I write this sitting at my desk in a Global Investment Bank Equities IT floor waiting for a conf call in an hour where the Global business head is to address the employees about their fate in the organization.Sacked or Sold is the question. In my 3 plus years with the organization, never has a meeting/conference call been so impatiently awaited.
Yet all people can do at the minute is crack jokes about alternative career plans. It makes me wonder - is it a typically software engineer trait? Are we so accustomed to losing a job? Or are we so confident of finding a new one?
The bank has been in trouble for a while now, but this year specifically did not go very well for my business unit. And UK government (our savior) is now calling the shots coming as fatal blows to the employees. The newspapers have been abuzz with news of lay-offs, shut downs from "insiders" for the past one month. The announcement initially scheduled for feb had to be preponed considering the drop in productivity due to the uncertainty among the people.
I for one have already started thinking of alternative career options - as a travel show host, travel club employee, blogger, globe trotter, yoga instructor (i know nothing of it other than self studied blogs). While i'm day dreaming about all these things, there are two things that struck me :
One - im not even considering IT
Two - everything i'm considering has to allow me to travel
Travel and meeting/working with people across the globe seems to be my only favorite thing about IT. About time i think about this seriously.
Yet all people can do at the minute is crack jokes about alternative career plans. It makes me wonder - is it a typically software engineer trait? Are we so accustomed to losing a job? Or are we so confident of finding a new one?
The bank has been in trouble for a while now, but this year specifically did not go very well for my business unit. And UK government (our savior) is now calling the shots coming as fatal blows to the employees. The newspapers have been abuzz with news of lay-offs, shut downs from "insiders" for the past one month. The announcement initially scheduled for feb had to be preponed considering the drop in productivity due to the uncertainty among the people.
I for one have already started thinking of alternative career options - as a travel show host, travel club employee, blogger, globe trotter, yoga instructor (i know nothing of it other than self studied blogs). While i'm day dreaming about all these things, there are two things that struck me :
One - im not even considering IT
Two - everything i'm considering has to allow me to travel
Travel and meeting/working with people across the globe seems to be my only favorite thing about IT. About time i think about this seriously.
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