I'm a techie. A geek. I love to code. I tend to look at things microscopically.
Then...for whatever reason I was bored.And I switched jobs. Went to the other end of the horizon.
I became a Sales Engineer.
At the time, the job description sounded new, and strange. Sales Engineer? Pshaw...what hokum...is that even a real job?
Anyway, I interviewed, the people seemed nice enough - and I figured...Nice people = Nice Work Environment.
Couldn't be all that bad.
I was quite wrong. It wasn't bad at all - however, it was extremely different.
To begin with, there was a liberal work from home policy. I found that extremely difficult to get used to. In my mind, the only people who worked from home until then, were those 'amazing' women (typically fictitious mothers and housewives) who made $4000+ advertising on google. You know, that kind of spam.
I figured, well, the office is a stone's throw (more like a lot of stones) away from home, I'll just work from office, thank you very much. Surprise...no one comes into the office. Often I would be the only person in the office.
Factor the fact that I was completely clueless about the nature of the job itself - and for over 8 months I have been swimming helplessly in the water, more often with the terrifying and crippling fear that I will sink and drown.
Which brings me to the purpose of this blog - I want to share my challenges and solutions on this blog - learn as I go along and survive this whole transition from writing code to selling code - two completely different things.
