Embrace your #TrueCalling
As you may have seen on our blog or read about here and here, we’re hiring.
Today we’re taking this effort up a notch and are pleased to show-off our newly minted Skype billboard.
Look out for it at the Embarcadero Exit, Northbound on 101
Now we could wax lyrical here about how great it is to work at Skype, but you either wouldn’t believe us (or, at least have your doubts) or you already know that’s the case. Instead, we want to ask you to share your true calling.
We’ve had a lot of fun talking about what we wanted to be when we grew up, only to realize our “true calling” was in fact something very different. You’d be surprised at how many people wanted to be astronauts but ended up working in marketing with a side of volunteer work.
With that conversation fresh in our minds, we’d like to hear from you. Work or otherwise, tell us via the comments below or @skypedeveloper what your #truecalling is. $5 free credit to the tweet or comment with the most likes or retweets.
For more job information visit our career page or if you’re smart enough, take a stab at breaking the code to find out more:
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My true calling is to be an engineer. To help solve and fix the world’s practical problems? That’s an appealing venture. It takes a lot of effort to get into that position, and engineers aren’t as well respected as they might deserve, but the sense of accomplishment from being one? That’s well worth it.
my #truecalling is to be an Air Traffic Controller, because you make possible that many people can return home safely
my #truecalling was to be a software engineer which i am proud to say i am.
as for the above code i have think i have worked it out. But unfortunately i don’t live in any of the zones so i don’t need to apply it.
Little did I know when I heard Dave call out to HAL, “open the pod bay doors”, in the
science fiction film: 2001: A Space Odyssey, that it would ring true for me. I thought
it was just a bit of make-believe from Hollywood. After all it was truly a coincidence
that each of the letters of HAL’s name immediately preceded those of IBM in the alphabet.
Over the years I put that call on hold as I struggled to make computers do more mundane
things like statistics & invoicing. Finally I got a job with Automate Call Processing,
a company that provides interactive voice response services, you know those touch-tone
phone applications that tell you to press one for this or two for that. The systems were
not very sophisticated by today’s standards but then again it we had almost 15 years
until 2001. In addition to programming computers to speak, I developed the dialog so
callers could get up to the minute sports scores over the phone. Truth is, I got to
play with computers and watch sports, you make the call.