Wahesh
The Forefather of The Kennel
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Being someone who had an ICT background, I was a Systems Administrator - for many years too. I spent over 8 years at the same company. Now i'll admit that about halfway through my tenure there, I went a little stale and lazy and couldn't be motivated to apply for better jobs. I blame myself for that. The reason for that is that I knew the restructure was coming and was hoping to apply for a better job there so I could stay with the same company.
Then lost my job due to aforementioned restructure. The funny thing is that restructure should've happened at about the 3-4 year mark I was there... when I was waiting for it... not the 8th year. Then I hit a rough patch after that. I couldn't find permanent work for 2 years. I just kept swinging from contract to contract, one bad job after another, going weeks, sometimes even months without work. I was able to land job interviews, but couldn't really get myself over the line. Thankfully at the time I didn't have a mortgage.
Now, I'm an office manager - pretty much a career goal that has been achieved. However I know that things don't last forever and all good things must come to an end, but where I am now is the break I really needed - at least for my CV. It's imminent that another restructure will happen around here... that's all that seems to happen in Government.
I don't think I'll ever return working in the ICT sector - at least not in the technical aspect. I've had enough of that. It changes too frequently too quickly. Not enough "settlement" time.
Then lost my job due to aforementioned restructure. The funny thing is that restructure should've happened at about the 3-4 year mark I was there... when I was waiting for it... not the 8th year. Then I hit a rough patch after that. I couldn't find permanent work for 2 years. I just kept swinging from contract to contract, one bad job after another, going weeks, sometimes even months without work. I was able to land job interviews, but couldn't really get myself over the line. Thankfully at the time I didn't have a mortgage.
Now, I'm an office manager - pretty much a career goal that has been achieved. However I know that things don't last forever and all good things must come to an end, but where I am now is the break I really needed - at least for my CV. It's imminent that another restructure will happen around here... that's all that seems to happen in Government.
I don't think I'll ever return working in the ICT sector - at least not in the technical aspect. I've had enough of that. It changes too frequently too quickly. Not enough "settlement" time.