Well, many of you knew by some other people that I was working at Google, yes I’m still working but for at least only for this week, the reason of this is the reason of the post.
Last year (like 11 months ago) I had one of those great opportunities in working in a company I dreamed since I was a child, then years later many companies started coming, some of them were like a “80%” of my dream, next a company started, its name: Google. However most of you know how hard is to get hired by a foreign company, then another company came to my map. They offered me taking me to Google, it was as a contract, of course I accepted, how many times we have these kind of chances of making our dreams come true? After all, that was the opportunity to let other people know I love to work and be proactive.
Life was a bit difficult at a start, alone, in another country, everything strange for one. However after a couple of weeks things started happening good, the project to which I came is spectacular. The current team when I joined was going to “disappear”, so the deal was a to form a new team that could take the other team did, make it better, and after all, do an excellent job and automate all things so if “that day” of leaving will come the company could make it by their own. For this I asked many friends if they wished to come, most of them accepted, most of them “could not make it”. After 4-5 months all the work we did together was making the project so stable, from around 30-40 issues caused by bad administration or communication we were hitting in the worst cases just around 1-2 issues per week or biweekly for the last 3 months.
.. then we needed to say “hello” to that stupid ball called economic crisis. Projects need to start closing, there were lot of friends that were affected by this and needed to go back Mexico. After some 3 or 4 months my friendly mate kad (Jorge) needed to say “hello” to this stupid ball. His assignation was finished. Things started moving fast and stressful. Is not that easy to see this kind of things happen more frequently. After all I knew two things could happen in December: I could renew my Visa and stay in the project for some more months or don’t have my visa renewed, guess which one happened? Yeah, second one. I try to see it not that bad, not that bad cause I believe the customer is now able to do the things by its own, that makes me happy and I’ve seen them do things we were doing in a very good way. Looks like the goal here is done, could be 110% better if I had more time.
Today I’d really enjoy to repeat that dream, not sure if that will be possible.. I’ve December and mid January to take a decision, I could repeat it but I want to have more time to enjoy, 2 or 3 years. People who know me know I love long term projects cause I can start applying things I always want to do (like to write an expert system able to diagnose problems and find solution based, everything automated).
Suggestions..? Mail me! (pablo@pablo.com.mx)