A Mixture of Passion and Despair

The Market street is a sign of SF for passion - lots of successful startups (Uber, Twitter, Square, etc.) and their young engineers. Tall buildings stand aside each other, forming a prosperous scene that contrast deeply with the homeless men scattered around the street. The smell of the street is complicated - a blended one with perfume and evaporated urine.

Today is the end day of Uberversity, Uber's training for new hands. Usually, one's passion for technology will die out if s/he does not immediate progress, and that is the dangerous point. Lucky is that I did learn GO, a new and interesting language; however, there are still some part of my work that is not quite organized and appears randomly changing.

Before exciting progress is made, stay passionate.

Uberversity

Today is my first day at Uber. Regularly, it is training sessions after training sessions. Now I learnt that Uber is not a Cab company, not (only) a rider/driver company, but it targets something much larger. It is a tech-company for sure, with its current focus on scaling its software applications.

I was a bit tired today because I was fully loaded with all the new information. I tried to find something unrelated to do, so after work hours I went to shop at Safeway and Ross. They are not too far away. It looks like SF is composed by a lot of smaller blocks. Cherries are cheap this time. I also bought two pairs of slippers at Ross. With shoes on my feet I felt much more comfortable in my room.

SF is also a city with steep difference between the rich and the poor. Homeless men are nearly everywhere, as a huge contrast to the prosperous city. When I was adding gas a man offered to clean my window, just for some change. I feel bad to reject him. But when I came back for him, he already found his clients, which made me feel somewhat better.

A busy night with a lot to do. Life is never easy when you want to learn more stuff, yet that is also the happiest thing on the world. The most pathetic thing is one cannot learn anything but waste time.

The Zeroth Day

June 21st, 2015, I am finally at San Francisco, sunny and windy. Settled down at a SF-ish sharing room with several roommates, I feel half home. It is close to Uber, the company I will work for in the next 3 months.

SF is a crowded city, and it is hard to find parking anywhere. I rent out a parking lot and start to walk. My first dinner here is Waruku, a Japanese Ramen restaurant, which is tasty. After a quick tour around, I wrote down my first post at this city.

Good night, the Bay.