Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Google's coming to town!
Ok, besides the fact that it would seem Google has taken over BlogSpot (I just noticed that now!) Google has announced they are opening up a facility nearby in Lenoir, North Carolina!
Woo Hoo! I checked their website for job listings, but nothing yet. They have to build it first I think, so it may be a while. But I emailed them just to check to find out when :whistle: ;-)
A tech job at Google would be sooooooooooooo much betterer than I'm doing now at the paper. Money aside, I'd be dealing with a computer farm, and not irate subscribers who haven't received their paper since Christmas, and not Sales reps who have forgotten the definition of "deadline".
I had such a day today, to top off several weeks of such days, I made no bones about the fact that Google will be hiring soon. :-p And a lot of them know my background is with computers.
Can you imagine? Most folks around here aren't used to making much more than minimum wage. Apparently the "average wage" at Google is over $48K per year, plus benefits. Honestly, that's more than twice what I make now. But still less than what I was making at my last job at JDE in Toronto. Near the end there I didn't much like the job anymore, but the $50+K per year and 4 weeks vacation almost made up for it. ;-)
Well, we'll see how quickly Google gets built. I may go completely round the bend by then and end up in Broughton. (the local loony bin).
House isn't on tonight. Stoopid state of the union address. bleah. ¶ 9:07 PM
Woo Hoo! I checked their website for job listings, but nothing yet. They have to build it first I think, so it may be a while. But I emailed them just to check to find out when :whistle: ;-)
A tech job at Google would be sooooooooooooo much betterer than I'm doing now at the paper. Money aside, I'd be dealing with a computer farm, and not irate subscribers who haven't received their paper since Christmas, and not Sales reps who have forgotten the definition of "deadline".
I had such a day today, to top off several weeks of such days, I made no bones about the fact that Google will be hiring soon. :-p And a lot of them know my background is with computers.
Can you imagine? Most folks around here aren't used to making much more than minimum wage. Apparently the "average wage" at Google is over $48K per year, plus benefits. Honestly, that's more than twice what I make now. But still less than what I was making at my last job at JDE in Toronto. Near the end there I didn't much like the job anymore, but the $50+K per year and 4 weeks vacation almost made up for it. ;-)
Well, we'll see how quickly Google gets built. I may go completely round the bend by then and end up in Broughton. (the local loony bin).
House isn't on tonight. Stoopid state of the union address. bleah. ¶ 9:07 PM
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This wasn't here yesterday! Says you posted it on Tuesday, now it's Sunday. I read the update last night. I already knew most of it because you phoned too! :)
A job at Google would be mucho betterer than where you're at now.
I hope they have the smarts to hire you. James too, if wants it.
Now he's decided the Pizza biz isn't for him afterall.
A job at Google would be mucho betterer than where you're at now.
I hope they have the smarts to hire you. James too, if wants it.
Now he's decided the Pizza biz isn't for him afterall.
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: 11:57 AM
I'm having issues logging into the new blogger, run by Google :-p The other day I was having issues publishing this post.
Yeah, Google's great! bleah :-p
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Yeah, Google's great! bleah :-p
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