Apparently, some folks decide to take advantage of those nice stock options so that they can quit their jobs and travel the world. At least that's what one fellow from Yahoo! has done. Found via Jeremy Zawodny is the story of an ex-Yahoo! employee named Andy that is blogging the story of his year long journey around the world. Sure, it's not directly search engine related, but it does give the rest of us some hope that we may also be able to parlay our search engine careers into a nice enough spot that we could also take off on a round the world trek.






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Jennifer Laycock is the Editor of Search Engine Guide, an educational web site aimed at translating the search marketing world into something that small business owners can understand. Jennifer specializes in common sense search engine marketing, viral marketing and customer outreach via social media and blogs. A former search marketing consultant and in-house trainer, Jennifer’s clients have included companies like Verizon, American Greetings and Highlights for Children. Her primary clients now are a little girl named Elnora and a little boy named Emmitt.

Jennifer Laycock is the Editor of Search Engine Guide, an educational web site aimed at translating the search marketing world into something that small business owners can understand. Jennifer specializes in common sense search engine marketing, viral marketing and customer outreach via social media and blogs. A former search marketing consultant and in-house trainer, Jennifer’s clients have included companies like Verizon, American Greetings and Highlights for Children. Her primary clients now are a little girl named Elnora and a little boy named Emmitt.