My last blog post was from February 2024. That was over a year ago (at the time of this blog post, which you are currently reading). Far too long! And now I’m writing a new blog post titled “Back to the Mothership.” What does that mean?
I’m glad you asked.
What happened?
Towards the end of March, I lost my job. I was laid off. It was quite a surprise and also a bitter disappointment. Especially when there had been no prior warnings or any discussions with the boss or anything like that. And especially when the Outlook invitation was “Personnel / Goal Setting” (that sounds promising, right?). And when someone from HR is also in the meeting room, you can put two and two together.
But that’s in the past now. I’m over it. Done and forgotten (but not forgiven). I will miss the team I was privileged to lead there. Including me, half the team has resigned or was resigned within three weeks.
Wow, bummer, what now?
I have spent a lot of time with my family in the last two months since I was laid off, spending a lot of time with my son and my wife. And I’ve also been able to get a lot of things in and around the house in order. So I cleaned all the windows (finally, once again after a few years), repaired the robotic lawnmower and gave it a new garage, and did a lot of those little things that take time and that I’ve been putting off until now.
But I also took time to figure out what I really wanted professionally. I enjoyed some good discussions with my wife (she is an emergency doctor, so she knows urgent and special situations), and also with good friends about my situation. What are my strengths? What skills do I have? What is my expertise? Is computer science (well, I mean the big IT), especially the field of virtualization and technology, still my passion? And the answer to this last question is clearly “YES”.
And what’s that with the Mothership now?
Now I can let the cat out of the bag, since the contracts are signed. I’ll be starting a new position as a Senior System Engineer in the VCF stream at the company “soulTec” on June 2nd. I will work a lot with everything related to vSphere, datacenter, a lot of customer projects, both onsite and remote, and I will learn a lot! I’m so excited and anxious, I can’t wait to show up at the office for the first time on Monday.