A place to work, with purpose

For a long time now I've been trying to figure out how my job and my personal interests (passions) can  match up. Starting as as kernel developer in the '90s, it seemed like my work never really made a difference in peoples lives. Sure I got the kernel memory allocator to run 10% faster and it improved a benchmark by 1.5%, but what did it really do to better people? When I cam to Sun I started with the Solaris Install team, thinking that install is the first experience that a user will have with the operating system. Again we did some great things, some really hard things (like upgrading from Solaris 2.2 to 2.5), but again I did not have the satisfaction of really helping people. As time has gone on, I've thought less of how to impact other people, at work, and looked to helping through other channels. Like leading Alpha classes, working on Habitat for Humanity projects, and helping my my kids sports teams.

Last week after the StorageTek announcement. Scott McNealy came to our Broomfield campus for a town hall meeting. There he spent time talking about his new passion of eliminating the digital divide. Something in his words, emotion and energy really struck me. How cool is it that Sun is thinking about how to really help the rest of the world. I'm excited about the possibilities and even more excited that I'm working for a company that want to innovate, share and help!


Posted by Jeff Cheeney [Sun] ( June 08, 2005 10:30 AM ) Permalink | Comments[0]