bak wrote: > Aaron S. Joyner wrote: >> Perhaps I wasn't clear. I was simply saying that I did take a hard look >> at the base salary, and the other unlikely-to-change benefits of the >> team I would be working with, etc - and decided that was enough for me >> to make the decision to move to CA and work for Google. It was only >> after-the-fact, that I figured out that it was even possible that my >> monetary compensation would be in the realm where I would be grinning >> from ear to ear, instead of simply happy and making a good living. :) >> > You're totally right -- you did say that. My apologies if I > misrepresented you there; I was more agreeing with Magnus than disputing > your decision-making process. >> It's just a matter of considering which >> icing you'd rather have, a few extra K guaranteed per year, or a really >> awesome group of guys to work with and the possibility of huge >> truckloads of cash. :) >> > Sergey and Larry are the ones with the huge truckloads of cash. The > opportunity for huge truckloads of cash is not to be found at a post-IPO > company. ;) > > --bak >
No, that's airplane-loads of cash(1). :) I don't expect to become a millionaire while working at Google. I'm just tickled pink to be working on one of the world's largest computing infrastructures, with some of the world's smartest people, and making a daily difference in the world of Google. Aaron S. Joyner 1: http://valleywag.com/tech/larry-and-sergey/sergey-and-larrys-google-jet-mapped-185809.php -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/