Rough Draft

One Year Later

One year ago today I began working at Apple. w00t! Oddly enough though right now I'm back home in PA on vacation.

I can't imagine being any happier with my work life. Apple is a great place to work, and the Soundtrack Pro team is an awesome group of people. It's certainly been a lot of hard work over the past year, but when you finally get to go out and show off your product and find out that people love it, all the hard work is worth it.

And stealing from Josh's post on his one year anniversary at IBM a passage from Paul Graham's Hacker's and Painters (highly recommended to everyone, even non geeks):

'Many people feel confused and depressed in their early twenties. Life seemed so much more fun in college. Well, of course it was. Don't be fooled by the surface similarities. You've gone from guest to servant. It's possible to have fun in this new world. Among other things, you now get to go behind the doors that say "authorized personnel only." But the change is a shock at first, and all the worse if you're not consciously aware of it.'

Do I miss college? Sure, though much more-so the people than the classes. And that's not to say that I am not having a great time living in CA. Things are just different.