Time marches on and maybe e a decade or more has passed and you wonder what happened.
We'll, it has been over a decade with working for Oakley / Raytheon / ForcePoint "powered by Raytheon" (same job, different ownership / structure), but for the last number of years, I've been planning another path for myself.
Can't really complain about the job per say, good pay / benefits and people, but it NEVER changed. That is a huge issue with me. (this is all just my opinion you understand) It maybe just my perception (I did ask others to confirm) but it's hard to see the same process, thoughts and actions or in-actions occur over and over, for more than a decade. This would have been fine except the nothing else in life stays the same and this very much holds true for software companies.
What may have worked for a few customers may not work for twice as many customers.
Keeping all the old features and adding more and more features may not scale.
Releases appeared to be slower with fewer and fewer features.
Ignoring industry practices and trying to do things "our way" that resulted in features not getting released and nothing to show for the lost time and resources.
All of the above can apply to Apple's dark days, IBM (most of the time), Microsoft until recently. These are not uncommon phases that a company goes through. The company (like Microsoft) may even be profitable during the whole time, but loose relevance externally and talent and motivation internally. Like me.
I needed progress, change and a sense of purpose.
I was hoping for changes that would never come, so I planned for my own changes as there was no reasons for keeping me.
So my planning timetable had me leaving my job and I did. I had the means to quit and my own plans to follow. There was nothing to keep me where I was. I wish there had been but it did not exist.
I'm very happy on my new path. I've found that it's hard to gain new perspectives on issues, problems, while still contained in a box. I like being outside of the box as the view is much wider and vast.
The world is large and I've got much of it to explore. I'm hoping to blog more often now.
Take care and enjoy.
We'll, it has been over a decade with working for Oakley / Raytheon / ForcePoint "powered by Raytheon" (same job, different ownership / structure), but for the last number of years, I've been planning another path for myself.
Can't really complain about the job per say, good pay / benefits and people, but it NEVER changed. That is a huge issue with me. (this is all just my opinion you understand) It maybe just my perception (I did ask others to confirm) but it's hard to see the same process, thoughts and actions or in-actions occur over and over, for more than a decade. This would have been fine except the nothing else in life stays the same and this very much holds true for software companies.
What may have worked for a few customers may not work for twice as many customers.
Keeping all the old features and adding more and more features may not scale.
Releases appeared to be slower with fewer and fewer features.
Ignoring industry practices and trying to do things "our way" that resulted in features not getting released and nothing to show for the lost time and resources.
All of the above can apply to Apple's dark days, IBM (most of the time), Microsoft until recently. These are not uncommon phases that a company goes through. The company (like Microsoft) may even be profitable during the whole time, but loose relevance externally and talent and motivation internally. Like me.
I needed progress, change and a sense of purpose.
I was hoping for changes that would never come, so I planned for my own changes as there was no reasons for keeping me.
So my planning timetable had me leaving my job and I did. I had the means to quit and my own plans to follow. There was nothing to keep me where I was. I wish there had been but it did not exist.
I'm very happy on my new path. I've found that it's hard to gain new perspectives on issues, problems, while still contained in a box. I like being outside of the box as the view is much wider and vast.
The world is large and I've got much of it to explore. I'm hoping to blog more often now.
Take care and enjoy.
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