A long time ago I wrote a post, Why I Want to Work at Google. In that post I cover most of the benefits that Google provides because I felt like might grab more people’s attention than my real reasons. For most of the time I have spent in the IT field it has been by myself, nobody to work with and learn from or to teach. When I have worked with others I always benefited in some way, so for me, the greatest benefit that Google could possibly offer is the opportunity to work with an exceptional group of people and work in an environment that makes you feel appreciated.

I have been at Google for two weeks now and I hope I never have to leave. I work with very smart and very nice people and I can only hope that I can learn from them and maybe share some of my experience with some of them. Time will tell, but for now I am just happy to be a part of Google.

The only thing I wish is that I had more thumbs to point up in Google’s favor.

I haven’t mentioned this until now, but I have been hired as a contractor for Google. I can’t discuss the stuff I do, but I freaking love the job… even if I could discuss it, I don’t know that I could put it into words. I am looking forward to the possibility of converting to a permanent employee down the road. Really the only differences are that I don’t get all the perks, but the experience is good enough for me.

I just moved to Atlanta, and I have stuff everywhere. This is one of those moves where your parents give you everything of yours that is in their house so it was a beast of a move. I had a couple people able to help me, but I had to load and unload a good bit of the 26′ truck. I also had some trouble with the auto transport so I have to get some money back from Uhaul for being a lame company and giving me crap.

I just moved down to Atlanta, GA…. well I am actually living right outside the perimeter in Smyrna, but close enough. I rented a 17′ Uhaul, but I was lucky and was given a 26′ truck with only a few thousand miles on it, which actually worked out great because I didn’t have to spend a ton of time making things fit.

Five miles from my house the trailer shorted out every light except for the hazards and the headlights. So I had no tail lights, no dash lights, nothing behind the cab could be seen without the hazard lights on. So then I had to wait 2 hours for someone to show up and another 1.5 for it to be fixed. So I am working on getting a refund on either the gas or the trailer all together and an extra day on top of it. Oh and I had to drive 60 miles @ 6mpg @ $3/gal to get this busted ass trailer. Break downs happen, I am not trying to dispute that, but this was pure neglect. The wires were cut and mixed up with a bunch of other wires and shorting out on each other, I’m not a mechanic or an electrician and I could and would do a better job than that.

Anyway off to unpack