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February 22, 2006

Moving forward

I haven't wanted to blog about this until now, but I feel that the time is right. Today was my last day with the Solarity Group. I started with the company back last October with the hope that I would get into IT consulting and make a name for myself. I guess I had this concept of what IT consulting would be pre-determined in my head. What it was, on the other hand, was something completely different.

It's not that I didn't like working with the people. That's totally incorrect. If anything, I met some great people and I'm a better person for knowing them. There's really two things that made me determine that consulting wasn't for me ... at least at this point in time in my life.

1. I discovered that I don't like driving much.
I thought that the driving aspect of the job wouldn't be that big of a deal for me. The problem that I encountered was that I was driving between Louisville, Lexington, Cincinatti and Frankfort on a regular basis. This much time on the road doesn't really work well for me ... especially with my bum knee and the fact that I have a manual transmission. Maybe if I had cruise control, it would be a better scenario.

2. I didn't know where I was going to be at any given time.
This probably wouldn't have been a big issue if I was my own boss bringing in clients. I think that this has a lot to do with me having to wait and rely on other people to tell me what to do. I don't really do well in this kind of environment. I'm the kind of person that prefers to take the bull by the horns and get a job done. I decide what needs to be done and then I do it. In this particular scenario, I would often find myself waiting for something to happen or find out the morning of that I would be going somewhere for the day or for a few hours.

So, tomorrow I start a new job at a place downtown called Print Fulfillment Services. I got a job working as the System Administrator, responsible for the overall IT environment (or so I understand). I'm going to have two people working under me as IT technicians.

There's several nice things about this new job that I'm looking forward to:

1. I get to do this from the ground up.
Similar to what I did at WHAS-TV, I get the opportunity to build a computer network and server environment from the ground up.

2. Stability, stability, stability.
I know where I'm going to be every single day of the week. There's no question about where I'm going to be doing from one hour to the next. This is one of the biggest things that I've missed about WHAS.

So, anyhow ... that's about it. I know it seems that I've been switching jobs alot lately. Heck, this is the 3rd job in a years time. But, I think that perhaps the 3rd time may be the charm. After all, I was at WHAS-TV for 3 years. I probably would've still been there had I not been enticed to leave by SkyWay USA.

But, then again, everything happens for a reason. I'm looking forward to a new beginning.

~out...

Posted by ed at February 22, 2006 10:51 PM

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