Business Insider Tours Google in East Liberty (transportation, estate)

[Aqua Teen Carl]

Originally Posted by h_curtis

Sitting on your can all day and getting fat isn't exactly a healthy lifestyle.

True. But this is why I go home and box after work.

[gg]

Originally Posted by hnsq

What do you do for a living, h_curtis?

Owned a bar for a while. Flipped homes and sold real estate. I now work at a physical labor job that requires lifting and being very mobile. All my jobs required moving around and I have never had a desk job. Real estate was as close as I got and I belonged to a gym and played sports during that time of my life. I find it hard to sit still, so those computer/cubicle jobs would be a death sentence for me.

[hnsq]

Originally Posted by h_curtis

Owned a bar for a while. Flipped homes and sold real estate. I now work at a physical labor job that requires lifting and being very mobile. All my jobs required moving around and I have never had a desk job. Real estate was as close as I got and I belonged to a gym and played sports during that time of my life. I find it hard to sit still, so those computer/cubicle jobs would be a death sentence for me.

I guess different people like different things. I think life is too short to not have the intellectual challenges of an office job. I get bored way too easily in anything but an office job.

[BrianTH]

I really appreciate all the Pittsburghy things Google incorporated into their offices (a great example of leveraging Rust Belt Chic).

[gg]

Originally Posted by hnsq

I guess different people like different things. I think life is too short to not have the intellectual challenges of an office job. I get bored way too easily in anything but an office job.

Personally, I think an office job would be more mindless than making out in the world on your own. Much easier just to work for someone else. Been on both sides of that and working for someone else is like retirement. Guess mental stimulation would mean different things, but not many can cut it out there on their own. Hence almost everyone works for someone that is truly taking on the real challenge. Creating a work environment.

[Craziaskowboi]

Originally Posted by newmansown

"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up." - Ogden Nash

Somebody forgot to tell the pharmacists.

[hnsq]

Originally Posted by h_curtis

Personally, I think an office job would be more mindless than making out in the world on your own. Much easier just to work for someone else. Been on both sides of that and working for someone else is like retirement. Guess mental stimulation would mean different things, but not many can cut it out there on their own. Hence almost everyone works for someone that is truly taking on the real challenge. Creating a work environment.

A job without math/equations and complex problem solving is not for me. Real estate? I have tried it....it wasn't that exciting. Devising an algorithm to optimize a global network of transportation so a corporation can save a few million dollars per year on fuel costs? That is mental stimulation in my mind. But again, I am a math-oriented guy. I love algorithms.

[gg]

Originally Posted by hnsq

A job without math/equations and complex problem solving is not for me. Real estate? I have tried it....it wasn't that exciting. Devising an algorithm to optimize a global network of transportation so a corporation can save a few million dollars per year on fuel costs? That is mental stimulation in my mind. But again, I am a math-oriented guy. I love algorithms.

Yeah, math is cut and dry with little variation. Try looking at a home to flip, adding up the costs in your head, trying to predict the market price of a finished product in that neighborhood and do all this in fluctuating housing markets and interest rates. Oh and price of materials is another thing that can be altered pretty fast if a storm hits in Florida and drywall goes through the roof. Then time on market is an expense, because of carry costs/taxes and such that are always weighing on your pocketbook. They do make it easy on TV though. I love how they have real estate agents that never charge commissions on those shows. So realistic. :roll eyes:

There are always pluses and minuses to all jobs. I feel working for yourself is almost always the hardest job. Sitting in a cubicle is okay for some, but usually not all that tough.

[Hopes]

The building and general facilities are cool, but those cubicle workspaces are super tiny and have zero privacy.

Love the huge hammock though.

[hnsq]

Originally Posted by h_curtis

Yeah, math is cut and dry with little variation. Try looking at a home to flip, adding up the costs in your head, trying to predict the market price of a finished product in that neighborhood and do all this in fluctuating housing markets and interest rates. Oh and price of materials is another thing that can be altered pretty fast if a storm hits in Florida and drywall goes through the roof. Then time on market is an expense, because of carry costs/taxes and such that are always weighing on your pocketbook. They do make it easy on TV though. I love how they have real estate agents that never charge commissions on those shows. So realistic. :roll eyes:

There are always pluses and minuses to all jobs. I feel working for yourself is almost always the hardest job. Sitting in a cubicle is okay for some, but usually not all that tough.

You and I might be doing different kinds of math. Having done a home flip, the mathematical and technical analysis behind a global supply chain system implementation, or behind a data mining algorithm is more complex than anything I could ever do with my hands. For one project in particular I typed 56 pages of equations to implement a data mining algorithm for a corporation. Again, I am not saying what I am interested in is better or worse than what you are - it is just different. Personally, I would hate to have a job that doesn't require that kind of intense mathematical/technical focus.

Math is as cut and dry as the person writing the equations. There is a reason some of the most creative minds in the world become mathematicians.