm a long time employee of Canada Post. I started in 1986, working part time in a postal plant to support my art habit. I've done an assortment of jobs over the years for Canada Post. One of the great things this company has offered me has been the opportunity to reinvent myself from time to time. I have an extensive background in mail operations -- I've been a clerk, supervisor, a superintendent. I ran the largest shift of the largest parcel processing facility in the country for 3 years. Then somehow or another I reinvented myself as an in-house ERP consultant. I worked on two major integration software projects. On one I documented business processes and developed automated forms, and on another I became a training developer. From there it seemed like a natural jump to the communications field. I began by doing employee communications work and over the years more and more media relations work came my way.