Well, it’s been 3 months of unemployment. It’s a weird job market out there. Some companies don’t seem to know what they want, while others post jobs with no hurry to fill them. And with more layoffs happening all the time, the competition is only increasing for the real ones. I think I had one …
Category Archives: Career
A Forced Changed
tl;dr: I was laid off two weeks ago and am now on the hunt for the next page in my career. It sucks, but I am well and secure. I’m excited to move forward, there are several exciting opportunities I’m working towards, I have a new appreciation for what I want to do, and I …
My New Toys at iland
I’m now a month in at iland (and yes, it’s spelled all lowercase, not “Apple case”). I’ve spent most of this time meeting the new team, learning the ropes of the new company, learning the underlying technologies, and getting to know the products iland has developed. It’s your typical firehose situation. Often when starting a …
Looking forward to a new iland
Nope, the title is not a typo. Trust me, it’s punny. A job change is always a big deal. The frequency we change jobs in the IT field confounds people who are in other career fields, but I don’t think that makes it any easier. Even working remotely, strong bonds of friendship and respect are …
Looking back at SimpliVity
Here we go once again with another job change post. Seems to be a rash of these lately. Four years ago, I decided to embark on a new career adventure. At that time I had been working at a VAR as a presales architect. I did a lot of things in that job that I …
Making the Leap to SimpliVity
My latest story starts with a simple DM to Matt Vogt about a month and a half ago, who at that time had recently moved over to SimpliVity: This message came from two movements in my life: Lamenting the good old days of Vital Support Systems when the company had less than 100 people and …
2012: A Year in Review
I’m not normally one to do New Year’s resolutions or “the year in review” type posts, but I felt my silence out here deserved some level of recognition…or explanation…or excuse…call it what you like. So, if anyone is still listening here on my little lily pad in the great big Internet, here it is, my …
VMware View Administration Training Announcement
First I must start by apologizing to those of you who watch my blog regularly for my lack of posts lately. Not that it really has affected your life in any negative way, but I still feel bad since I view it as a commitment that I’ve failed to maintain. Obviously writing for TechTarget has taken …
My New Writing Career
Obviously there has been a lack of posts lately. For that I apologize. The main reason I haven’t been blogging much lately is that I’ve been doing a lot of freelance writing. I realized I haven’t been talking about these articles much on my blog, so I figured now was as good a time as …