There’s the overall “move to Portland and start at my awesome new job” Project, which is coming along well. A friend and I drove here from Ohio (pretty much across the entire country) in a little over two days. We drove because I have a very old dog that I didn’t want to fly. My POD arrives tomorrow, and I’m excited to have all my things back in my possession (I didn’t bring any nice shirts or sweaters with me, so I’ve been feeling slovenly-ish), but I am NOT excited for having to unpack and move furniture.
More specifically, I’m working on helping to launch the Beekeeper program at Beeminder. If you want to read more about that you can read this blog post we just released on the subject.
Personal-life-wise, I’ve just started on the “find my tribe here” Project, which I don’t like. I like HAVING a tribe (and very much miss the awesome group I left in Columbus), but actually having to go out and either find one or put one together sounds like less fun.
Personal-life-wise, I’ve just started on the “find my tribe here” Project, which I don’t like. I like HAVING a tribe (and very much miss the awesome group I left in Columbus), but actually having to go out and either find one or put one together sounds like less fun.
A bit of directed social networking won’t go astray. Collect contacts. Socialise with intent. Become a social supernode: the person who knows all the social nodes. It’s fun being able to collide people’s worlds.
Thanks for the input! I think I wasn’t clear though. I actually already am a networky type person (the tribe I am leaving behind is one that I did most of the work building) with high social skills.
However, I am ALSO extremely picky in who I’ll allow into my close social circle (I have well thought out reasons for this). That means to start a new tribe I’ll have to meet LOTS and LOTS of people just to find one that I consider to be worth my time. When I already have a group, then I don’t have to be overly proactive about this because there’s no particular rush, so I can just pull in people as I come across them. However when I’m starting with zero, I’m in a bit of a rush, and therefore have to plan going to various events with lots of people I don’t know and meet them all, and find most of them boring, or assholes, or unable to logic, or unable to social, or whatnot, and those are the people I have to go through over and over in order to find a single person who I’d actually want to be friends with. And as much as I HAVE social skills, I am also an introvert at core, and so find the idea to be draining (especially right now, when I’m already emotionally drained from moving!). This is not a massive problem, and I can easily overcome the draininess, but I still recognize that it is what I will struggle the most with in the next couple months. :)
There’s the overall “move to Portland and start at my awesome new job” Project, which is coming along well. A friend and I drove here from Ohio (pretty much across the entire country) in a little over two days. We drove because I have a very old dog that I didn’t want to fly. My POD arrives tomorrow, and I’m excited to have all my things back in my possession (I didn’t bring any nice shirts or sweaters with me, so I’ve been feeling slovenly-ish), but I am NOT excited for having to unpack and move furniture.
More specifically, I’m working on helping to launch the Beekeeper program at Beeminder. If you want to read more about that you can read this blog post we just released on the subject.
Personal-life-wise, I’ve just started on the “find my tribe here” Project, which I don’t like. I like HAVING a tribe (and very much miss the awesome group I left in Columbus), but actually having to go out and either find one or put one together sounds like less fun.
A bit of directed social networking won’t go astray. Collect contacts. Socialise with intent. Become a social supernode: the person who knows all the social nodes. It’s fun being able to collide people’s worlds.
Thanks for the input! I think I wasn’t clear though. I actually already am a networky type person (the tribe I am leaving behind is one that I did most of the work building) with high social skills.
However, I am ALSO extremely picky in who I’ll allow into my close social circle (I have well thought out reasons for this). That means to start a new tribe I’ll have to meet LOTS and LOTS of people just to find one that I consider to be worth my time. When I already have a group, then I don’t have to be overly proactive about this because there’s no particular rush, so I can just pull in people as I come across them. However when I’m starting with zero, I’m in a bit of a rush, and therefore have to plan going to various events with lots of people I don’t know and meet them all, and find most of them boring, or assholes, or unable to logic, or unable to social, or whatnot, and those are the people I have to go through over and over in order to find a single person who I’d actually want to be friends with. And as much as I HAVE social skills, I am also an introvert at core, and so find the idea to be draining (especially right now, when I’m already emotionally drained from moving!). This is not a massive problem, and I can easily overcome the draininess, but I still recognize that it is what I will struggle the most with in the next couple months. :)
Any advice for someone who might be moving from the east coast to the west in the next year and a half?