Information Technology Dark Side

For years, this blog has carried the sub-title “Corporate IT Survival Guide”. It was a testament to my efforts to find success and satisfaction in the oh-so-complicated social nightmare that is the corporate IT cost center.

Over the years, satisfaction became more important than success to me. I realized that hating my job was ruining parts of my life. It was hurting my health, my friendships, and my family relationships. It wasn’t hurting my wallet, and right up until the moment I gave up, I was doing reasonably well at the success side.

I don’t work in Corporate IT anymore. I work at a small software company as a developer. I’m responsible for quality assurance, customer support, and some product development. Yeah, I’m like, 2 1/2 IT departments. I think that’s totally awesome.

I always postulated that the reason corporate IT sucks is because nobody sells what IT builds, thus my quest to work at a software company. Now that literally everything I do is sold, I find I really like it. Everything is different. Sure, there are some of the pressures you’d expect from being so close to the company’s revenue, but it doesn’t bother me.

At any rate, I’ve been doing this for a year now and I find I don’t really care about corporate IT anymore. This makes it increasingly difficult to blog about corporate IT. It’s time for a change.

So, as of now, this blog is no longer Tech Dark Side: A Corporate IT Survival Guide. IT is now Tech Dark Side: Struggles of a Self-Taught Coder.

The content is obviously going to change to reflect this as well. Here are some specific changes you are likely to notice:

I hope this change helps keep my blog relevant to me and doesn’t cause all my readers to jump ship. We’ll see.

Dave

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