This is what I did. I took the red pill and so the new year will bring some changes for me. I will be leaving the position I am in. Moving on to another division within the msg systems ag, called Insurance Business Consulting. I will be part of the IT-Strategy and Architecture department and as such working with our customers on their visions and needs. As expected, I have to change my working habits a bit. In the past I was frequently helping a lot of projects during the year (~40/year makes roughly 300 projects in the past years ;) ). From now on, I will work on fewer but probably bigger projects and have the opportunity to structure and design a lot more and do less firefighting.
All this will hopefully not influence my involvement with the Java EE / GlassFish / Oracle community out there. I'll try to get posts out as usual. Even if it looks like, I can not avoid to spend one or two words on insurance related topics in the future :) So, thanks again for listening and reading. Moving on with an exciting 2011!
Best of luck to you in your new position Markus! I sure hope we get to keep reading your great blogs. Cheers, James Bayer
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Markus, you've been a great supporter of GlassFish!
ReplyDeleteThank you guys! I am very looking forward to it!
ReplyDelete@Arun: I hope, I will stay one ;)
Best of luck Markus. Keep up the energetic blogging!
ReplyDeleteThanks alexis! I will!
ReplyDeleteCongtaulations Markus! I'm sure you'll bring fresh insight to your new department, plus, as they say "a change is as good as a rest" (I'm not convinced myself!).
ReplyDeleteGood luck, Markus! :)
ReplyDeletegood luck ;-)
ReplyDeleteJason, Thorsten: Thanks :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats, Markus! I look forward to your insight into architectural issues.
ReplyDeleteBob! Thanks! Looking forward to publish more relevant content for your archbeat community ;)
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