Small Town

[susandennis]

Seattle is sometimes the most amazing small, incestuous town. I've only lived here for 14 years. I am neither a mover or a shaker and my circle of acquaintances is exceedingly small by anyone's standards and yet I rarely get all 6 of my expected degrees of separation. Today's case:

My boss at the last startup I worked for announced that she was leaving and taking a job with a new start up. This morning's paper revealed that the Chairman of the Board of her new startup is the guy who eventually headed up IT at Microsoft but was my boss's boss when I was first hired. He was in my interview loop and I very nearly did not take the job after talking to him. He so rubbed me the wrong way. He got promted a different job shortly thereafter so I, thankfully, never had to really work with him much.

Comments

[nanne.livejournal.com]

Only lived there for 14 years? I've never lived anywhere for more than 11 years. I'm more on a 7 year move cycle ^_^

[susandennis]

Ha. I grew up on the east coast where you were a newcomer unless you were born in the hospital down the street. I was not, so I was always a newcomer and I guess it just stuck.

I was 43 when I moved here and four years later was the first time I had ever lived anywhere long enough to get my drivers license renewed so I can relate to your cycle.

[nanne.livejournal.com]

My mother's family is like that (southern parts of The Netherlands), and there's plenty of the same around Amherst. You stop being "the new guy" after, oh, four decades or so, around the same time you have you first grandchild. I don't mind it, though. Must be the 1/16th gypsy in me ^_~