my first job out of college - blaming my life on apple computers
On July 21st, 2008 Henriette Weber wrote:
I have talked to a lot of people in tech about this at the recent reboot 10 conference here in Copenhagen.
And I think it's one of the most inspirational things you can know about people, it makes sense to me to actually perspective it into what they are doing now.
Anyway my first job out of college was for apple computers back in 1999. I literally went from my classroom to Cork, Ireland to help build up their european support center which is still located in the same spot today.
This was before Apple Computers where cool! this was when Steve Jobs went back to working at Apple computers ( he did that while I was there)
I even promised myself after troubleshooting mac's in english, danish, swedish, norwegian, french and finnish (!) that I would never get a mac because I deeply thought that the OS sucked ( and it wasn't compatible with windows)..
I am deeply in love with my 2,5 year old macbook pro still ( and that comes from a girl who used to wear a pc laptop out in a year or so.
Both me and Apple has come a long way since then.
And I am deeply convinced that my life would have looked differently if I wouldn't have worked at apple as my first job out of college.
When I got back to Denmark I was literally sucked into a new computer startup and I haven't really worked for anything else than something evolving the internet. It's partly Apple's fault I'm sure.
so what about you - did you first job out of college shape you as much as mine did ?
[reboot, future, cork, ireland, job, college, perspective, apple, recession]
Michael writes:
Yup! My first job out of college was a one year internship at a fantastic workplace in US. I made a friend at that company that was in tune with my ideas of how to create your own job and the rest is history :) http://blogging.gelle.dk/2006/09/13/from-talk-to-action-an-idea-becomes-real
July 22nd, 2008 03:16Vered writes:
Well, I went to law school and then worked as an attorney for a while. HATED it. I am not an attorney anymore. So in a sense, it did teach me a lot about myself. I believe that every experience in life - good or bad - contributes to our personal growth.
July 22nd, 2008 08:51lauramaki writes:
It probably has, all though tecnically I'm not really out of college/university. ;)
July 23rd, 2008 23:42I first got an internship and then a job at European Documentary Network - researching the demand for new media/mobile content, producing seminars and editing their tv financing guide.
As a result I still try to combine my interest for films, new media and event management. I know it's possible... I hope...
Mark Wubben writes:
Isn't it that humans like to get stuck in what they're doing – generally speaking we oppose change. So you get your first job, and you might stick to it, even if you hate it, just because you don't really know an alternative.
July 25th, 2008 03:08Or perhaps you find that you quite enjoy the field, and you stick with it cause you love it!