La Vida Limeña

I wanted to share with you my experience with Uber Peru over the last 2 years.  In January of 2016, after 6 weeks of interviewing with Uber from Atlanta, Georgia, I finally got the job!  I knew that leaving my life behind in the United States was the right thing to do.  I started working for the team from S.F. in February 2016 and spent my first 3 months responding to driver tickets until 11pm (using Google Translate). I still remember my flight from the U.S. to Peru.  On my 1 hour layover in Panama, I got a Whatsapp from my GM to send her data ASAP.  The job was intense to say the least... When I first got to Lima, my GM brought me to the on-boarding center (a tiny space in Barranco) and asked me if I could urgently get to work to fix key issues.  We had 2 experts attending drivers and wait times were above 2 hours on average.  My first job was to hire experts and buy supplies to attend to the drivers.  I had no idea where to buy tables and...

February 2018 Today in my yoga class, my teacher asked us to make an intention.  I thought to myself, stop trying to control things and just let things flow .  Recently with lots of changes, I cling to control because it feels like the only thing that I have power over.  But in trying to control unimportant things like waking up early, my plans for the week, what am I going to eat that doesn’t fuck up my digestive track, I lose the joy of life.  Things that I enjoy like yoga become part of a regimented routine instead of a practice of connection. What I decided this week in meditation after the last few weeks of being upset about Mario leaving to Amsterdam is a feeling of excitement.  So much of life I have experienced new things.  I have lived in new places and faced small challenges like not having friends to just hang out on a Friday night and watch a stupid movie.   At the same time, these new experiences are what make me feel alive b...