Be Careful What You Wish For
// November 9th, 2008 // No Comments » // Life
Free at last. I’ve done it…finally. When I joined big-giant-financial-services firm two years ago, I saw it as a mixed blessing. I was escaping what I was certain were the end-times at my once-and-great startup company and the uncertainty and career stagnation that brought. I was gaining a career opportunity to move out of IT — which had become increasingly commodotized over the past few years — and into online marketing. But a long career at a giant company was then, and remained, hard to visualize.
My wife said then that this was a bridge from what was to what will be, and to not get down by thinking my future was inexorably tied to this one company or my role in it. I’ve now come to the end of that bridge and have started a new company with 3 long-time associates. My last day at the old gig was yesterday. I’m excited about the new thing in more ways than I can describe. It’ll be the most intensive career growth period I’ve had a in a long time. It’ll stretch me in all the ways I’ve wanted to be stretched. Most importantly, it’ll give me the flexibility, freedom, and opportunity to succeed personally in ways I never could have at the last job.
It will be a lot of work, but on balance I’m hoping less hours than the combined effort working my day job and trying to get my new company off the ground has been these last 8 months. Entrepreneurship runs in my blood on all sides. We have a collective history of not wanting to be the small fish in the large pond.
I’ve felt that this was the perfect time in my life to do this and I’ve wanted a new opportunity like this to come along for years. I always said if another viable startup comes along I would jump on it…so here I go!
