Missionary Letters To Jon

Hi Jon - It was nice to talk with you on Monday. Now that I am working, I will commonly be in meetings on Monday afternoons and may not be available to chat. So maybe when you get online, ping me on Google Hangouts chat and tell me the time period you are available and then I can call you when my meeting is over. We may also have to cut our calls short to 5 minutes or something like that so I'm not out of the office for very long. I started my job on Monday and it's about exactly like what I expected. The technology is very cool and exciting. My boss is very nice and so incredibly smart I'm going to learn a ton from him. The CEO is very charismatic and driven which of course is good and bad. I saw him speak in front a classroom of college students this week and he did an amazing job. After his tech talk there was a career fair and we had a line of 50 students waiting in front of the Banjo booth. Some of the students say they have internships lined up but would happily d...

Hi Jon! Sorry I haven't written to you in a few weeks but I've been on the road the whole time. I start my new job on Monday and it's been pretty hard to think of quitting my life of leisure and doing something new. You cannot believe how incredibly bored I got doing nothing for a year and a half! Everybody dreams of travelling the world, binge-watching Netflix, reading a ton of books they've never had time to read, and re-watching their entire movie collection. I've done all of that and more but eventually it all loses its luster and you end up coming home after crossfit every morning thinking what am I going to do today. While I was on sabbatical I honed my programming skills, learned some new things, took some online classes, coded and entire software platform I thought Adobe might want to use, went on a ton of vacations and camping trips, backpacked countless miles and climbed a ton of mountain peaks, spent weeks on end in the Tetons, kayaked 100+ miles wi...