Making Your Own Luck

intro: you absolutely can make your own luck, but it may not be worth it..

intro 2 : this is my story of some things i did to help further my own luck in my career and life. While what worked for me may not work for you, and you may have different goals (we’ll get to that!), I hope it is at least an interesting read and maybe contains some useful tips.

//After graduating studies, it becomes clear who wants a stable or traditional job, and who wants the ups and dows of startups. There is nothing wrong with either, // though my interests definitely were with startups and it surprised me how many people didn’t “see” it that way.

Why could i start at netlog?

• talking about performance and RAID arrays.
• programming

arch linux didn’t help me as such

raid arrays, chance to start at netlog. it was pretty great, but also very tough at time.

At the time, my ambition was to achieve greatness in the engineering industry. I felt it was hard to achieve this in the slower Belgian economy.

worst advice ever: “no gaps on resume”. career progression became much slower reached out to probably 200 companies. spent every evening finding companies, from young startups just getting started to big ones (e.g. yelp) mixpanel guys confused.

vimeo 2nd time, had just bought flat and settled in, not great timing, but good way to kickstart career, so another move.

did a lot of interviewing again. my dream job was to join, or co-create a startup, have some equity, work from anywhere, open source, monitoring

about to give up job search, raj reached out

now i’m in the US, but hating NYC want a remote job / travel / island life

… after all that i just want to have a good personal life, work with some fun people, do something meaningful. considering moving back to belgium, they have it pretty nice there.