Holy crap life has gotten routine lately. Hold on, I’ve got to go kill a spider for Amy. Okay, now that I’ve killed it she’s mad at me for not putting it in a cup and letting it go outside. What are we Buddhist now?
Where was I? The same ‘ol day to day going into 2007. I go to work, get harassed to solve other peoples problems, make 50 phone calls and come home to spin Connor around in the living room for 20-30 minutes before cooking and bed time. That’s it, every week day of my life. We do have the baby coming in a few months and Amy and I are real happy with everything. Bored but happy.
Despite managing the IT deployment of 21 new franchise and corporate facilities this year for 1-800-Pack-Rat I wanna do something that has a bigger impact with more personal satisfaction. So I decided to get my Project Management Professional certification from the Project Management Institute. If I could eliminate the amount of “dead time” I spend during my work week supporting end users through routine tasks and providing basic PC instruction I could be designing some serious wide area networks, back-end server architectures (farms) and negotiating major telco contracts through agency.
That may not sound like fun to most people but it would mean a sense of accomplishment and money to me. The accomplishment part would come from acting as the agent for unsuspecting corporate primes who are routinely getting ripped off by integrators, telco vendors and even unskilled internal staff who allocate money for the wrong technology. I see it happen all the time and Executives are unable to determine right from wrong in the midst of disenting opinions. There are CEO’s of SMB’s out there who need unbiased assessments and I’d like to be the impartial voice helping to determine what will really take their company in the right direction, not boost the Integrators profit margins.
It’s easy to see why I got out of being a Consultant for a VAR relatively quickly back in 2000. As hard as I tried I couldn’t stomach proving unnecessary recommendations to clients on behalf of a sales rep knowing the same technologies could be implemented faster, more securely and cheaper (or free).