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> all my coworkers were nice, normal, fairly geeky engineers who really loved technology. I spent a few years living in SF. I think the geek monoculture kind o
by eshvk 11y ago
> all my coworkers were nice, normal, fairly geeky engineers who really loved technology.
I spent a few years living in SF. I think the geek monoculture kind of drove me away. I accidentally fell into tech via math and felt like there was this pressure to conform to this image of a "nerdy engineer". No, I don't obsess about board games or comic books or the latest Japanese cartoons. I kind of get why someone likes them but it gets overwhelming.
Another thing that got annoying was how everyone kept going on and on about tech everywhere. Again, maybe things are different in the South Bay, but SF felt like a flurry of Coffee shops filled with folks talking about Ruby, Haskell and Data Science.
I still remember sitting in a Coffee Shop after I interviewed at my current company in NYC. I overheard a brief conversation between two girls about Python. The fact that they meant the reptile and not the language kind of sealed the deal for me.
- nostrademons 11y agoNah, South Bay is like that too, perhaps even moreso. I fit in perfectly - that's the type of environment I've wanted since childhood (although I'm a bit turned off by the posturing-wantrepreneur scene...I just avoid it though). It's a bit tougher for my fiancee, who doesn't care about anything tech-related and is much more the social do-gooder type. Even she's found her own crowd though. There are 8.6M people in the Bay Area - if you look hard enough, it's not that hard to find ones that aren't in tech.