Thank God for Google!

So my week started out better than last week did. I have started entering my whole life since my 18th birthday for this FBI job. Wow! I don't know if you have ever had to enter job information from 15 years ago, but it is a chore. That is why I titled this blog "Thank God for Google!"

I know God didn't invent Google, but he created the genius(s) that came up with this "internet manna." You can Google just about anything. Last night Kat Googled Charles Darwin for a science report. Tonight we will Google a picture of him to attach to her report. You can find people, information, pictures, websites, blogs, porn (not that I have looked). I have had to Google former employers.

I thought this online information questionnaire would be easy. The paper version said go back 7 years for addresses and employers. Well, when I got the email with the information about the website to fill this paper out electronically, I was told to go back to my 18th birthday. How many of you remember the address and name of your supervisor from the part time job you worked in college, 20 years ago? Yeah, me either. But, between Google and YellowPages.com, I have found the address for just about every employer I have had since high school graduation. Now, as for the supervisors, that is just a lost cause. Luckily, I have space to explain myself. An hopefully the Federal Government will understand that businesses close, people change jobs, and memories fade. At least I have found the majority of these employers, and have a good explanation as to why I don't have addresses for some of them.

As hard as this process has been for me, I could only imagine if I would have tried to do this 10 years ago. The internet was huge back then, but you still couldn't find everything you needed online. I would never have been able to fullfill the requirements that were set for me on this questionnaire.

So that's where I am at right now. I just had to take a break from the long process, so I thought I would document what I am doing. My break time is over. I have to have this done before Saturday.