Sleepless in Seattle:
It took me 2400 miles and 6 days to get to
Seattle from Ann Arbor. Driving between 6000 feet and the sea level I went
through areas with 100 degrees Fahrenheit (in Billing Montana) to 25 degrees
Fahrenheit (in Butte up on the Rocky Mountains).
The company gave my family and me an
amazing apartment in the downtown Seattle, 50 yards from the water line, 5 minutes’
walk from every major attraction and amazing marketplace that opens also on
weekdays.
I think I can say for sure that in the last
5 days since I got to town I did at least 15 miles of unplanned routs just
because I keep missing the right turns or lanes on the road.
As I wrote before, I’m interning with the
Lync team for the business planning group. I work on a new and excited product
that our brilliant engineers develop in order to assess its business
opportunities.
Since my building is on the edge of the
beautiful Microsoft campus, you could even see some deers walking around the
building during daylight.
I believe that the hardest thing for me now
is being away for so long from my wife and kids, but I keep telling myself that
they will be here in less than two weeks.
Going back to the workplace – they put me
in a huge room of me own – I believe it is around 6x6 foot big, but with no one
else around. As a former engineer (although I believe that the ‘engineer’ in me
would never leave) I used to be in the same room with at least one more
engineer, and the work itself was much more fun and more productive. Maybe the
business planners who need to talk to customers should have more quiet, but I
prefer as much interactions with other human-beings as possible.
Tomorrow I will go to try my first hike
around Seattle – hopefully I won’t run into much rain (which is pretty common
here).
Till next time,
Good luck guys
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