Traveling: So, I’ve been flying around a lot—and I mean a lot. Just two weekends ago, I flew up to Seattle on a business trip, and PT met up with me there, so for the weekend we drove to Vancouver, went up Grousse Mountain, checked out Robson Square and so on. Then, last weekend, I left work on Thursday evening to fly via San Francisco->Los Angeles->London->Duesseldorf to attend one of my best friends’ wedding in my hometown Gelsenkirchen in Germany, only to leave again on Sunday on a Duesseldorf->London->New York City flight, had dinner with PT and Trinity Infinity at Times Square, only to return back to work on Monday morning via a non-stop from New York to San Francisco. Yup, you’ve read it right—I’ve spent a single 3-day weekend in Germany and New York, and next weekend I’ll be in NYC again!
Career decisions: Being in the Valley, it’s quite normal to get emails and phone calls from recruiters from other high-tech companies all the time trying to hire you. I’ve come to gotten used to this and even have a “no-thank-you-I-am-not-interested”-email template/phone script that I use. However, this month I received phone calls from two CEOs of two very successful and well-known Fortune 1000 companies (these are household names) asking me to join their new start-up that putting together. I originally declined, as I generally don’t like the idea of working for startups, but this one was slightly different, as I actually believed in their leadership skills. However, in the end, we chose not to pursue this avenue further, as I convinced them that my skill set wasn’t what they were looking for exactly. This couldn’t have come at worse time anyways, as I am still in school.
School: Alright, so school this semester ain’t too hot. The content of my current class as well as the main teacher’s teaching style is quite boring and unexciting (a first in my Carnegie Mellon academic experience so far!), so I am counting the days until I can start the next class. However, check out who’s on the front cover of our new brochure: