Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Direction

So here I sit, I'm 28 years old and I'm trying to figure out my direction. That is, I think I know what I want to do next, it just depends on the direction. The way IT is running now it's hard to say what is the best way. I've been doing a fairly good job of becoming an engineer, actually focusing on one set of skills and gaining experience in it. It may not be a huge need for it, but I've learned how to tear things down and build them back up and work around them. (The life of a desktop software package engineer... taking an install from a vendor and re-working it into a package/script to use for deployment to workstations). I actually started to enjoy the work. And on the side taking a management training course and my college courses (math, English, etc.). Now that has all changed. The new job is way more hats. Nothing specific, the school of thought is that it's an enterprise and each person on the team should know all about it. Which in a sense is good, I could learn more about the server side of things and maybe even some networking bits. But on the other side, I can't delve deep into any one thing because I'll be too busy with everything else. It feels like a step backwards, which worries me, I like the direct route forward. It sure is a bit of a dilemma, because if I don't do the new job, what do I do?