I’m really excited to start my new job in Hawaii!
While I wasn’t looking to leave San Francisco, a very unique opportunity presented itself, and that opportunity requires me to temporarily relocate to Honolulu. I’ll be working at a Hawaii-based startup company that was started by my PhD thesis co-advisor and some of her colleagues a few months ago. The company is working to make a product out of the technology that I worked on for 6 years during my PhD project and she has worked on for a total of 10 years. Since I’ve invested so much time and effort in this technology already, I’m really excited to be a part of making it into a useful product that can help people! Also, because I have so much experience in this technology, I get to have significantly more strategic input and I get to have more of a leadership role than I could at another company at this point in my career. After a long period of deliberation, Scott and I decided the potential benefits from me taking this opportunity outweigh the sacrifice that we have to make, despite the inherent risk involved in working at a startup company.
I fly to Hawaii on Wednesday morning, April 2, and I’ll start work as soon as I land. For now I’ll be sharing a beautiful house in the hills above Honolulu with the woman who owns the house. The house is beautifully decorated, has a lot of outdoor space, and has beautiful views of Honolulu, Waikiki, the ocean, and the mountains – check out some pictures here. I’m not sure when my first trip back to San Francisco is, but I expect to be working from the Bay Area for about a week a month, and I’ll update this blog to let you know when I’ll be in which location. You can still reach me at the same cell phone number, e-mail address, and IM as you have in the past – I’ll just be 3 time zones further West when I’m in HI. Scott will continue to be based in San Francisco – we’re moving to a new apartment in the city in mid-April.
I’ll be updating this blog to let you all know how my life is going in Hawaii – working at the startup, learning to surf, hiking, snorkeling, diving, and exploring a new city (assuming I’m not spending all my time working at the startup). Check back often for updates! Let me know if your travels bring you to Hawaii!
