So Much Wit

I’m thrilled say that today I accepted a job at Apple. I’ll be writ­ing soft­ware as a mem­ber of a small inter­nal devel­oper tools team, help­ing to make iPads and iPhones even more awe­some. I’m just beside myself with how great I think this all is.

It’s funny how things can change. A month ago I was think­ing that I’d be in San Diego for at least another six months, likely longer. I thought if I’d be leav­ing at all, it would only be under the con­di­tion that I was able to keep my cur­rent job and work remote. I thought maybe I’d go back to Davis and use a café as my office. I thought that sounded pretty nice.

Then I got an email from a friend I hadn’t talked to in years, some­one I’d taken a soft­ware engi­neer­ing class with at UC Davis. He’s been work­ing at Apple since he grad­u­ated, and he thought I’d be great for a posi­tion they were try­ing to fill. Two weeks later I was up in Cuper­tino slog­ging through an inter­view marathon; a week after that I had a job offer.

I’m going to be in San Diego for about six more weeks. Then I’ll be in Cuper­tino — tem­porar­ily at least. I’ll have some time to decide where I actu­ally want to live. Much as I don’t like the thought of a 90-​​mile daily com­mute, the idea of get­ting a stu­dio in San Fran­cisco seems pretty great right now. Apple runs wifi-​​equipped shut­tles for peo­ple who don’t want to live in Cuper­tino, which means the daily two-​​hour drive wouldn’t be time wasted. And I’m so sick of being in South­ern Cal­i­for­nia that being back in a city I know, liv­ing near friends again, sounds pretty damn good.

It’s awful weird, sud­denly get­ting the chance to do a few things I’ve always wanted to do: work at Apple, make money pro­gram­ming with Objective-​​C, and live in San Fran­cisco. I feel like I got a golden ticket, except instead of buy­ing a stu­pid candy bar, I had to spend a decade or so get­ting good at some­thing. In any event, I feel extremely god­dam for­tu­nate, and I’m excited to see what comes next.