Career change time!
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:43 am
for the past few years I've been working in the IP Core area of my company
Essentially managing the internet connections, (BGP stuff) interconnects with Peers (how the internet traverses this part of the world) as well as supporting all the large companies (everything from 5m DSL type circuits, up to 10GB connections)
It's been incredibly stressful, unfun, high workload, low reward etc etc
in short, I've come to really dislike the job, the volume of paperwork/documentation required by it etc etc and I've been casually looking for a change of pace for a while
This past week I had my interview for the replacement job, and just need to pass the Work Simulation/physical and it's mine
I'm going from sitting at desk, controlling the network from the city, to moving out to a small city(big town really) and being the Districtman out there. I'll be back to installing telephones, data circuits, climbing poles, etc etc
moving from the capitol of the province(250k+ population) to the smallest city in the province (just under 6k people)
it'll be a better place to raise my kid, and compared to what I'm doing now, way less stressful
career/technology wise it's a big step backwards, but I'm not looking to climb the ivory tower, and the pay is equivalent
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Essentially managing the internet connections, (BGP stuff) interconnects with Peers (how the internet traverses this part of the world) as well as supporting all the large companies (everything from 5m DSL type circuits, up to 10GB connections)
It's been incredibly stressful, unfun, high workload, low reward etc etc
in short, I've come to really dislike the job, the volume of paperwork/documentation required by it etc etc and I've been casually looking for a change of pace for a while
This past week I had my interview for the replacement job, and just need to pass the Work Simulation/physical and it's mine
I'm going from sitting at desk, controlling the network from the city, to moving out to a small city(big town really) and being the Districtman out there. I'll be back to installing telephones, data circuits, climbing poles, etc etc
moving from the capitol of the province(250k+ population) to the smallest city in the province (just under 6k people)
it'll be a better place to raise my kid, and compared to what I'm doing now, way less stressful
career/technology wise it's a big step backwards, but I'm not looking to climb the ivory tower, and the pay is equivalent
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