I’m not as amused by Google’s graphics as Jenny.

Allow me to explain. Last year, when I was looking for a job, our search expert left Kaiser and went to Google. He was a great guy and he knew that I wanted to leave so he told me they had an opening at Google. I was a little confused and wondered why they would need a designer. I mean, look at their site. But they had a chef who cooked all their meals so, I said, what the heck! I had a phone interview with the VP of Marketing. I was driving home from the East Bay and I was on my cell phone, being interviewed by this person.

This is how she described the job: “We need a graphic artist (I HATE being called that) who can work with Marketing on this ongoing project. This is still just in the planning stages but basically, we need someone who can “dress up” our logo on a seasonal basis”. What? “For example, during Christmas, we may want to hang some Christmas light on the Google logo. For Easter, we could have eggs and bunnies around the logo”.

Needless to say, I never bothered to schedule a second interview. No chef-prepared meals would be enticing enough for me to make a career out of this. Was it a bad career decision? Maybe a bad financial decision. As far as my career, definitely not.

Stumble it!