A new direction
September 14th, 2008 YvoStarting this Monday my already adventurous but short career is going to take me in a new direction. For years I’ve been building up my skills on the *NIX platform becoming increasingly better by the day to the point where I feel comfortable hacking up C code in order for it to compile on say… Solaris 8 (not by choice :-)). I remember it was only 3 years ago that I was answering phone calls and performing tech support and since then have been doing system administration, with the last 6 months being more storage (Netapp & Hitachi USP) re-implementation & administration.
After my relationship ended in May I thought to myself “If a company offered me a job to travel 50% or more of my time, I’ll take.”. It would be the only reason I’d leave Classmates. Such an event happened in August. An usability study in June turned into a job offer by August after various delays on my side. So this Monday I start. First I need to get acclimated with the product (which is called Likewise) and hopefully I’ll be soon traveling all over. This is a big change career wise for me. Going from system administration to deploying software is a pretty big change but it’s a huge challenge for me. My fear is that I’ll get rusty when it comes to system administration but I’m going to do my best to keep my “A” game.
One thing I hate from all of this is way my resume is starting to look. Sure my last two gigs were over a year but not anywhere near 2 years and that makes me fairly unhappy with myself. That will be my next thing to improve…..