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[wintergr3y]

I just got the call. Google hired me.

Let me try that again:

GOOGLE!

HIRED!

ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After two years of solid unemployment, I've finally been hired. Somebody values my skills and abilities! Validation!!

I'll be working at first as a contractor; assuming they like me after they've been working with me for a while, they'll hire me as headcount becomes available. I'll be working in the same group as capricious_k; the User Support team is the interface between Google and the general unwashed masses of Internet users. So I'll be continuing a career in corporate communication, just in a medium and environment very different from what I'm used to.

Oh, and the pay, even as a contractor, is about the same as the best I ever earned doing video production. :-)

Thank you to all my friends and family for your support during the longest vacation of my life.

Special thanks to capricious_k and furycom for putting in the good word for me with the powers-that-be at Google.

Comments

[winetraveldance.livejournal.com]

I'm still grinning like a madwoman. I know you're going to be fabulous at this job.

Sqeeeeee! Congrats and kisses and hugs. More to follow. :)

[miss-mimsy.livejournal.com]

Way to go, IDAHO!!

That is wonderful news! I wish you all the best!

[fyfer.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That is, as they say, wicked awesome. Google is the coolest company ever.

[torvo.livejournal.com]

Yay! Congrats! Woohoo!

[astorax.livejournal.com]

CONGRATULATIONS!!! WOOO!!!!

[digitaljenni.livejournal.com]

Congrats! I'm so happy for you! :)

[foxbat.livejournal.com]

Excellent! This time felt right for you! I'm happy and sad that I won't be there for the celebration.

[neverjaunty.livejournal.com]

> join google

Your income went up!
Your l33tness went up!

> tell friends

What do you want to tell your friends?

> tell friends, google hired me

Your friends go wild with joy!

There is a conga line here.

[seathan.livejournal.com]

Way to go!!

Has the order to Alienware processed yet? :D

[ladykalessia.livejournal.com]

Sweet! :D Congrats, and pass the job-finding luck around! ::hands you a shirt that says "Rub My Bell for Luck"::

[bk2w.livejournal.com]

Fabulous! Very good to hear of friends getting new cool jobs.

[willrabbit.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[phoenixrisen.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

Yeah, what they said...

[ailurodragon.livejournal.com]

Hot damn. With the rock, and the ing.

Excellent

[fresne.livejournal.com]

And congratulations and I'm sure long sigh of pent up breath.

Metal Steve says:

[capnkjb.livejournal.com]

Seriously, both arms went in the air, fists aloft, and pretty much that same face you see right there. That's what happened as I read it.

BOOYAH INDEED

[chrisfs.livejournal.com]

Yea !!!, That's great, I'm very happy for you. When do you start ?

Yipeeeee!!!!

[aoibhill.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy for you!!!!!

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

Dooooooooood.

Congratulations! Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Yay with the partiness and the Googleocity.

[tigman.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! May you get all the google stuff I..er... you want ;)

[snakefeathers.livejournal.com]

Two words, dude.

W00t!

and

W00t!

[tshuma]

So very happy for you, winter0!!!

Now we do the wiggly dance of joy!!!

(And you'll let me, right?)

WAAHOOOOOO!!!!!!

[ariyanakylstram.livejournal.com]

Cheers from Rochester, UK!

I'll tip you a glass tonight from London. Home on Wednesday evening.

You'll have to call a run sometime this weekend so we can toast you properly.