Making the switch

Finally making the switch.

It is hard to leave a place you have spent your precious five years, but sometimes we just have to make tough decision. That is exactly what I said in my farewell lunch.

My colleagues said, it will take sometimes to get used to. But they will get used to it, one week or two weeks the most.

Have started my new working life in the new company for about 4 days now, obviously there are quite a lot of differences, the common questions being asks by my ex-colleagues will be, "Life must be so much better there, huh? ", but no, I can't say which one is better, they are just different, different kind of working culture, which I still have to get use to, and which I think could be more beneficial to me, at least at this phase of my career.

Perhaps it is just because I have been too long into one place that I unknowingly get into a comfort zone, and you tend to just going through the motion when you are too familiar with what you are doing.

Chasing your dream...

So I have accepted an offer to leave my current job, and make a career change that I have been looking for all these years - to switch back to where my interest and passion is, IT.

No matter how hard my superior and I tried to work it out, my current job just not really IT-related. Yes, they tried to allocate more and more IT-related tasks (or what they think are IT-related tasks) to my current workload, but I just end up doing routine helpdesk support for the department. And being an IT-background person in an Engineering environment, I just can't help to feel that my work didn't really play a significant role to the department's direction.

Yet my current job give me so much freedom, in making decision, in scheduling my own time, and I have a very understanding boss (the best boss I have so far, but hopefully the next can be even better), good relationship with all the colleagues. To leave all this for a new environment is a tough decision, but a decision that I have to make. I just feel that it is time for me to move on. At least there are two more months to go, so I could enjoy the peaceful life here, before coming to term with the real world, haha.