It's not easy being that guy (and it still is likely to be a guy) that has worked in IT for the past 20 years, transitioned the organisation into the PC world, built up a complex infrastructure and finally had people accept that you were right about these "PC things" (around the time Windows XP entered our lives).
It's not easy for so many different reasons including, "Now it all hangs together no-one bothers saying thanks any more", to, "You want to plug what into my network?" It can all be quite wearing and to top it off you now hear that your organisation wants to dump it all and give it to Google!
"So, now what do I do?"
At this point you have 3 options:
Fighting the business, all the staff and the wider wave of cloud computing crashing down upon all businesses is, let's be honest, quite a tough road to travel and, in my experience, has never been a career-forwarding option.
But you don't have to give it all up, heck why should you, this is your career we're talking about! Cast your mind back to when you career started, can you remember what it felt like back in the day? There was the 'wow' factor of the graphical interface, the first tentative uses of a mouse, and even email was simply amazing. All these made people smile and had them talking - you were da man.
Who remembers what it was like to go to gigs back in the day? Mates, music and that energetic buzz of being there. Over time the bands of your youth moved from local gigs to stadium tours, then to being the the CDs of your flat which became the iTunes collections of your house and eventually the nostalgic radio plays of your home. And now, when those bands tour, it's the same music but everyone is sat down and politely claps. What's changed ... you!
Of course you could remember why it was that you went to see bands in the first place and then go and see new bands. "What, new bands - but they're not as good as [fill in the band you grew up with here]?" Yes they are as I can testify having been recently unexpectedly blown away by Alabama 3 who totally revived my gig-going buzz.
Your music, new buzz
Imagine that the music is what people want to do (the "features") and the bands are the delivery method ("PC", "cloud" ...) then some of the tunes are old ones but with a modern twist (Gmail = email), some take a classic and remixed it with others (Docs = word processing + chat + email + concurrent editing) and some are new, yet obvious, we struggle to wonder where we've heard before (access on any device).
Your old bands are grand, they still do their thing but the new bands play differently and have an energy of youth. The cloud is your new band, it delivers that buzz again, and it's all there for you if you want - let's rock out together.
(written by the oldest Cloud Sherpa who is constantly scaring the young 'uns with the buzz the cloud gives him)
It's not easy for so many different reasons including, "Now it all hangs together no-one bothers saying thanks any more", to, "You want to plug what into my network?" It can all be quite wearing and to top it off you now hear that your organisation wants to dump it all and give it to Google!
"So, now what do I do?"
At this point you have 3 options:
- Move on to pastures new
- Fight them every step of the way
- Remember why you got into the job in the first place
Fighting the business, all the staff and the wider wave of cloud computing crashing down upon all businesses is, let's be honest, quite a tough road to travel and, in my experience, has never been a career-forwarding option.
But you don't have to give it all up, heck why should you, this is your career we're talking about! Cast your mind back to when you career started, can you remember what it felt like back in the day? There was the 'wow' factor of the graphical interface, the first tentative uses of a mouse, and even email was simply amazing. All these made people smile and had them talking - you were da man.
Of course you could remember why it was that you went to see bands in the first place and then go and see new bands. "What, new bands - but they're not as good as [fill in the band you grew up with here]?" Yes they are as I can testify having been recently unexpectedly blown away by Alabama 3 who totally revived my gig-going buzz.
Your music, new buzz
Imagine that the music is what people want to do (the "features") and the bands are the delivery method ("PC", "cloud" ...) then some of the tunes are old ones but with a modern twist (Gmail = email), some take a classic and remixed it with others (Docs = word processing + chat + email + concurrent editing) and some are new, yet obvious, we struggle to wonder where we've heard before (access on any device).
Your old bands are grand, they still do their thing but the new bands play differently and have an energy of youth. The cloud is your new band, it delivers that buzz again, and it's all there for you if you want - let's rock out together.
(written by the oldest Cloud Sherpa who is constantly scaring the young 'uns with the buzz the cloud gives him)
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