Today we begin our day with a tour led by Dr. Kelly. As Dr. Kelly grew up in Ireland in poverty, he has seen the country go from a second or third world country the first world country that it is today. During our tour around north Dublin where the majority of international companies are headquartered Dr. Kelly perspective allowed me to open my eyes and see the world from another point of view.
Just as I mentioned yesterday, understanding a countries history runs parallel with being successful coworker with your peers, mentors, and leaders. This afternoon we had the amazing opportunity to visit the headquarters of Google and later in this post I will go into more detail on how this correlates directly with Google as well. One of the most important things to note about Ireland in whole is in the past 20 to 30 years Ireland has had incredible growth. In comparison to the United States, Ireland has essentially blown up to what it is today in 20 to 30 years. If you looked at Ireland 20 to 30 years ago that would have been like the United States about 200 years ago so that shows the significance of this economic boom.
In result of this, the older generation of Ireland is equivalent to United States generations from 200 years ago. What this led to is an issue of not having enough people immigrating into Ireland to work blue collar jobs to help the infrastructure of the city develop along with the economic part. This is in part some of the reason why there’s a housing crisis in Ireland currently. Again, in comparison to the United States, the United States had around 200 years of continuous immigration and a more sustainable development of the country as it’s developed over a longer period of time. Many of the Irish left the country and got education after Ireland joined the European Union because they were given funding for Irish to go to college and after the Irish work extremely educated, more educated than most, this led to not having anyone to work these blue-collar jobs. This is part of the reason when walking around Dublin and interacting with the locals they’re extremely proud of their culture and this is part of what makes them such smart and amazing people.
So many of the people from Ireland are true Irish still to this day, although it’s becoming a cultural melting pot, as the country immigrates people in and allows for companies like Google to be Headquartered there. After touring Google, my expectations have risen dramatically as the work life balance for Google is unmatched with any other company to my knowledge. After getting the pick the brains of multiple Google employees about work life balance, their day-to-day jobs, in the new evolution of AI this made it clear that Google would be a dream place to work coming forth in the future. Lastly, all throughout the Google headquarters diversity in the workplace also seemed unmatched as there were people working there from all around the world speaking many, many different languages and it really seems to be a dream job with bright minds, creativity, and fearlessness for the future.
The featured photo in this post It’s from our tour with Dr. Kelly. The photos attached below are from the tour of Google headquarters.
