I love my job and what I do, but need to love my job somewhere else when i can't do it where I am.
The summer is closing to an end and everyone is back from their summer vacations. Life is slowly getting back to normal here in Norway. Myself I started the summer with paternity leave, and saying home with my 9 moths old baby girl called Snø (Snow) We’ll be home together until the end of September, when I’ll be ready to dive head first into what will become the most interesting time of my working career. When I started my leave I took the opportunity to resign and quit my job at Creuna. It was a tough decision but I felt that i did not have any choice in the matter. I really like the people I’m working with and hey are great at what they are doing with front end development for web, but through the last 8-9 months I’ve started to realize (maybe a bit late?) that none of the things I was hired for to do, and was “promised” would ever happen in any foreseeable future, and if I ever was going to get the things done like I want them to, I had to act now.
As a result, I got in touch with a friend of mine that was stepping down as managing director for a publishing company. He had worked there for several years and felt the time was right to do something new. Together, we made plans to start our own business. It’s time to have more fun at work, and to make money for yourself and not for faceless shareholders eager to make even more money without any understanding of having to spend _some_ money upfront if you want to acquire new knowledge and make business out of that knowledge. It’s like the auto manufacturer one day decides to create jet fighters and hire a few new auto mechanics to design and develop the fighters. Learn by doing, meanwhile we’re selling it.
I was hired to build a kick-ass mobile department and company awareness around mobile technology, trends and possibilities and I will, only now I’ll do it for ourselves through my own company, in our own image. We’ll build kick-ass smartphone and tablet apps and magazines.
The other great thing happening is for the Windows Phone Developer Community I started two years ago. I had a meeting with Microsoft today talking about how to create an even better community and help it grow, make it interesting to a wider audience working with Windows Phone as developers and designers. I’ll write more on this later this month but don’t miss out on our upcoming meetup on Thursday 22. September.
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The Autumn of 2011 looks to be great!
Commentary | August 18, 2011 by Alexander Viken
I love my job and what I do, but need to love my job somewhere else when i can't do it where I am.
The summer is closing to an end and everyone is back from their summer vacations. Life is slowly getting back to normal here in Norway. Myself I started the summer with paternity leave, and saying home with my 9 moths old baby girl called Snø (Snow) We’ll be home together until the end of September, when I’ll be ready to dive head first into what will become the most interesting time of my working career. When I started my leave I took the opportunity to resign and quit my job at Creuna. It was a tough decision but I felt that i did not have any choice in the matter. I really like the people I’m working with and hey are great at what they are doing with front end development for web, but through the last 8-9 months I’ve started to realize (maybe a bit late?) that none of the things I was hired for to do, and was “promised” would ever happen in any foreseeable future, and if I ever was going to get the things done like I want them to, I had to act now.
As a result, I got in touch with a friend of mine that was stepping down as managing director for a publishing company. He had worked there for several years and felt the time was right to do something new. Together, we made plans to start our own business. It’s time to have more fun at work, and to make money for yourself and not for faceless shareholders eager to make even more money without any understanding of having to spend _some_ money upfront if you want to acquire new knowledge and make business out of that knowledge. It’s like the auto manufacturer one day decides to create jet fighters and hire a few new auto mechanics to design and develop the fighters. Learn by doing, meanwhile we’re selling it.
I was hired to build a kick-ass mobile department and company awareness around mobile technology, trends and possibilities and I will, only now I’ll do it for ourselves through my own company, in our own image. We’ll build kick-ass smartphone and tablet apps and magazines.
The other great thing happening is for the Windows Phone Developer Community I started two years ago. I had a meeting with Microsoft today talking about how to create an even better community and help it grow, make it interesting to a wider audience working with Windows Phone as developers and designers. I’ll write more on this later this month but don’t miss out on our upcoming meetup on Thursday 22. September.
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