A New Adventure Soon...

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Soon, in roughly two weeks, a new adventure will come my way.  This adventure comes by way of a new job in a new field involving Information Technology.  I'm nervous but excited at the same time.  One one hand, there is already a LOT of drama going on in my life with regards to my family/kids, and on the other hand I'm excited because of many reasons.


The many reasons I'm excited are:

** I'm moving away from the Industrial sector into an Education sector with regards to IT.  This will bring some new and fresh challenges my way that I believe could motivate me further in my field.

** One of these said challenges is cross-platform integration.  I haven't had a chance to work cross-platform, however going forward i'm going to have to learn these other platforms really fast to succeed.

** With all of my current struggles, this change might be the catalyst my family needs to screw their heads on straight.


A few of the reasons I'm nervous are:

** My family is going through some struggles both financially and in-house, and changing employers mid-process will be difficult.  Some of the financial burden might fall on our shoulders directly.  Some of the doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, specialists, pediatricians, etc. will drop us because of a change in insurance providers.

** The "human in a new environment" syndrome has began a slow creep in my mind.  I know I need to block them out, but it's hard.  New people, new environment, new setting, new systems, etc.  Will I be walking into a lion's den?  Maybe Tiamat's Lair in Hell?  

** I don't know as much about my field of study that I think I do; there is serious levels of doubt about my abilities as an IT Guy.  When was the last time that I touched a MacBook beyond a simple Office fix?  Apple products scare me because of how locked down and how "specially certified" you need to be to work on them.

** Will I be able to pull myself out of the current "work funk" I am in, or will this just be another repeat of of where I work now, with supervisors constantly questioning my work performance due to an ever-increasing demand and mismanagement of time at the supervisor level, which trickles downhill (but we aren't going to talk about that right now).


For now, I feel I need to ride the wave, take it as the chips fall, and adjust fire appropriately.  I can only convey so much before I will need to dump on someone.  

Good thing my confidence in people reading my blogs is low, or I'd be seriously concerned about backlash from internet trolls.


Wish me luck in the coming weeks

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