Wow, in my wildest imgination, I didn't think one day I would write this.
Today I handed my resignation and thus saying goodbye to IT as a career
And the decision wasn't abrupt, but a long-waited and overdue one. I'm bringing the ship to shore next Friday and will sail in new waters.
My first encounter with a computer was in 1992 with WordPerfect 5.0 and then the game began. I went to school, worked part-time in IT, did a bachelor degree in Busiess, a posgrad diploma in IT, but never wanted to work in business, so worked in IT, mostly in system admin and support.
In recent years I witnessed the erosion of IT system admin as a viable career and I'm sure you know what I'm talking about: System admin was outsourced and/or moved offshore and companies consolidated technologies and system admins suddenly found themselves under undue stress, and told there was no choice but to remain competitve. I decided, wait a minute, maybe I have a choice.
I no longer wanted to be burn out. Certainly, new waters won't be an easy sail, but I was really up for a change and as I said it's not an abruption decision.
The good news is I will be on this forum as I will be involved with IT at my new career and this is a great community, so i won't put my resignation here
I found out that most IT folks to be very intelligent, fun, easy going, so I miss all that. But through all these years, I learned some in Management lacked common sense and a sense of understanding when it came to understanding IT personnel. But overall, it was a nice ride and I have no regrets being in IT until now, but change is the meaning of life.
Don't undersell your skills, don't give in easily, fight back for your value and skills, but do it with integrity and professionalism. Enjoy what you do, because that's important.
Let me bow down and salute
