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And Like That, He is Gone

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-------- Leaving a Company After 10 years

This morning I resigned to the Company I have been working for the last 10 years. It leaves an empty space in my heart and still it remains with me. Those 10 years are the bulk of my career, the majority of what could be considered my professional self. There I learned about software development, expectations management, customer relations, and project management. I also learned about what makes a company grow, succeed, not succeed, create shareholder value, and what causes it to become a target for acquisitions.

With them I also visited the most exotic locations and met people who thought very differently from my way of thinking or even my peers. I had the opportunity to see life through in different ways. I learned more from customers and partners than from any training I might have been given by the Company (which I may say, not too many, as I had always had the bad habit of avoiding instructor-led training).

The Company also contributed to my personal success. With the company I learned about stocks and stock options. I bought my real estate properties mostly with the funds coming out of stock and stock option transactions of the Company stock. The travels let me accumulate more than a million of airline miles that I used to share my international exposure with the person who taught me the value about it, my now wife. And in the Company I learned many valuable lessons I have been able to share with family and friends for their own personal growth, especially our two younger siblings and protégées (my brother and her sister).

Yet, through all the growth I may have had during the last 10 years and many positions I occupied in the Company, I feel no regrets in leaving, and on giving my notice effective immediately (more on it on a different article). Staying on the same place leads to stagnation. Once you learn everything that can be learn about something it is time to start the learning process again!

It is time to explore new opportunities. For now I will do a little of independent consulting and consider permanent and contract offers that may be presented along the way.

Farewell big Company, wish you the best of luck!