Palo Alto Salaries
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- ewirtz0
Thanks madirish!
Haa haa. I was pretty much given the job here from my old boss. Bastard moved my family to Baltimore and 8 months later left to go work as a Senior VP at Bank of America.
Hoping that sometime in the next year to get back to San Diego.
- madirish0
ha! no shit.
well, i hope it has been cool, nonetheless. there is also another dude on NT who did a lot of design work for you guys as a freelance i think. know him?
- laurus0
Thanks madirish,
This was very helpful.
I've never heard of experientia, looking in their web site I gathered that their director of R&D is Israeli (as am I). Do you know them? I see quite a few collaborators from Israel working with them, including one that worked for me 15 years ago.
The portfolio on m site only represents a period of 2.5 years in which I had my own studio. Most of my work before is interaction/web and after web 2.0 companies/application interfaces.
The problem with the Palo Alto thing is that I gathered that daycare there costs something like 3K, so unless my wife is going to work (which is tricky, since I'll be the one getting the permit), she'll have to stay home with our baby daughter for the next few years, which is not something that we would want.
- madirish0
glad to help any way i can. i know exactly what you mean about the costs of items there and those being 'problems' to the move. while i do not know amounts exactly, i could see day care running thta much pretty easily. on the contrary, I know there are solutions for child care that would not be this much, and could be more communal, depending on what part of the bay area you live in. in the berkley/oakland area, i know community co-op child care is becoming more popular, for example.
re: experientia- no, i do not know them, but their background and work is very similar to mine and i always am fascinated by those in the experience design arena. there are not many who have been at it this long. i would very much like to be in contact with them, however.
re: your portfolio- i kind of thought that might be the situation. ;) it would be sweet to see what you have been doing lately. i might email you if you are interested. funny enough, it looks like i am going through a very similar situation and may be joining something of a startup again here. we will see.
all the best and let me know if you would like any more assistance about the bay area. oh, and one of my good friends from Israel moved to Autin, TX but might be moving again to cali. :)