Shifting Gears - A Career Shift

Greetings!

I know. Its been more than three months .... yea almost 4 months since I helped my brain think a lil. Well, you know, sometimes you just cant control it. And thatz whatz goin on here these days. The life is shifting gears ... and too very fast. I could hear some strange sounds in the gear box ... but you know ... cant stop and check it right now, and its a little difficult to check your gear box on the run. Anyway, let us see where it all ends.

One second ... flash back ... just to help myself to make it understand a little more clearly.

It's been 10 years I am working in this stupid IT industry .. yea yea I know I said Stupid ... and why not ... afterall tell me ... does this IT really care about anyone else than itself. Dont believe me ... well, it is easy. any IT person ... .does she really have anything to do with the world around her. Be in India or China or Indonesia or Chille or for that matter the land of opportunities USA ... you would find a non-IT person cursing IT for everything ... for the increased cost of living, job loss due to outsourcing or for just living for that matter! So is it not stupid! I mean, forgetting to live a simple and straight life and complicating everyone's life ... wont you call it stupid !! I know, you would.

So 10 years ... I am working in this stupid industry ... and day in and day out ... breaking the same small brain on same thing ... customer satisfaction ... delivery date ... planning ... quality ... resource retention ... resource utilization .... requirement management ... cost control ... scope creep ... come one ... Gimme a break!

Last 3 months have been really crazy. The poor brain is kinna sandwitched between the regular work pressure and excessive thinking. Yea .. excessive thinking about what should I do to take a break from all this ... do I try something new ... do I just take it as it comes ... do I just leave everything and go join hands with dad in the field ... do I plan a career shift. .... and what not! And know what, finally I chose a career shift .... well havent jumped the vagon yet. But yes ... planning ... pretty heavily. Now, a friend of mine just said, "you and planning, go together very well. So well that you are planning something for last 2 years". He is not wrong ... time has been a little tough on me ... everytime I settle on something, it brings another option. It is like the Cheese Cake Factory menu ... you choose something and the next page has something more interesting to present! Ultimately you settle on Chicken Jumbalaya. So where was I ... I am planning a career shift.

Yea. It is a big decision to make ... a career shift would mean every thing new ... new challanges ... new targets ... new policies .... new techniques ... new responsibilities. But know what, that is what so interesting about the Career Shift. It is like learning to walk again ... learning to talk again. Would I be able to manage it ... well, I dont know. But you see, I learned to walk ... talk ... so this should not be any differnet than that. Well, would find a little difficult. Habits wont go so easily ... so I may have to work on it a little hard.

so wish me luck please .... would ya!