Ever wonder if you took the wrong path in employment?

Paul77 said:
We were meant to get training on Cisco Meraki but I could now hold the training for it. It's been that long since it was last mentioned lol. Vsphere was on display the other day at a Hyper-convergence seminar. VMWare defo looking like the bigger player in the hypervisor sector.
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VMWare have to be ahead of the curve with Microsoft just throwing in HyperV for free on pretty much any ELA deal. Customers need real benefits to justify the cost.

They aren't doing too bad - about to move into a huge new office across the street from us.
 
TheDiablo said:
VMWare have to be ahead of the curve with Microsoft just throwing in HyperV for free on pretty much any ELA deal. Customers need real benefits to justify the cost.

They aren't doing too bad - about to move into a huge new office across the street from us.
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we have just put some stuff upto Azure, paas for now but as opportunity arise more stuff will go. Its been funny telling the dev team that they cant do half as much as they did before now the sites have been moved off our infrastructure.
 
My whole life has been one of wasted opportunities....

Believe it or not, I passed my 11 plus in the sixties, could have gone to any school I wanted.
Chose to go to Tunbridge Wells Technical because they were one of the few schools around to have a hot drinks vending machine!
Completely wasted my time, played truant for the last year or two and left at 14 and started working in a local factory.
Decided to go into the Army a year or so later and joined the Junior Leaders battalion, based in Oswestry, to train to be an officer.
Cocked up again, and kept going AWOL, eventually buying myself out despite my superiors almost begging me to stay and follow a musical career at the Corps of drums depot at RAF Bassingbourne.
I've drifted from one job to another, finally settling as a car salesman 29 years ago.
I hate my job sometimes. Sometimes I love it.
But after 29 years and at my time of life it's too late to try something else.
I've often wondered what would have happened had I knuckled down at school.
I've often wondered what would have happened had I followed my superiors wishes and gone to RAF Bassingbourne pursuing a career in music.
I dunno.
I expect I would have ended up a right knob.
 
Smiffy said:
My whole life has been one of wasted opportunities....

Believe it or not, I passed my 11 plus in the sixties, could have gone to any school I wanted.
Chose to go to Tunbridge Wells Technical because they were one of the few schools around to have a hot drinks vending machine!
Completely wasted my time, played truant for the last year or two and left at 14 and started working in a local factory.
Decided to go into the Army a year or so later and joined the Junior Leaders battalion, based in Oswestry, to train to be an officer.
Cocked up again, and kept going AWOL, eventually buying myself out despite my superiors almost begging me to stay and follow a musical career at the Corps of drums depot at RAF Bassingbourne.
I've drifted from one job to another, finally settling as a car salesman 29 years ago.
I hate my job sometimes. Sometimes I love it.
But after 29 years and at my time of life it's too late to try something else.
I've often wondered what would have happened had I knuckled down at school.
I've often wondered what would have happened had I followed my superiors wishes and gone to RAF Bassingbourne pursuing a career in music.
I dunno.
I expect I would have ended up a right knob.
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nah... to easy....
 
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delc said:
I qualified as a scientist (chemistry) back in the 1960's because that seemed to be the future. I found out afterwards that as a profession it paid a relative pittance, because we were always back room boys and girls who were supposed to enjoy our work. In retrospect I would have become an accountant because that is where the money is, even if it is boring.
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Being a chemist in the swinging sixties could have been quite profitable, I'd have thought.
 
I dont work in IT but i have been in a similar position in the pastjob wise. Sat on my rocking chair taking it easy for way too long until i started getting nightmares about being stuck in the same place in 30 years time :D

If you want to get on you need to go out there and make it happen or you will end up sat waiting forever where you are now.
 
Always wanted to be a journalist but didn't have the nous at school or the desire to slog my guts out to get good enough grades for university. When I left school I fell into working in payroll. Had the choice to chase a career but opted for an easy life and passed it up. regret getting out of the profession and not wanting to try and be "something"
 
I trained as a musician at university, walking away with a fairly average degree in music performance and musicology. Worked in security for a bit and then trained as a teacher, which I hated and never held a teaching post.

I somehow, end up in facilities management before finding myself in my current job, where I have been for the last 7 years. Initially, I loved it, but as with so many things, in recent years it has been destroyed by cuts and various incarnations of government.

Things are now to the point where I am on the lookout for a move, but into what I have no idea. As others have mentioned, it would need to be something with equivalent or better salary and better T's & C's. Maybe one day I will find my true calling, but for now, I'm going to have to stick with mediocrity!
 
