As I begin my last week unemployed and prepare to get back to work, this seemed like a good time to look back and reflect on the last few months. (more…)
Archive for the ‘Relocation’ Category
What I learned looking for a job
May 27, 2002New job
May 22, 2002Of course I haven’t spent the last few months exclusively fooling around with HTML code. In my *cough* spare time *cough*, I’ve also been looking for a job – still a major missing piece in the puzzle our life has become since we had to leave California. Well it seems the puzzle is now complete. I’ll be taking a job at a large financial institution starting June 1, 2002 (if you read this you’ll be among the first to know :-)
Taxes
April 21, 2002Boy I’m glad tax season is behind us. Well, not exactly behind since Swiss payments will be nicely scheduled throughout the course of the year, but a good chunck of administrativia is now done. We had to file seperate returns in the US, file a common return in the place where we spent our first few months back here, and file yet once more in the place where we now live. Oh, and that good ol’ supposed US refund ended up being… a balance due.
As I said, I’m glad this is now over…
Revival
March 23, 2002SiliconValley.com’s 9.11 weblog was moved. There’s also an interesting article there about Silicon Valley’s revival.
Back in Switzerland
November 18, 2001So we’re back in Switzerland. the last few weeks have been rather busy and I haven’t taken the time to update this website. It’s been way too long so here we go some information about what’s been going on for us recently. (Note that you can also check out this story to read about our last few weeks in the Bay Area.)
Latest news
November 16, 2001We spent a while yesterday afternoon at the Interdean warehouse in Geneva – the company that has managed our move and will be storing our stuff until we find an apartment. There were several items we needed to get a hold of (mostly clothes) so we were present when they transfered everything from the shipping company’s container to one of theirs. On a different note, we also spent last week-end in Alsace, visiting Colmar, the Haut-Koenigsburg, “La Montagne des Singes”, Kaysersberg and overall having a really good time. It was freezing, though.
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Retour précipité
November 14, 2001Comme pour demontrer la veracite de cette definition de la Vie qui ne serait que l’ensemble des choses qui se produisent lorsqu’on en prevoyait d’autres, nous sommes de retour en Suisse. Mais revenons quelques semaines plus tot.
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Time is flying by
October 11, 2001It’s been almost two weeks now since we touched ground in Europe. I’ve been busy meeting with family & friends and essentially looking for a job. We’re also getting married in december which is getting really close but haven’t had a chance to work on that much. The good side of all this is however that there’s still a little more time for other things. My father walked me around the Expo.02 area in Neuchatel (he’s coordinating the whole thing). The third large inflatable structure was brought up today and I even had a chance to walk on top of it for a few minutes. There’s an amazing view over the entire town, and it’s pretty strange to be walking on one huge balloon 20+ meters above the lake surface. Too bad most people will only be allowed to wander below those huge stone-shaped, air-filled structures;)
Back in Switzerland
October 5, 2001Yep, different timezone. So much has been going on these last weeks that I hardly know where to start. First, I don’t think anybody has fully recovered yet from the September 11 horror. Then, my jobsearch in the Bay Area has led me nowhere, and
we’ve finally decided to move back to Switzerland. Talk about a nightmare. Oh, and Swissair is stuck on the ground but right now I really couldn’t care less. Family and friends are great – both in the Bay Area and in Switzerland -which is helping a lot. We’re for instance living with my father for a while until we’ve found a place of our own.
Terror
September 11, 2001This morning’s events, with planes crashing into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, came as a shock to everyone. Locally, all San Francisco schools have been
shut down. The airports are closed. All Bay Area bridges are closed to traffic. On the job front, things are moving really slowly. Considering the situation in today’s Silicon Valley, it might just make more sense to go back to Switzerland.We’ll need to make a decision soon.
