Sat 12 Dec 2009
Change in course
Posted by Julio Hernandez-Miyares under All About Work
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Changing course is easy when you are providing that advise to someone else especially when the course you are talking about is what you do for a living. That is considered a “life change” event if one looks at how benefit plans characterize when you can change benefits after the “election” period.
It is difficult choice whether the economy is booming or is somewhat moribund as the present climate gives all appearances.
Admittedly being in the technology field with prime focus on “The Web” puts me in a distinctly good position. It is where most of the action is and will be (though Social Networking is “passe” and thankfully so) for many years to come as it’s utility and novel ways to be utilitarian evolve.
I have tremendous appreciation for the opportunities I have been provided over the past few years to not only work with people who know Search and the Web and have been leaders in those fields but also to be allowed to build things that millions of people have used and hopefully have enjoyed.
I love watching the iron workers starting with nothing but a pit and piece by piece soaring into the Manhattan sky the framework of a majestic edifice. I feel that being in technology development, we are somewhat of the iron workers of the new economy. Somewhat of a stretch at a certain level as we don’t risk plummeting downward with a single mis-step but it feels about the same when things go awry which they often do.
In the end, I have chosen of my own accord to start fresh and take the “plunge” leaving the caccoon of a large safe company and depend on myself or a small group of others to “create meaning” (as Kawasaki states in Art of the Start) .
What that meaning is I don’t yet know as this is the first day but an exciting day it is.
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