Career

Recently I've been suffering of a very common problem: difficult to take some decision, or, even better, difficulty to understand what I want for my career. But, after lots of tries, thousands of hours thinking about this subject and some books later, I have some good ideas! : )

I've already written it, but I'd like to repeat. I like to work over problems solution. I know it because I see almost everything like a problem to be solved. It can be a problem, and actually I'm working on it. : ) But, I see it can be a good start point.

After that, I thought some time about an IT career, because I love technology and always be fascinated with software development. But I realize I like software development because it's a form to train my solve-problem skill without any real trouble. It's easy! I just need to create some usually worthless problem, look at the internet for possible solutions, learn how to use them and, finally, to spend a lot of time programming and implementing that solution. It's really cool for me, but the very point is: I like to learn and solve problems.

So, if I like IT and software development, why don't follow that career?! Because I'm a quite sick and tired of spend time in front a computer while things happens. I've worked with that and I know it's just a small peace inside the project. Depends on how your behaviour is, you can do a good job and never be recognized. And you can be away from people for a long time - and I really want to work with people now!

So, I've been looking for other options. Something that is interesting for me and I think I can do a good job. You know, "where your vocation cross the world needs, there lies your passion". I believe my vocations are to learn and solve problems. I like IT and technology, maybe it's the reason I choose to do Telecommunication engineering. And, after some time working for Poli Junior, I discover I like to work with people.

So, my today's idea is: why not to be a Project Manager?! It sounds good. I've worked in a couple of projects and I liked it! I know, almost all of them didn't get an excellent result, but I liked that solve-problem situations, where you need to deal with lots of people to get resources to achieve a solution for your customer. And each past error is now some experience for me. I've been involved in a lot of situations and flaw sometimes, did good things in other and, in the end, I learned about both of them.

It's interesting that Carol and Bruno are involved with Ganen Producoes project to bring a theatre play to Indaiatuba. I'm helping Carol with the definition of the project and it's really exciting. At the same time, I'm reading a book about project management. Not about tools, but about human issues that differentiate the good and the bad project manager. And the more I read the more I want to work with that.

But I really know I don't have all the characteristics to do be a project manager yet. So I want to spend my trainee time working in situations where I can develop that attitude and knowledge to see if I'm suitable to work with that in the next years.

I just need to discover the stone's way...

New year, new targets

Well, the New Year finally arrived!!!

And, with the new year, old responsibilities... you know, that new-year-promises stuff!! : )

But I can't just take some piece of paper and start to write a lot of promises or task or even more complex SMART objectives, like we learned at the CME course. No. Now I have a more general framework based on Steven Covey's ideas and books. It look like self help in the very beginning, but I'm sure it's not. Why?! Easy... because it's very hard to implement... no quick-fix, as he says.

And I'm finally finishing my personal mission statement. I had done a very good version, but I wasn't feeling comfortable with that. The pieces didn't look like connected. So, today I couple of hours in front of it and I tried to understand what was the problem. The texts was very good and, actually I didn't change anything, but it was very long and disconnected!

Finally I understood! I didn't have enough information to prioritize what's more important than other. So, I just write how it's working today and what my ideal prioritization list. But it's still very long! I want a one A5 page statement or less. I intend to invest more time this week.

I hope my next post will include my pocket version mission statement. : )

Well, to remember the old times, a quote:

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."