Dream of Californication!
My first trip to California ever. I am impressed with the roads and the apparent affluence...(you see soo many BMWs here). It was also my first stay in a good hotel like Marriott and it sure was fun to order room service morning, evening and night.
But unfortunately for me, my trip is marked by another "first" It is apparently the first time it's rained here in San Diego in the last 2 years. And boy it saps the fun out of anything that you might wanna do.
I expressed the same displeasure with the weather to one of these interviewers at Qualcomm and he says "The day that I was hired out of Indiana, it was raining too." I said, "So this is a good sign, you think!? Maybe I'll get hired BECAUSE it is raining." The interviewer goes, "Well maybe people only get hired in Qualcomm when it rains." When I related this incident to another interviewer during lunch, he goes "Well, it rains 10 days out of 365 in San Diego. If we hired only on the days it rained, we wouldn't have a very large company now, would we? ;-)"
But picture this... you land in a strange city in a strange state 1800 miles from home. You land in the night and it's raining like crazy. You are then given an a Ford Taurus, a car you've never driven before. You're supposed to make a 15 mile trip up North on I-5 with the already challenging conditions aggravated by the fact that sooo many streets in La Jolla match the "*La Jolla Drive*" criteria! Sounds a lot like the setting for the "Expert" level on Need For Speed. Human beings such as myself are just apt to mess the directions up and land up some place 3 miles from where you're supposed to be and taking 1 hour for the 15 min drive. Oh well... better luck next time!(if there is a next time)
