Googletastic :)

Last august, after my internship and before I really got started on my thesis I enjoyed "unemployed" life for some days, drank beer at daylight and watched trash-tv. I didn't like that lifestyle, so the last half year, while I wrote my thesis I was nervous about finding a job, since at the moment the world economy is not waiting for me to graduate. Except for some experimental applications I had put my job-search off until after graduation, because writing applications and preparing for interviews is exhausting and an awesome reason (as if I ever needed one) to procrastinate the thesis.

Still, when I e-mailed with my friend Natalie, who I know from AIESEC and who now works as a recruiter at Google, I sent her my CV and grade lists anyways. And two phone interviews later, on february 10, I found myself on a plane to Dublin for even more interviews. The next day I had my interviews at Google's EMEA headquarters there. I was really nervous before, but my interviewers were kind and fun and even though they made me think hard from time to time, it felt more like nice conversations than actual interviews. After enjoying a great lunch at the Google canteen I went back to Utrecht. During the next day my confidence positive feeling about the interviews faded and I came up with more and more things I should have said and done differently until I finally got an email from my recruiter saying she had only heard great things so far. It would still take two to three more weeks for different committees and the management teams to look at my papers and only then a decision about hiring me would be made. So I started waiting again. Luckily I went on vacation in the meantime, otherwise I would probably have gone crazy. I returned from my vacation on Sunday and still had to wait until the end of the week and those were crazy days. Things got even crazier when my phone rang Thursday night and I actually got the job!!! Starting on April 26, I will be Online Media Associate at Google in Dublin. I will be working in the Adwords Account Management team for the German market. So I graduated a week later having an awesome job at an even more awesome company waiting for me :) Well-organized as I am I found a new girl for my room within 24 hours so that I could leave at the end of March. I packed my stuff, sold my bed and had my dad bring my stuff to Germany. There I repacked it and now it is waiting for the movers to come pick it up and ship it to my (still unknown) address in Dublin.

I am leaving next monday and I am very very very excited! But even though I went to Berlin for Easter and had a lot of things to do last week, not having something to do and not being on some kind of mission bores me a little. Also, apartments in Dublin are always "available immediately" so looking at apartments too much ahead of time doesn't make sense. So I look at apartments online and hope they're still available next week, because I can't wait to have a place for myself! Until then I play with my Wii (I finally got one), make cakes, hang out with family and friends and wait for time to pass. And I am very pleased that this state only lasts for one more week :)