The app that changed my life
I never thought an application on my phone would ever change my life and honestly it still sounds strange to say.
Let’s start at the beginning
A couple of years ago I started using the app Gowalla (the 50th person to sign up) and I started to explore.
This actually became a favorite pastime for my good friend Ryan and I to do over our lunch breaks and just get out of the office. While using this app I met some awesome people and made a lot of new friends. But that isn’t how the app changed my life, those are just natural things that happen when using a social app. Here’s how the app changed my life…
It all started with a simple checkin
This checkin to be exact:
It was this checkin that spurred a quick conversation about an upcoming family vacation that was coming up and we would be in that area.
Long story short we ended up meeting up for lunch while I was on vacation.
At that led to another checkin at an amazing Sushi place
Now here where the life changing part comes in. Just a couple days after that lunch I received a phone call from Jonathan offering me a position at New Ezra/Style Hatch and by the end of the week I had excepted the position.
How crazy is that!
One small checkin on this app and now I am a front-end developer for an amazing company and moved my whole family from Illinois to California. All because of a checkin on Gowalla.
So say what you will about the app but I have always been a fan and not only got to meet some amazing new friends but now I am continuing to live out my dream in a place I never thought possible.
So for that I thank the entire team at Gowalla and wish you best on your future endeavors.
