Dreaming In Google
I recently accepted a job at Google. Future posts will talk about what I’m doing and how it all happened, but this is just a quick interesting tidbit from my life right now.
A few nights ago, I had a dream that I was still in school. I graduated this past December, so idk why I’m dreaming of school still ¯\(ツ)/¯.
In the dream, I’m in a classroom of other people. We’re all quietly reading a book and taking notes. I get really focused on my work and stop paying attention to what’s happening around me. Other people had started goofing around, but I don’t notice.
Then the teacher says something like “At least Google is still getting stuff done”. Hearing the word “Google”, I started to pay attention. I realized that other people were goofing off and getting scolded. Then it slowly dawned on me: I was being referred to as “Google”.
Acceptance?
I’ve heard it said that if you start dreaming in a second language, that means you are fluent in that language. If I start dreaming where I am being called Google, what does that mean?
I accepted the job with Google in March, so it’s been almost six months since I could actually think of myself as a Googler. When I started telling people that I was going to work there, people jokingly sometimes said “Hey Google” to get my attention.
Because there’s relatively so little tech in Nebraska, getting a job at Google is a pretty big deal. It’s exciting. It’s different. It’s unusual.
In Silicon Valley, this is the way life is. I’ll regularly meet people that work at Facebook, or Apple, or Intel, or some other big tech company. It’s ordinary. It’s regular. It’s normal. It’s accepted.
I guess this is what I’m trying to say: at some point between accepting a job at Google to moving to Silicon Valley to actually working at Google to meeting other people who live here, I’ve accepted the fact that I work at Google.
I never really thought I would perk up and listen when Google is mentioned, nor that I would respond to being called “Google”. But, I guess that I’ve (subconsiously?) reached that point of acceptance of my whole life situation right now.
It feels kinda weird to say that though. I’m just a kid from Nebraska who God blessed with a great opportunity and an even greater plan. I never thought that Google would mean more to me than the search engine. But, I responded to it in my dream, which means that at some level I accepted myself as a Googler, right?