Comments on: Should An IT Leader Follow His/Her Dream Career? http://www.theaccidentalitleader.com/career/should-an-it-leader-follow-hisher-dream-career The Premier Blog For Learning How To Attract. Motivate, And Retain Top IT Staff Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:01:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Dr. Jim Anderson http://www.theaccidentalitleader.com/career/should-an-it-leader-follow-hisher-dream-career/comment-page-1#comment-339 Dr. Jim Anderson Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:57:01 +0000 http://www.theaccidentalitleader.com/?p=496#comment-339 Ed: wow - it sure seems like you've lived several IT lives! With all of the money that is getting ready to flow into healthcare over the next year or so, get ready for another set of opportunities. Who knows, this might be your big break - maybe time to start your own business...? Ed: wow – it sure seems like you’ve lived several IT lives! With all of the money that is getting ready to flow into healthcare over the next year or so, get ready for another set of opportunities. Who knows, this might be your big break – maybe time to start your own business…?

]]> By: Ed http://www.theaccidentalitleader.com/career/should-an-it-leader-follow-hisher-dream-career/comment-page-1#comment-337 Ed Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:08:08 +0000 http://www.theaccidentalitleader.com/?p=496#comment-337 IF MONEY WERN'T AN ISSUE? I'd be working for a former employer (myself) with some kind of I-net based business (trying now to get a grapics related opportunity going), I'd be doing some traveling, mainly in the summers taking my children (two older, two younger) and grandchildren to places they've never been before and may never get to see otherwise. I'd be doing some writing (used to make up stories to help my children get to sleep when they were very young, regret now that I never wrote those down) fiction/non-fiction. I'd be studying/learning new things I've got an interest in, i.e. automotive technology, electronics, drawing, languages, science, etc. I'd like to find or develop an I-net business model that my children/grand children can someday use for themselves, to allow them to pursue their own interests and learn as much as they can. When I graduated high school my father gave me a watch as a gift along with a note that read 'time is of the essence'; for the greater part of my life I never understood what that meant. He died 3 days after my graduation from a heart attack. WHAT MAKES THAT JOB MORE ATTRACTIVE.....? Primarily the time freedom it would give me to pursue my other interests and spend time with my children and grand children. HAVE I EVER TAKEN STEPS.....? Yes, I got a taste of what that would be like when I did some consulting work for a brief time (the taste), never forgot it. WHAT WOULD IT TAKE FINANCIALLY.....? Enough funds to cover my monthly expenses for my younger children (now teenagers) and myself. Thanks for the opportunity to just comment; btw, I too am an IT person, started as a computer operator in the military way, way back in 1973; went from that to writing my first computer program 3 years later, to developing my first commerical system 5 years after, to developing a small IT Department from basically nothing 6 years after that...most of the past 36 years has been in the public sector of IT. Today I help provide IT support for a small Federal hospital facility in Western SD. Butting heads with a new Supervisor has brought back the memory of the 'taste' I once had. IF MONEY WERN’T AN ISSUE? I’d be working for a former employer (myself) with some kind of I-net based business (trying now to get a grapics related opportunity going), I’d be doing some traveling, mainly in the summers taking my children (two older, two younger) and grandchildren to places they’ve never been before and may never get to see otherwise. I’d be doing some writing (used to make up stories to help my children get to sleep when they were very young, regret now that I never wrote those down) fiction/non-fiction. I’d be studying/learning new things I’ve got an interest in, i.e. automotive technology, electronics, drawing, languages, science, etc. I’d like to find or develop an I-net business model that my children/grand children can someday use for themselves, to allow them to pursue their own interests and learn as much as they can. When I graduated high school my father gave me a watch as a gift along with a note that read ‘time is of the essence’; for the greater part of my life I never understood what that meant. He died 3 days after my graduation from a heart attack.

WHAT MAKES THAT JOB MORE ATTRACTIVE…..? Primarily the time freedom it would give me to pursue my other interests and spend time with my children and grand children.

HAVE I EVER TAKEN STEPS…..? Yes, I got a taste of what that would be like when I did some consulting work for a brief time (the taste), never forgot it.

WHAT WOULD IT TAKE FINANCIALLY…..? Enough funds to cover my monthly expenses for my younger children (now teenagers) and myself.

Thanks for the opportunity to just comment; btw, I too am an IT person, started as a computer operator in the military way, way back in 1973; went from that to writing my first computer program 3 years later, to developing my first commerical system 5 years after, to developing a small IT Department from basically nothing 6 years after that…most of the past 36 years has been in the public sector of IT. Today I help provide IT support for a small Federal hospital facility in Western SD. Butting heads with a new Supervisor has brought back the memory of the ‘taste’ I once had.

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