In California!!!

I'm hereeee, yippeeeee.  

We stopped by and got Kati Rolls on the way home from the airport. They were delicious. You don't get Kati Rolls in Virginia. I'm already liking California a lot better. 

Nervous, excited, and jetlagged like whoa. It feels like 3am to me, I have an interview tomorrow, goodnight.

Packed up and ready to go

My "plan" in the loosest sense of the word is to go to CA for about a month and apply for jobs like crazy. As I mentioned in my previous post, I want to find a marketing/advertising job in the social/new media industry, so SF is definitely the place to be for that. 

I'm going to stay with a cousin who lives in the city for the first two weeks and I've got one interview set for this Wednesday (the morning after I arrive), but thereafter it's all unknown! All I do know is I'm going to do whatever I can to get a job.

thYou're probably wondering why I gave myself only a month considering the average time to find a job is ~3-6 months. Well, this limited time frame is in place for 3 reasons 1) it gives me greater motivation to really work hard to get a job 2)  it's a challenge to find a job in 1 month, and I like challenges, and 3) Diwali is on October 28, and I'd like to be home for a couple days to celebrate with my family :) and say bye to everyone one last time. Then come back here for good.

I'm all packed and ready to go. Here goes nothing! 

One way ticket to San Francisco!

So I finally decided to make the jump and move to San Francisco.

Ok well, that's not the actual ticket of course or else but it was much exciting to show that than this:

Why am I going to SF? Well this all started when I got an interview with a little company called Google.  Two phone interviews and 3 weeks later I was flown out to SF for an in-person interview. After my interview, I  stayed out in CA for a week during which time I absolutely fell in love with the city.  I came back home and I knew that VA was just not the place for me anymore.  I'm done with Corporate America bs. No more big bureaucratic organizations, unnecassry redtape, and inefficient government projects.  I didn't get the job at Google, but instead I got a ticket straight back to SF (perhaps that was a blessing in disguise?). 

So as we speak I'm searching for jobs on the west coast.  My goal is to find a marketing/advertising job at a "web 2.0" startup in the social media industry. If anyone knows of any startups hiring or have any connections they could hook me up with, let me know! All and any help or advice is highly appreciated :)

San Francisco, here I come!