Once I worked 50-60 hour weeks for an IT vendor. I spent weekend time traveling; I spent 50 or even 100 nights per year away from home; and missed a fair chunk of my son’s first four years. My aspirations changed as I got older and had family, and the company changed too. It had ceased to be fun. At times it got downright Dilbertesque.
quit your job: escape to a new life.
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How an IT Guy Found Job Freedom | Article |
How an IT Guy Found Job Freedom
by Rob England
An inspirational article on making the move. The original article that coalesced the thinking behind this very website, ttjasi.com!
How Secure is Your IT Technical Career? | Article |
How Secure is Your IT Technical Career?
by Rob England
Here's an article to put the wind up complacent geeks.
Strategies For Securing Your IT Career | Article |
Strategies For Securing Your IT Career
by Rob England
Ideas to help geeks building a career.
What Matters | Article |
Geeks and the Meaning of Life
by Rob England
Originally (and better) titled "What Matters". Not about geeks at all.
The 7 Top Reasons Why You Can’t Quit Your Job | Article |
7 You are afraid of the unknown
You are worried about not knowing what will happen to you. You can drive half-a-ton of steel at sixty miles an hour inches away from other vehicles, and trust their drivers to do the same. You can purchase and eat food that you didn’t see being cooked. You can enter a convenience store after nightfall. You regularly plug and unplug cables carrying 120 volts (or 240 volts) of lethal electricity. Heck, you pipe the stuff through a pad in your bed. But changing jobs is really dangerous.
6 It is comfortable where you are.
Chilling condemnation of those selling abstract deliverables | Article |
As I read this article in MIT's The Tech it left me feeling slightly ill. Back came all the memories. This article isn't just about what a crock of s**t consulting often is. It pertains to many industries selling abstract outcomes for lots of money, such as... oh, um... software. Never before have I seen the truth so bluntly told about selling clients what they want not what is good for them.
The Triumph of the Airheads | Book review |
The Triumph of the Airheads
by Shelley Gare
Park Street Press
ISBN 1 876624 54 X
Contains the occasional Australian-ism that may puzzle overseas readers, but this book is a brilliant expose of the rampant stupidity of the world at the new millenium.
If you wondered why you can't stomach the HR department, or all your managers seem to be idiots, read this book.
The Trusted Advisor | Book review |
The Trusted Advisor
Maister, Green and Galford
Simon & Shuster
ISBN 0-743-1234-7
If you plan to go out on your own as a consultant, READ THIS BOOK.
The Dilbert Principle | Book review |
The Dilbert Principle
Scott Adams
Boxtree
ISBN 0-7522-2470-0
Hilarious and brilliant.
If you are thinking of leaving the corporate world, read this. It will push you into leaving.
And if you ttjasi veterans ever doubt your decision to get out was the right thing, read this and feel good about it again.