As I sit in the Red Brick Cafe in Guelph enjoying a nice cup of dark roast (I never got into the latte, cappuccino thing) I am pondering where to go next.
We are told that we will have something like 20 different jobs in our life and something like three to five careers or more. I am getting close to that now and I have at least another 30 years to work at least. So now that I have spent almost 10 years in one company, the longest stint at a company not owned by family, and am out looking for work. Where do I want to go?
I love working with technology. What technology you ask? Well I don’t discriminate. I love to find out about new technologies. Period. I have a background in Telecommunication Systems Design and have designed radios and communication systems. I have worked in rugged computer design making hand held computers that could be dropped from buildings or run over by trucks. I designed a single stage 120dB audio amplifier for a analogue cassette player that turned a 90 minute cassette into a book with 24 hours of audio (pre MP3). I have helped design wireless access points and application servers.
I love to see the applications of technology. I look at a something and can see a totally different application for it.
I spent a lot of time running development projects as a Project and Program Manager now, Program Management was a lot of fun but I was missing something. I realized that I truly enjoyed promoting the great products I was helping to develop. But I didn’t get to do that enough with Customers and Users. I only got to do that with the Sr. Management of my company. the Sr. Managers were really important to present to but the customers were the ones that gave me the most fun.
