You know how, when something really incredible happens to you that you had always sort of dreamed about but never thought would actually happen, there's this adjustment period where it just doesn't feel real? And you feel pretty much the same as you always did, but then occasionally the full realization of what's happened hits you, just for a minute or two, and leaves you kind of stunned? That's how the last few weeks have been for me.
I've accepted a job at Yahoo! as a Senior Web Developer on the Yahoo! Search team. In the coming weeks, Felicity and I will be leaving the drizzly Pacific Northwest and moving down to sunny Santa Clara, California. We're both pretty excited.
I remember a conversation Felicity and I had a few years ago when I was feeling depressed about my job at the time, which was pretty boring and unfulfilling. She asked me what company I would want to work for if I could work for any company in the world, and I told her I'd want to work for Yahoo! because it seemed like a really fun place to work.
When I tore open the purple box containing my official offer letter and it actually yodeled at me, I knew I had made the right choice.
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Congrats! Welcome to Big Purple.
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Congrats!
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Very cool. :) Congratulations!
Congrats!!!
Hopefully I can join you in the land of the working soon.
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Congratulations!
Wow
Congrats. That sound like a pretty nice job. Hope you enjoy it.
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<3
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In case I haven't said so... Congratulations!!! We'll miss you here in the "drizzly Pacific Northwest."
Congratulations
But you may need to brush up on those PHP skills. :-)
-Isaac D.
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What are you implying?
but...
Will you still be a bitter software engineer?
Re: but...
I'll still be a software engineer and I'll still be bitter (as in cynical), just hopefully not about my job. ;)
Proud Momgeek
In case it hasn't been obvious under all my maternal whining about how far away Santa Clara is, I'm really, really proud of you, and also very happy for you.
And although you're incredibly brilliant and could have done it all just as well without me, I still secretly like to claim a little of the credit for your ubergeekosity, since I sort of started the whole thing by letting you teethe on my keyboard, and by writing software to teach you your ABCs. :)
Re: Proud Momgeek
Did I really teethe on your keyboard? Maybe that's why I never get sick; I built up my immune system by eating all those nasty keyboard germs when I was a wee bairn.
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Enjoy the trip. You've made it to the big show.
Well done
May we all be so lucky in our job searches.
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Good going matie..
Let us all know how you get on with Yahooing!
shouldn't that be...
... "Yahoo!ing" ? Or possibly Yahoo!ng. Why not Yahoo¡ng ?
Congratulations
Congratulations!
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Congratulations, Ryan!
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Yep, you liked to use the edge of my keyboard as a teething device. It was just at the right level when you were sitting in my lap while I coded. I did try to keep it somewhat clean, though. You were, after all, my first... my standards were still pretty high. It wasn't until subsequent sibs (especially after your darling baby sister ate half a cockroach with no apparent negative effects) that I got more casual, i.e. wiping off the dropped pacifier on my jeans before popping it back in. :)
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We all know you said "google"