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Category Archives: career
This Job Isn’t For Everyone
The longer I spend on the value added reseller(VAR) side of the house, the more I realize this job isn’t for everyone. If you stop and think about it, it can be downright depressing at times due to the following … Continue reading
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Does It Bother You When You Fail?
I was interviewing for a job several years ago and I was asked a Cisco routing question regarding administrative distance. I was thinking about the answer and managed to get it confused with advertised distance, which is related to the … Continue reading
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How Bad Do You Want It?
A friend of mine posted this on Facebook, and I felt compelled to share it. Although the primary focus is on physical training, it has massive parallels to IT and “brain training”. Watch the whole thing. It takes 5 minutes. … Continue reading
One Month Into The Channel
I thought I would take some time to explain what my experience has been working for a VAR(Value Added Reseller) for over a month now. For those of you who haven’t read my previous writings on the recent job change(I … Continue reading
Getting Plugged In
I’ve talked to a lot of people lately about careers and personal networks. Due to the IT outsourcing of my last employer to HP, you can imagine that this was a hot topic among my former co-workers and other people … Continue reading
Diving Into The Channel
People who follow me on Twitter or in real life know that my company recently outsourced IT operations to HP. As a result of this agreement between the two companies, I was offered a job with HP. I was faced … Continue reading
Decisions, decisions.
I have come to an important crossroads in my career. A decision has been thrust upon me, and not by my choosing. Recently, my company entered into a long term agreement with HP to outsource application development and infrastructure operations … Continue reading
Who Do You Trust?
Let me start off by reminding you that I work for a corporation that is considered an end-user of technology services. I am not a consultant and I don’t work for a vendor. I do a lot of vendor research … Continue reading
Tech Field Day 5 Is Over. Now What?
I made it back to Nashville before noon on Saturday. A cross country red eye flight with a short layover in Atlanta put me into Nashville just in time. I was able to get a few hours with my kids, … Continue reading
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Be A Part Of History
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the … Continue reading