14 DAY TRIAL // There's an old saying, "What goes around comes around" and it seems to be catching on big time. Something to do with karma or something in that area, I'm not really sure.
But when karma decides to drop by for a visit, it's either: you are going to get very lucky or have your life and moral plummet to abyssal depths. Bonnie Brown has experienced both and in a very short period of time. Back in 1999, she was fresh from a really nasty divorce, with no home of her own and living with her sister. Just by chance, she answered an ad for an in-house masseuse at Google, a 40-employee start-up in Silicon Valley.
The money wasn't great and she was offered a big amount of Google stock options that she never thought would be worth a penny. She was so wrong that if "right" was on the other side of the world, any step further would have actually taken her closer to it. Unexpectedly for her, Google came to be the big hit it is today (when it changed the English language, enriching the vocabulary not only with a noun, but also with a fresh new verb - 'to google') and her stock grew and grew and made her a millionaire.
Five years into the job she quit and sold a big part of the shares she had amassed and has ever since traveled the world to oversee a charitable foundation she started, she has even written a book, still unpublished, "Giigle: How I Got Lucky Massaging Google." Not too shabby if I might add, and I have not yet mentioned the 3000 square foot house in Nevada where she gets to exercise with her personal trainer and gets her own massages at least once a week.
It's a good enough price for kneading engineers' back, wouldn't you agree?