I agree and I disagree. I agree that proximity is not everything (but it helps). Perhaps more important is flexibility. Nothing beats not having a job or having to work for being available no matter when the wind and waves are happening. Having to slave long hours or multiple jobs (heaven forbid) would kill any possibility of 'being on it' for kiting.elli wrote:Proximity for me means one thing: Get in to the car, or get there without a car. Once you are in the car, and everything is packed, 1 minute or 15 minutes drive is the same thing. No practical benefit. There is also the time to get into the water once you are in the parking, which you will not change and for me is longer than the drive.
IMO: Get the best job you can find, if you are talking biotech between South San Francisco and Palo Alto you are never really too far from third.
Proximity helps a lot for being able to know what the conditions are, and more importantly for making the call (decision) for when to pounce on it and when to stay at your job to get your work done (better allowing one to kite when it is right). If your office or the 'watercooler' overlooks the kite spot you can really have this dialed in. Also, if you go and you were wrong, it is a lot less costly (in terms of time), if the commute is closer. I have wasted hours driving to/from Waddell (and 3rd) from my biotech job in SSF (would be less costly if I worked on a flower farm 5 min from Waddell). I guess with the 3rd Ave cam and ikitesurf, it has become profoundly easier to make the call without having to possess that local knowledge that proximity brings. Gilead is a good company, the proximity is great for 3rd Ave and it is still pretty close to the waves ! (I'd love to work there from that standpoint (but cancer and viruses are not my bag, baby).
