Hello, faithful readers, it’s Jeffrey Lane. I graduated in June from a small high school in Oakland, CA and am headed down to UC San Diego in just a few weeks to begin the next phase of my life. I spent my summer working full-time for Experience in Software, makers of Project KickStart. As an intern at a smaller company like ours, I was something of a jack-of-all-trades. Perhaps you spoke to me on the phone, it’s very possible that you read a promotional email I helped write and just maybe, you’ll soon be benefiting from an idea or two of mine. I think I’ll just keep that one vague for the time being.
I’ve had a couple of jobs before, but this is the first desk job for me. Though I had visited my mom’s office in San Francisco a few times, I wasn’t sure what to expect from this office, given that it was a much smaller company in Berkeley. Would I be a world of suits and ties, corporate lingo and TPS reports? To make a long story short, I wasn’t. Here I sit, clad in jeans and a sweatshirt from my high school lacrosse team, and I have never been lectured about any missing cover sheets. (more…)