February 17, 2018
It's been a while since I've had a life/career related post so let's catch you up:
- At the end of February 2018, I launched Find Work
- There were some sales/partnership prospects but they fell through
- Continued to develop features as I started a job search
- By the end of March 2018, I decided to commit to a full-time job search
- It was hard to context switch between features, processing job listings, and handling interviews/phone screens
- At this point, I decided to move back to San Francisco and put in my lease cancellation notice
- It was too exhausting to move to an unfamiliar city again with a chance of not liking it
- I was open to living in San Francisco, Chicago, or Tokyo
- San Francisco: Culture is supportive and tech oriented
- Chicago: Friendly people with great communities and lots of artistic expression
- Tokyo: Fun and enjoyable people and culture
- Practically speaking though, San Francisco was the only long term option
- Tokyo: Uncertain of Japanese working culture and lifestyle permanently
- Chicago: Winters would become unbearable
- One trade-off to SF is there's less artistic creativity expressed
- Up to this point, the job search was moving slowly/frustratingly for a few reasons
- Being in Portland and flying to onsites in San Francisco, typically means 1 to 2 weeks lead time
- I was often very relaxed in interviews which meant I didn't fully engage/seem excited despite honestly being so
- I only got this insight towards the end of my search
- At the end of April 2018, I left Portland and moved back to San Francisco
- From late May through late July, I contracted at Verbling, an online language tutor marketplace
- In late July, I accepted an offer and started full-time at Standard Cyborg, a 3D CAD tool for prosthetics and orthotics
- I've remained at Standard Cyborg since then (7 months so far) and really enjoy it there
Outside of that, I've been doing a lot less open source; trying to find a work-life balance instead of a work-open source-life balance
As a visualization, here's my most active time period versus now:
Anyway, that's all the life/career updates I have for now
We now return to your regularly/irregularly scheduled programming blog posts