sucks right now
Am having to reset my expectations re immediately finding great work here. Have been caught in the perfect storm of economic downturn, election and thanksgiving/christmas. Startups have been told by their VC’s to freeze everything until the future is clearer, and bigger companies are laying off in expectation of the recession. Not the best time to lob into town looking for a cool job. I’ve had 3 or 4 companies tell me they’d be keen to hire me in Q1 which is nice, but I don’t want to wait around. I’m starting to view this Qtr as a write off, and focus on Q1.
The only worse thing would be to take a sucky job.
I’ve also been taking to opportunity to deeply reflect what I want to do. There is a need to specialize here, as the industry is so large. I have really enjoyed the ability to be a generalist in APAC, using both my sales and tech skills regularly to the best of my ability. There are technical and mgmt roles here that just don’t exist in APAC. There is the VC market which can back great startup ideas (well, not right now) and there is a fantastic study opportunity with Stanford & Berkeley right here.
Obviously in the short term I’m most keen to take what I know & do well, (selling mobile services to carriers) and jump into the local industry, but the longer term is far more interesting….
