If she had to choose: you or Apple?
You love your girlfriend, and she loves you.
You love Apple too (I'd assume a big percentage of the people hanging around here do like Apple?). You are not working for Apple, but have a new job that you like and you get well paid.
She gets a job offer at Apple. If she accepts it, she'll have to live overseas, in a different continent (annoying time zone difference too) than you, for at least one year.
She can't ask for location change. She can't get an Apple job or a 'real' job where you live.
You can't change your location, and her salary will not be enough to support both of you.
Should she choose Apple or you?
You love Apple too (I'd assume a big percentage of the people hanging around here do like Apple?). You are not working for Apple, but have a new job that you like and you get well paid.
She gets a job offer at Apple. If she accepts it, she'll have to live overseas, in a different continent (annoying time zone difference too) than you, for at least one year.
She can't ask for location change. She can't get an Apple job or a 'real' job where you live.
You can't change your location, and her salary will not be enough to support both of you.
Should she choose Apple or you?

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Originally posted by Towel
Bah. If you're meant for each other, a year apart is nothing. It will only strengthen a healthy relationship. Besides, think of the fun places you'll get to see when you go visit her.
I've been apart from my girlfriend for longer than that but finally I'm going to her. I kept chasing the carrot at the end of the stick of 3 frigging companies that either went belly up or undercut me. No more. She comes first this time.
Companies lie, people. it's all cozy cake parties and coffee runs one day and "you can't go on vacation, we need you, oh wait no we don't, we got an 15 Indian slaves for what we pay you instead, so you're fired."
Never put off your life for a company.
Originally posted by Panther
[B]Should she choose Apple or you?/B]
Hard to say... what kind of hardware discounts would she get? Might be worth it to go party for a year or two, load up on cool stuff and come back to you when she and her dual-core G5s are ready to settle down.
If you had to choose, her or Apple?
Originally posted by Moogs
Hard to say... what kind of hardware discounts would she get? Might be worth it to go party for a year or two, load up on cool stuff and come back to you when she and her dual-core G5s are ready to settle down.
Originally posted by Giaguara
Originally posted by Panther
You love your girlfriend, and she loves you.
You love Apple too (I'd assume a big percentage of the people hanging around here do like Apple?). You are not working for Apple, but have a new job that you like and you get well paid.
She gets a job offer at Apple. If she accepts it, she'll have to live overseas, in a different continent (annoying time zone difference too) than you, for at least one year.
She can't ask for location change. She can't get an Apple job or a 'real' job where you live.
You can't change your location, and her salary will not be enough to support both of you.
Should she choose Apple or you?
So, first of all forgive the obvious faux pas, but is Apple worth it that much for someone you feel that strongly about?
Lets just say yes for the sake of argument (and to avoid me getting lynched here).
At what point did you ever conisder going over there? I'm in an oddly similar situation currently and am working on getting transferred over to an office closer to where i NEED to be. Yea, that means an overseas life but wtf, i would rather be with her.
So, don't just accept this as some kind of detente... If you want option three out of two available ones at least try. In my case, Ireland is a very technology rich country where there's a much higher chance of a transfer than other locations. It may be a pain, I may not make as much over time located there, but I'm putting ever ounce of my effort into making that happen. Simply because its where i need to be.
Overseas relationships suck, we live in a global economy, dont always fall prey to the thinking that everyone has to come to the US
And after all, wouldn't you be in a good position to be at Apple too then?
regards as always.