In recent Mustachian news, a Google engineer called Brandon received his 15 minutes of fame when he was found to be living inside a 16-foot 2006 Ford truck and lived in the Google parking lot for free. Unless you have been living under a rock, you’d know that it’s common knowledge that Google pays its employees well and provides one of the healthiest, happiest and most productive work environments possible. Living in a truck was an option that Brandon subjected himself to.

Brandon’s story in a nutshell

While Brandon was interning at Google last summer, he was living in the cheapest corporate housing offered: two bedrooms and four people for about $65 a night (roughly $2,000 a month). Like most Googlers, Brandon spends very little time in his apartment for the exorbitant amount of rent he spends on the apartment. Once he knew he was coming back to Google to work full-time, he started ......