I Couldn't Keep A Real Job
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In December of 2007 I was feeling burned out and decided to leave the consulting world to get a Real JobTM. It didn’t take me long to find a contract at Microsoft as a Partner Technical Consultant but I only lasted four months there before I left to accept a position at Azaleos, a Managed Service Provider located in Seattle. I started the position as a Sr. Messaging Engineer and by January of 2009 I had been promoted twice and ended up as Director of Operations with 22 direct reports.
However I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m just not cut out to work for someone else so effective Monday April 20th I will be offering my services through Cohesive Logic LLC, a technical services firm focused on Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint & Office Communications Server. It’s been a great run and I’ll be leaving behind some very smart people that I have really enjoyed working with. Can’t say I’ll miss working in a cube though…
As I’ll be traveling again I will have much more time to update this blog so I plan on increasing my writing skills (a.k.a. learning to write all over again) by posting here more frequently. I’ll also be reinstating View From Here, which is something I greatly enjoyed.
I’ll try to keep the content fresh and interesting, so do me a favor and subscribe to my feed and keep me company on my travels by leaving comments! :)
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Congratulations! I wondered how long that would take ;)
Make sure you update the Testimonial and Special Interest Item on the front page of Cohesive Logic…
-Sean
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Thanks!
Yeah, there are quite a few more things that need updated on cohesivelogic.com. Until a couple days ago I had an old school “Under Construction” graphic hanging out on the front page. :) I’ve got about 6 completely blank pages to fill as well. Good times.
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