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[fast banjo and guitar music playing]
>>Ben: Nice guitar.
>>Fitz: Nice banjo.
>>Ben: Let's answer some more questions.
>>Fitz: I got another question here on my gPad. I'm keeping it in the new paper app.
>>Ben: There is a paper for that.
>>Fitz: There is a paper for that, exactly. So, the question is from Saudi Arabia. It
says, "Would you work for Google till the end of your career path?" That's a, that's
a good question, I think. And I, I actually like this question cause I've worked, I'm
coming up, well we're both coming up on five years at Google now.
>>Ben: Mm-hmm.
>>Fitz: And before Google, I'd never worked anywhere for more than four years. I had worked
at Apple for under four years. I've worked at CollabNet for under four years. I had worked
at a local start-up here for under four years and that sort of was like the, that was sort
of the barrier at which I'd sort of get the itch to like, do something else or, or find
another opportunity or try something else that's more exciting.
>>Ben: Yeah, yeah.
>>Fitz: And that, that four year anniversary came and went by at Google like, I didn't
even notice it. I'm mean there's--
>>Ben: Yeah.
>>Fitz: so much, for, for me there's so much exciting things going on. There's so many
opportunities to, to have new challenges, to keep learning, to work with really smart
and interesting people.
>>Ben: That's true. Every job I've ever had, I've always gotten into a place where I, I
get into a rut and I, I feel like I'm trapped or just bored with what I'm doing. There's,
there's really no way to change around and here everything's just as fluid as, as the
day I started, right? It's just as many opportunities. I feel almost like I have too many choices,
right? And I have to narrow myself down and choose what I want, but at any time, I can
switch gears and change cause everything's changing around me. It's very, it's, it's
exciting. And so, I, I can't think of any reason I'd want to leave right now.
>>Fitz: Right.
>>Ben: It's too, it's too much fun.
>>Fitz: But it's, it's, it's about, it's a lot, a lot of it's about the people. New people
are coming in to work and you get to, I think when someone new comes in that you can mentor
and work with them, I think you get to see a lot of the things you've been looking at
for a long time through new eyes, right? And a new point of view. And there's, part of
that is you're always learning, right?
>>Ben: Yeah.
>>Fitz: I mean, when, whenever you're mentoring someone or whether we spend some time in a
tech talk or we're looking at a new technology or starting a new project or talking about
a design decision, I think we're always, I'm personally always picking up new things and,
and new ways of, of looking at old problems and--
>>Fitz: I think that's what makes it so exciting for me.
>>Ben: Yeah, nothing, nothing here gets stale or old. It's always changing; always new.
And I'm, I'm really, really happy about that. I hope it lasts for a really long time. I'm
just saying it's, it's gonna be written up in textbooks. And it's like, "Look, look at
what Google did in its heyday. It's, it's got this fantastic culture, it's got this
crazy sets of people working." It's, it's a lot like Bell Labs in the 1950s.
>>Fitz: Right. Right.
>>Ben: There's an excitement to it and I think it's gonna go for a really, really long time.
I hope it goes to the end of my career. I think it will.
>>Fitz: That'd be pretty awesome.
>>Fitz: But that means we'd be working together for that long.
[Ben laughs]
>>Ben: We could. It's possible.
>>Fitz: Anyway, thanks for the question.
>>Ben: Thank you.
>>Fitz: And we'll see you later.