On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:02:24 Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On 19 August 2011 19:37, Ryan McCoskrie <[email protected]> wrote: > > The following cam into my inbox yesterday. It took me a little while to > > believe however. > > > >> I wanted to speak with you regarding Engineering projects we are > >> currently working on at Google and wanted to see if you might be > >> interested in exploring opportunities at the moment. I did some > >> research online to find your contact info. I feel your background could > >> be a great fit to what we are looking for. Please respond to my message > >> and we can schedule a time to talk. Look forward to hearing from you > >> soon. > > > > Anyway, I had an interview with the recruiter and he seemed to think that > > I might be able to work on a team experimenting in making Linux more > > reliable on large scale server farms. > > Never ever let an opportunity like that pass you bye. > > Trouble is that we live in a cruel world and, unless you are a genius > of the very first water, they only come once in a lifetime. > > > The only problem though was that I would have to > > move to another country which is simply out of the question at the > > moment. > > But you would be earning enough that you could isolate yourself and > family from the less desirable things of any country.
It's not an issue of the country in itself, it's the disruptiveness of the move. I'm in a faith* that does not make a distinction between clergy/laity distinction** and the fact is that I haven't been living up to that ideal. Going to Australia (or anywhere well away from my congregation) would almost certainly compound that problem beyond repair. Besides, I couldn't afford to go without them paying and I'm not enough of an expert to justify that yet. Anyway, this post is getting really OT so it might be best if there are no on-list replies. *A pre-emptive comment to any followers of Richard Dawkins' ilk out there: I'm not entirely convinced in the existence of a reality beyond my own mind. From this standpoint making inferences towards the existence of a possible supernatural realm seems more sane than blindly believing ones senses. **Jesus is _THE_ priest, everyone else is (theoretically) as much of a spiritual leader as they can make they are personally capable of. The problem is that my life is in something of a doldrum, which is a really, really pathetic excuse. -- Ryan McCoskrie North Canterbury, New Zealand sourcelinksnotes.comyr.com
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