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nanoman689 · 7 years ago

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One Year in Denver

There comes a time when you realize that even though everything seems to be going ok, that it’s really not. Your friends have been telling you this for awhile but you were pretty sure you could pull it together and make it work out.

That doesn’t always seem to be the case.

Sometimes, despite everything, you need a clean break.

I had moved out of the house in Sunnyvale and I was staying with friends and I got this email from a good friend about a job in Denver. I applied and the boss of the new company called me the next day to fly out that Friday. I delayed it until the following week as that was Mother’s Day and it was a good excuse to take the day off and spend a few days in Denver because why not.

Those of you reading this know the rest of the story.

So it’s been a year now and some things have happened. First off, back in January, the company was sold off. I do understand why it was as the previous owner was starting to get bogged down by running a company and he didn’t really have much marketing experience. I don’t fault him for his decision and he seems happy in his new direction.

The move here has also brought about it some self reflection. Right now I am living alone and it’s not too bad. I’m still meeting some new locals. I can get around most of the area without a map. I know most of the major freeways and streets. I can get home about six different ways depending on traffic conditions. The weather has been nice and I lived though my first snowfall. I have been downtown a few times but I still have yet to do my planned day or weekend. Denver has this Berkley feeling without being so Berkley and Colorado is a very purple state. As much as I see pride flags, I also see lots of big ball trucks,

I have yet to find Denver’s song yet. Every place I have ever lived has a certain song to it. I don’t mean something you’ve heard on the radio or some popular tune. It’s more of a feeling and a mood if that makes sense. This is the first city I’ve ever lived in that I didn’t know much about the area before moving here. At least with San Francisco, I had visited so many times I already knew most of the town before moving there. Denver wasn’t like that. I had only been here for that short trip I made before the interview and that was really about it. So it’s been rather odd and interesting to me to find out what this town has.

I’ve also gotten out of my other slump. I took a number of programming classes and didn’t find many jobs at all and I felt pretty depressed about it but recently started getting into WordPress Development as it fits pretty well into what I do like, which is HTML, CSS and some PHP. I’m not very strong at Javascript and that’s fine. I’m honestly not too worried about it as this point. I can still do some basic things with it and JQuery so I figured maybe with some more experience and time it will start to make more sense.

Part of this decision was that I’m just so tired of this industry. I did try to get out of it when I was in the Bay Area, but I think I had too many things going on that it was hard to get things done. The house I was living in was not very good for my state of well being and now that I’m on my own, my head is a bit more clear. I’ve been doing a lot of self reflection and thinking and it’s been quite good.

Been also noticing that in the past few months that my depression has cleared up a lot. I started seeing on again once the winter months where hitting. I know I have a light case of seasonal depression and I saw a doctor a few times, but recently I have been feeling a lot better. I think part of that it that I’m a bit more financially stable and I have been sticking to my exercise routine. I also do about four to six miles of walking on the weekends now.

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