Today is my last day at Google. After 7 years I'm looking forward to doing nothing for a while, writing a book or two (oh yeah, I have a big announcement: I've signed 2 book contracts! More info soon!), and I'm getting married.
Please, no speculation on why I'm leaving. I was at Bell Labs 7 years too. It's just time.
(FunFact: I found a draft of a "goodbye message" I wrote. The file's datestamp was Nov 10, 2010.)
The annoying thing about job hunting is that usually you have to take random days off from your current job claiming "something came up" or taking vacation days or faking sick days. It is disruptive to coworkers, especially if you are in a team environment with lots of meetings. This time will be different: I'll be free to go at my own pace. (I'm looking only in NYC at this time.)
Officially I'm taking 4 days of vacation so that my last day is April 1st. Yes, my last day is April Fools Day. This is not a PR stunt to promote the April Tools RFCs book but wouldn't have that been hilarious if it was?
Tom
Best of luck, Tom!