Worked in call centre part time.
Went to uni, keeping job.
Graduated uni.
Worked in call centre full time.
Got a sales job.
Paid crazy bonuses and nearly imploded with stress.
Got an easy, poor paid sales job.
Started business (sales job) and made a wad and nearly imploded with stress.

Stopped. Contemplated. Became scared. Decided I wanted to be happy for once.

Made the decision to dedicate my life to helping others. Now work with vulnerable children whilst simultaneously studying for a Social Work degree.

Life is good.

I have been poor, well-off and comfortable. Nothing, NOTHING compares to being happy.
 
I opened a coffee shop when I was 21 using borrowed money, 3 weeks later I had £32K in my account. 6 months after that I took up golf and played every day for 1½yrs, ate in restaurants every evening and went to casinos every night..... slowly watched the business go down the pan from the fairways and couldn't be arsed to save it. :mad:

Opened a property maintenance business as I felt the great outdoors calling, got real busy after just one month so had a couple of guys working for me......... whilst I ended up back on the golf course :whistle: made quite a bit of money which I blew on the stockmarket (lost £25K the day the world trade centers collapsed) and decided that I was better off alive than dead so played even more golf until that business failed.

I thought I'd get back indoors so bought a PC and learned how to build websites and how to monetise them, became pretty special at SEO and held the No1 spot on Google for HUGE TERMS such as "Free adverting" " Local classifieds" "business advertising" and 100's of others and started to make a decent living doing practically nothing but tweaking websites here and there.... and then one day I just couldn't stand sitting in front of a PC any more... so closed it down.

Now I just potter around doing bits and pieces of work here and there, I've not got much money but I'm pretty happy, there's not really anything I actually want, the mortgage is tiny (so is the house), I play golf when my back isn't hurting, I go to friends/family and drink tea all day and watch a movie on Sky pretty much every evening.... and a bit of porn every now and then :p Occasionally I do some paid work... enough to buy cigarettes and petrol, and green fees :thup:

Regrets? none
Mistakes? many
 
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c1973 said:
Being a chemist in the swinging sixties could have been quite profitable, I'd have thought.
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Possibly, if you didn't mind risking becoming a guest of Her Majesty for a few years. Only way out of near poverty was to get into management, which I managed to do for several years, before being made redundant. Ended up working as an accountant, and it was boring! :(
 
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Worked in Finance for 20 years since leaving school and if I had my time again I would certainly take a different path. To be fair it has opened up a few doors to me though, I was bored in the Uk and when I was approached about a job over here I thought I'd take it, do a year and then head back - 7 years, wife and kid later and I'm still here enjoying it.
 
virtuocity said:
Worked in call centre part time.
Went to uni, keeping job.
Graduated uni.
Worked in call centre full time.
Got a sales job.
Paid crazy bonuses and nearly imploded with stress.
Got an easy, poor paid sales job.
Started business (sales job) and made a wad and nearly imploded with stress.

Stopped. Contemplated. Became scared. Decided I wanted to be happy for once.

Made the decision to dedicate my life to helping others. Now work with vulnerable children whilst simultaneously studying for a Social Work degree.

Life is good.

I have been poor, well-off and comfortable. Nothing, NOTHING compares to being happy.
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Wise words.....well done you.
 
Made some pretty good career choices. Left school and became an apprentice joiner did that for 5 years and got really bored so decided to join the Royal Navy as an engineer. I've been doing this for 10 years now and have had the time of my life. Had a baby last year and things Completley changed! Handed my notice in in April and leave next year. Time with my family is important and the Navy isn't a good way to see family! Being away for 10 months of the year can get in the way of that!

Moving onto the next chapter of my life soon hopefully still as an engineer.
 
Started on the VMware Network Virtualisation roadmap last night with VCA-NV. Had some good advice yesterday from a solutions architect at Cisco with some new things coming up in a few years so my thoughts are now going down the line of doing my current job, and self training in CCNP and VMWare VCP. Give a realistic goal to it to and hopefully it'll work out good in the long run.

Nobody made a change by talking about it :)
 
22 years in the RAF playing music and golf all over Europe, then turned pro in 2004 so very happy with my lot so far. Semi retired now which I've discovered I am very good at.
Can't complain :)
 
Went to college at 17, had a bit of fun which ended up with the unexpected news I was going to be a dad. Did the honourable thing, left college took on an apprenticeship as a joiner. Worked hard for very little and supported my now wife and son. Now have my own business with my boy in with me.

Life might not always pan out how you want it but make the most of it. Would I change anything? ABSOLUTELY NOT.
 
Joined the Army at 16, still here 35 years later, definitely made the right choice.
 
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