work and IT @ 21 Jan 2008 02:47 pm by ayoi
It’s not about the car OK? It’s about me. From a young and immature lad to (still) young and a man who has a lovely wife, 2 lovely and very very naughty daughters and blessed with a twin or two boys under his responsibility. From a young lad who was hoping to play his trade in corporate world (yeah, I did take ICSA course and to be honest get through till the pre-professional papers) to a person who finally found his niche or his passion in the ICT world. From a young lad who was working in numerous startup companies to hopefully settled down at a public listed company. And from a person who learned about a company administration ( from law to company secretarial practice) to a person who fell in love with ICT especially in networking and security.
And now it seems that I am back to what I’ve started before, instead of dealing more on technical stuff, I mean doing analysis works, I’ve been given the tasks that deal more on bird eye view or macro. Anyway still I can perform necessary Research and Development on improving our capability in providing world class solution to our Clients. As our company provides services and solutions instead of product selling, I still and do believe that the most precious asset is the knowledge possessed by our staff. Any products where in our case SIEM/SEM/SIM are basically the same with our competitors and the only thing that will differentiate between one MSSP with another is the pool of knowledgeable and competent human resource in providing a good and quality services. And of cause proper development, training and career path+layout of this asset need to be carefully planned and implement.
Sometimes I do feel that I’m inching away from my original task every single day. And yeah, I do wonder is it because I am deemed not competent to perform my original tasks and that’s why I’ve been given another tasks? Maybe.. I can’t answer that either..
well bro, the truth is, if you can cope with management thingy, just stick with that if you can penetrate the position. Techie position is a low than management. The position in management is much better and can be a making-money-position if you are in it rather than technical guy. But, if you are planning to stay with technical and no intension for moving to management area, job hopping is the solution. For me, i’m not into the management because i’m not good in it, how ever, if i got the opportunity to involve in it, why not? Ermm, maybe not as a report-guy.
me always be the second after Akram? hmm…
The management assigned you another task because you’re capable of doing it. I keep on asking you million times “sampai bila nak jadi techy? sampai retired?” If you tak keje with scan sampai tua pun perhaps you have your own company where the management skills are needed.
we’ve discussed about this matter byk kali…. there’s nothing to worry about.