A lot has happened in the past week. Last Sunday I was on my way to San Francisco for an interview and I'm now (a week later) in DFW on my way to SF after accepting an internship position at a tech startup. I'll miss my friends and family in Alabama but I'm incredibly blessed to be able to be doing cool and interesting work while pursuing other ideas and opportunities in the tech center of the world. This post is going to be short but hopefully I'll have the time to write up something after I find a place and am able to move in (hopefully in the next week or two).
Stay Focused. Stay Faithful.
-cp
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Leaving My Job to Do What I Love
A lot can change in a year's time. A year ago I had just finished my undergrad in CS and decided to take a month off before plunging into the corporate world. I realized how valuable this time was after beginning to string together a proof of concept for my idea around two weeks before graduation. So I got to work and used the several weeks to start pursuing this complex idea that I had for my web app and began scouring StackOverflow and other random sites for tutorials on django. Banging away at my keyboard, I began doing some of my first significant web development and began to understand the appeal and satisfaction that comes with making something great to put into people's hands.
A year has gone by and the long struggle of trying to make time to work on a promising side project and the insatiable hunger to spend every moment while not working a 40 hr/week job in embedded development has led me to pursue web development full on. Fittingly, I've decided to leave my job to pursue other projects and ideas that I'm passionate about. It's been my dream for quite some time for me to be able to pursue an idea that I enjoy working on and has the potential to impact people on a daily basis. I'm not sure at the moment where I'll be in the future but I know what I want to be doing.
As cliche as it may sound, I think the inspirational note that is left on all new Apple employees' desks says it best:
"There's work and there's your life's work. The kind of work that has your fingerprints all over it. The kind of work that you'd never compromise on. That you'd sacrifice a weekend for. People don't come here to play it safe. They come here to swim in the deep end. They want their work to add up to something. Something big."
Without a doubt, I've learned a great deal in the past year. I've become somewhat familiar with the startup scene, venture capital (what it is and how it actually works), and really learning how to consolidate the description of an idea down to something that people can understand (and reading Hacker News is always a plus). I'm not quite as naive as the one year ago me but certainly am still as optimistic and as driven.
There's so much more that I could talk about which has happened in the past year but I'll leave some of that for another post.
Be focused. Be faithful.
-cp
A year has gone by and the long struggle of trying to make time to work on a promising side project and the insatiable hunger to spend every moment while not working a 40 hr/week job in embedded development has led me to pursue web development full on. Fittingly, I've decided to leave my job to pursue other projects and ideas that I'm passionate about. It's been my dream for quite some time for me to be able to pursue an idea that I enjoy working on and has the potential to impact people on a daily basis. I'm not sure at the moment where I'll be in the future but I know what I want to be doing.
As cliche as it may sound, I think the inspirational note that is left on all new Apple employees' desks says it best:
"There's work and there's your life's work. The kind of work that has your fingerprints all over it. The kind of work that you'd never compromise on. That you'd sacrifice a weekend for. People don't come here to play it safe. They come here to swim in the deep end. They want their work to add up to something. Something big."
Without a doubt, I've learned a great deal in the past year. I've become somewhat familiar with the startup scene, venture capital (what it is and how it actually works), and really learning how to consolidate the description of an idea down to something that people can understand (and reading Hacker News is always a plus). I'm not quite as naive as the one year ago me but certainly am still as optimistic and as driven.
There's so much more that I could talk about which has happened in the past year but I'll leave some of that for another post.
Be focused. Be faithful.
-cp
Saturday, February 4, 2012
let there be blog
Well, I've finally decided to just put up a blog on blogspot rather than putting up and paying for the one that I had created in rails with Engine Yard (which by the way is awesome, and I would suggest to anyone looking into rails development and wanting easy deployment of their apps). I may eventually get around to linking this blog up to my site and just making it static but we'll see (quite busy at the moment). Time to put up some interesting accounts and ideas on this internet (thanks, Al Gore).
-cp
-cp
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