The Next Job
Today is my last day at joost. It has been a great ride. It gave me the opportunity to work with some amazing people. The work has been challenging and I think we achieved a lot. After my little break at the beginning of the year I came back to fix some of the lose ends. Now that this is done it’s time to move on. So I am officially on the job market as of today. But I feel no rush. While I have a couple of freelance jobs lined up that will surely keep me busy for a quite a bit, learning and exploring more new things is also on the schedule.
So what do I want to do?
There are many things that I am interested in. Ranging from Mac/iPhone development to scalable backend architectures – and so much more. But the main point is that is that I want a job that gets me excited. Not just another job in technology X. To quote a friend who has also recently been searching
the job needs to be something that I feel passionate about, something that I want my name publicly associated with and something that I feel I can invest time and energy to make a strong impact and feel proud about. And I need to be properly compensated for it. In this order, but all pieces are important.
I couldn’t have said it better. That’s the job where you get the best value for the money out of me. On top of this there are a few things to consider.
I don’t plan to relocate outside of Germany any time soon. Happy to travel – but chances are very low one can lure me into more. I am fine working remotely. Have done this for years. Either as part of the job and/or through open source. Still I would always prefer to have my team close by. Talking about teams. Small and agile would be great. Technical team lead my current position of choice – but not a requirement.
While I already have a few interesting offers I will take my time to see what’s next. If you think you might have a suitable opening – feel free to contact me via email or talk to me directly. I’ll be around during ApacheCon for example.