opencomponentry

For a long time now I’ve very badly wanted to work for the goog, but my physical location(washington d.c.) has pretty much elminated that possibility. The recruiters have made it very clear that working for google means moving to CA. It’s such torture looking around at work in this area and hearing about all the fun things the google engineers are working on - like Android (have I mentioned that I have some experience with arm based linux systems?..). I mean wtf, who else is working on as many even remotely interesting things as they are?

This assumes of course that they would even hire me, which is just another small torture to live with. Don’t get me wrong, I like CA and everything. I did spend a few years in that general area and grew up in southern ca…It’s the wife and family thing. Not that I don’t like her parents, they just don’t happen to currently be interested in moving to CA and so here we are.

I did recently discover that Sergey actually grew up in the same area - even attended a montessori school like my daughter does. Don’t his parents miss him hanging out over in CA so much? Aren’t you worried that the mild CA climate is making you soft? Not that the winters have been very wintery here for a few years anyways..

There are certainly enough engineers here to start a small / modest development group of some sort isn’t there? Maybe we can rent a single small room in a shared office space as the start of the new google d.c. group? I’m not picky.

Well anyways, back to work. I hear there are lots of fun jobs working for the government or various research groups. (shudders)