I worked at the LinkedIn offices in Mountain View after I'd taken some courses in technical writing and was committed to get going on a real career. A friend who worked there helped get me an interview, and I ended up with this group that was trying to get a new project off the ground. We were isolated in a little corner of the office on the third floor and...
I did tech support for VMware for a while a little over a year ago. It was Ross who found the job for me, and the thing is that I was in no shape to work full-time and interact with the public like that. I tried to explain this to Ross but he told me that it was time that I got my act together again. The thing is that I never remember a time when I did have...
This is a story you have to hear about a company named Constant Contact, which a friend of mine named Getty worked at for a couple of years before he went off to one of the big financial firms on Wall Street. Getty's in bad shape now. He lost his job after the big meltdown in 2008 and now he's in a hospital where they have to make sure that he doesn't harm...
I started working for LinkedIn Corporation after I moved down to San Jose. I had grown up in San Francisco and had lived there for my entire life, except for four years spent in Berkeley. The thing is that I would say that I was getting tired of the place, and maybe that would make sense. But the fact is that living there was beginning to make me feel...
I spent a few days in Lancaster before heading back to Columbus. I had a client out there that needed tending to, but I resolved that issue in an afternoon. I merely felt the urge to linger for a while.
I called Bev from my motel room to let her know that I was going to be longer than expected. "This guy, he thinks we're not giving him enough attention, "...
