Looks like it happened again 🙂 only this time it was more like an invite than me deciding to move on from my current employer.
Several weeks back (almost 2 months back), a friend of mine (who happened to be my old manager at Paragon about 6 – 7 years ago) pinged me to meet up for a chat and a coffee to talk about nothing in particular.
Obviously we talked about all sorts of stuff given that last time we got together was a few years back (pre pandemic if not mistaking or during one of the “restrictions lifted” periods) and then he dropped the bomb.
He told me about the company he’s working for, what they do, what their plans are going forward and what sorts of issues they are facing and invited me to join their team.
It did not take long for me to decide that this is an interesting opportunity for me so I went ahead and had a chat with my manager at Oracle letting him know about what has happened and that I wanted to take the job.
Without going into too many details, come June 11th 2024 I started working at World Host Group as an Infrastructure Architect and every day I’m getting more and more excited about what I’m being involved in.
I don’t see this transition as moving away from something bad to something good but rather more like I’m transitioning from one field (Security) to another field (Web Hosting / Infrastructure).
For someone like me (a Jack of all trades who just loves IT) this new role could not be a more perfect fit at this time as it allows me to use (most if not) everything I’ve learned so far to make a difference for my team at WHG.
Let’s see what the future brings 🙂