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 [![image](http://www.mayerdan.com/assets/img/Offgrid-Tanzania/Dan-Roof-Install-2-md.JPG)](http://www.mayerdan.com/assets/img/Offgrid-Tanzania/Dan-Roof-Install-2.JPG)
 
-Some folks have asked about how I ended up at a job like [Off Grid Electric](https://medium.com/@Offgrid). I thought, I would share a bit of that. I recently took a sabbatical to travel for about 5 months with my wife. While I was traveling, I was thinking about my career, the future, what is important to me. I felt like I hadn't been pushing myself enough lately, and I had lost some of the passion I always liked to bring into my work. 
+Some folks have asked about how I ended up at a job like [Off Grid Electric](https://medium.com/@Offgrid). I thought I would share a bit of that. I recently took a sabbatical to travel for about 5 months with my wife. While I was traveling, I was thinking about my career, the future, what is important to me. I felt like I hadn't been pushing myself enough lately, and I had lost some of the passion I always liked to bring into my work. 
 
 ### TL;DR
 
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 > Climbing onto a roof to install solar panels
 
-For awhile, I had been a bit stuck in an echo chamber of dev tools, consumer startups, and incremental improvements on social communications. I was only thinking about how I could work on my career to solve problems within those communities. When I looked outside of the communities I was involved in, I found that all the issues I found most important in the world to be outside of my current focuses. I wanted to help solve big problems, I knew I was passionate about. I wanted to avoid worry about a tech quote that resonates a bit too loudly on occasion.
+For awhile, I had been a bit stuck in an echo chamber of dev tools, consumer startups, and incremental improvements on social communications. While there is cool working going on there, I was a bit burnt out on it. I was only thinking about how I could work on my career to solve problems within those communities. When I looked outside of the communities I was involved in, I realized all the issues I found most important in the world to be outside of my current focuses. I wanted to help solve big problems, I knew I was passionate about. I wanted to avoid the often joked about tech quote that resonates a bit too loudly on occasion.
 
 > "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." --[Former Facebook dev & Cloudera co-founder Jeff Hammerbacher](http://www.fastcompany.com/3008436/takeaway/why-data-god-jeffrey-hammerbacher-left-facebook-found-cloudera)
 
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 # Investing Your Time
 
-There are great ways, to support problems you care about, but in the end support often comes down to time or money. While I don't have lots of money to invest in these important issues, like [Bill Gates dedicating to invest $1 billion clean energy](http://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/Energy-Innovation), I can invest my time, I can make working on these hard problems a part of my career path. A long career dedicated to working on big problems, seemed like a good way to help focus my direction for the future.
+There are great ways to support problems you care about, but in the end support often comes down to time or money. While I don't have lots of money to invest in these important issues, like [Bill Gates dedicating to invest $1 billion clean energy](http://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/Energy-Innovation), I can invest my time, I can make working on these hard problems a part of my career path. A long career dedicated to working on big problems, seemed like a good way to help focus my direction for the future.
 
-I started to think that many of the best engineers, I know work at a cross section of engineering and knowing another domain extremely well. I decided I could look for work where I could leverage my software skills while learning more about a big issue I am passionate about improving. These thoughts were still forming in my head as we travel around.
+I started to think that many of the best engineers I know work at a cross section of engineering and knowing another domain extremely well. I decided I could look for work where I could leverage my software skills while learning more about a big issue I am passionate about improving. These thoughts were still forming in my head as we travel around.
 
 Around that time I started to come across a post on my social media. I must have seen it three or four times before I decided it was something I needed to follow up on. I do know that [Micah](http://learntoduck.net/), whom I had know through [@techstars](http://www.techstars.com/) had posted the job to Facebook. His post was the final push to motivate me to finally click through and contact [@Off Grid Electric](https://twitter.com/offgride). The job post really seemed to be a great fit for what I was looking for, [a dream job for someone who loves adventure](https://medium.com/electric-africa/a-dream-job-for-someone-who-loves-adventure-d256b8d21a97).
 
 # Know What You Want 
 
-After a bit of time talking with [Thor Muller](https://twitter.com/tempo), it became clear that Off Grid Electric, also satisfied other parts of a job I find important.
+After a bit of time talking with [Thor Muller](https://twitter.com/tempo), it became clear that Off Grid Electric also satisfied other parts of a job I find important.
 
 * We are a small highly distributed software team (US, Nigeria, Tanzania, Russia).
 * We allow remote workers
 * We are driven by a mission, which I find personally compelling
 * Flexible and Travel friendly work
 * I wanted to work on a project with international components
 * While technology is important it is just one tool to solve problems
-* Long term position, I want to invest time in a company and be able to grow with it.
+* A long term position - I want to invest time in a company and be able to grow with it.
 * An opportunity to work closely with end users
 
 The list really goes on, there was a lot to make everything seem right to me. It is good to take some time and reflect deeply on what you want, and what you want to be doing X years from now. Then find a path that can take you in that direction. I feel fortunate to have found that role.
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 Look cool? More photos from my recent [work trip to Tanzania](https://goo.gl/photos/4vqLQMisFRjPJ1jQA). 
 
-# Singing your Tune? We're Hiring
+# Singing your tune? We're Hiring
 
 I know other folks that are looking to make changes. If this is the kind of work that speaks to you, ping me I would love to chat. feel free to reach out over email (danmayer<at>gmail) or twitter [@danmayer](http://twitter.com/danmayer). 
 
-### Open Engineering Positions at Off Grid Electric
+### Open Development Positions [@OffGrid](https://medium.com/@Offgrid)
 
 * [Lead Android Engineer](https://medium.com/electric-africa/lead-android-engineer-d35e149745e3)
 
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 ### Not your thing?
 
-Obviously, my current gig, won't speak to everyone. If your looking for a change, I should also give a shout out to [@livingsocialeng](https://twitter.com/livingsocialeng).
+Obviously, the gig won't be for everyone. If your looking for a change, I should also give a shout out to [@livingsocialeng](https://twitter.com/livingsocialeng).
 
-Like a bigger team, more interested in consumer facing sites, [LivingSocial is Hiring](http://jobs.livingsocial.com/careers/departments/engineering-software-development/), and is has many brilliant focus working on big engineering challenges. I am not kidding, when it is frequently described by developers past and present as the best job they have ever had.
+Like a bigger team, more interested in consumer products at scale, [LivingSocial is Hiring](http://jobs.livingsocial.com/careers/departments/engineering-software-development/), and is has many brilliant focus working on big engineering challenges. I am not kidding, when it is frequently described by developers past and present as the best job they have ever had.
 
-If neither interests you, but your looking for something else feel free to get in touch. I know various teams trying to pick up Ruby, Clojure, and Mobile devs.
+If neither interests you, but your looking for something else feel free to get in touch. I know various teams trying to pick up Ruby, Clojure, and Mobile devs.
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+[![image](http://www.mayerdan.com/assets/img/Offgrid-Tanzania/Arusha-Park-Dan-Thor-Waterfall-sm.jpg)](http://www.mayerdan.com/assets/img/Offgrid-Tanzania/Arusha-Park-Dan-Thor-Waterfall.jpg)