After 31 years at an unnamed, New York-based consulting firm, I (and many of my friends and co-workers) decided to leave the firm. After leaving, I realized that the email account I had been using since the invention of email -- my corporate Enterprise server account -- was no longer my lifeline to the outside (and inside) world. I was lost. I was forlorn. I was lonely. I no longer got 450 emails a day, which made me sad, even though only about 6 of them were useful and informative. Many of the rest of them seemed to deal with presumably desirable anatomical augmentations. But then, I noticed -- while borrowing a friend's email account -- that Google had started something called Gmail, and I was SELECTED to receive -- by invitation only -- a new Gmail account. How could I refuse? I hadn't gotten anything free since a sample of toothpaste came in the mail about 2 years ago. So I signed up. And so did all of my former co-workers, after I told them about Gmail. Now we had a new little community of Gmail users, and we felt quite special and very privileged. Using our new Gmail (and, of course, a Google-provided webhosting service), we started a new little business of our own. And now we have offices in Irvine, Laguna Beach, Honolulu and Scottsdale. Google and Gmail saved the day, and now we get a paycheck again. We will always cherish Gmail for facilitating the launch of our new business, and even though we now have an Enterprise Server again, we know that whenever it goes down (never more than 3 or 4 times an hour), we have Gmail to save our days.
Mom and Dad, Self employed parents
Laguna Beach
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