erica's joys :)

1. Up until I was about 15 (1995), I always thought I'd be a lawyer. After that point, I was focused on working with computers. You remember 1995, right? The beginning of those beautiful days leading up to the dot com bust? Funny thing though, even after the bust, I still wanted to work with computers.


2. During school, I worked on an Army post and I was married for about a year and a half to a guy in the Army. I can say, with conviction, that the US Army does not give a hot damn about the families of it's soldiers. Despite the propaganda that they attempt to force on soldiers and their families (how many "Soldiers and Families First" posters did I frame?) they would rather all the soldiers be single.
   


3. I hate flying. Well not so much the flying part as the idea that the plane could fall out of the sky due to any one seemingly minuscule thing that can cause extremely bad things to happen. Yes, yes, my chances of being in a car accident are greater than my chances of being in a plane that crashes. However, my chances of living after said car accident are far greater than my chances of living after a plane crash.
   


4. Getting my job at Google was kind of a fluke. I was on Craigslist looking for something random (I'm always scouring for old computers and good deals) and decided to look at the jobs section. I saw Google was hiring in Atlanta and I said "Oooo cool," sent my resume in and here I am today.


5. I wasn't born in the United States and for a while I had dual citizenship with the country I was born in. I got rid of it when I had some issues with financial aid in college. What I mean by issues is "We don't think you're a citizen of the US, therefore you can't have financial aid." Silly, yes. However arguing with people in power who think they're right can take a long time, time I didn't have.

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