I just graduated in December, and was fortunate to be in the position of having two very nice job offers to pick from. I went with my job in Cary over one in Dallas for mostly two reasons: first, it didn't involve moving to an area where I know no one and second, they're already a publicly-traded company, so as much fun as it can be working for a non-publicly traded company, working for one where you can get good external analysis of the company's financials, work, etc was pretty appealing.
My roommate went for almost 7 months after his graduation from grad school in Dec of 05 before finding a job that was both interesting and would compensate him at the level somebody with a PhD in Electrical Engineering should get. And it was because of his job that I found out about the availability of my current job. A relocation for me would have been a relatively trivial matter - but the amount they offered above the local company wasn't worth the hassle of moving, changing car insurance, licensing, finding an apartment in a not-crappy part of town, etc. Since I just graduated from college, had I been able to actually talk to Google about any of the positions I applied for, and they offered something approaching parity of what I got here, I would have jumped at the opportunity. But right now I'm working for a company that small enough, and specialized enough, that not only do I have a shot at knowing most if not all of my coworkers (and a bunch that I would otherwise not need to know), but I can also reasonably expect to know each of our products inside-out and backwards inside of a few months. Warren -- http://warrenmyers.com "God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers." --Paul Erdős "It's not possible. We are the type of people who have everything in our favor going against us." --Ben Jarhvi, Short Circuit 2
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