{"id":164,"date":"2008-10-09T21:32:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T01:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2008\/10\/09\/im-a-swat-member\/"},"modified":"2008-10-09T21:32:59","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T01:32:59","slug":"im-a-swat-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"i’m a s.w.a.t. member"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought I was a helicopter parent<\/a>, but I’m not.<\/p>\n

What I do for a living, currently, is like being a SWAT team member – except instead of it being a team, it tends towards the commando.<\/p>\n

I provide onsite installation, support, and extension of the server management suite my company offers. That means that I spend a lot of time in conference calls making sure the environment is ready to go when I hit the ground, and when I do hit the ground, pretty much have to run fill-tilt to make sure we get everything done inside both the available billable hours, and the environmental constraints of the customer.<\/p>\n

Then I leave.<\/p>\n

When I leave, I might never see that customer again, talk to them, or talk about them.<\/p>\n

It’s a very different job from what I used to do, which was provide phone and email support to all<\/strong> our customers. I would close a handful of cases, just to have them replaced by new issues from the same (or different) customers.<\/p>\n

I can’t say which I prefer, because I’ve only been doing this most recent job for a few months, but there are definitely pros and cons to each.<\/p>\n

The flexibility to work from home, prepping for an onsite engagement, and then going onsite to be the Knight in Shining Armor can be a blast. It can also suck – along about the time a customer decides they don’t like you for whatever reason (“he wore the wrong color shirt!”), then it’s not so fun.<\/p>\n

The other issue I have is that I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. Certainly I’m not claiming to be an immature child any more, but being an adult, and even having a job, doesn’t necessarily mean you know what you want to become<\/em> later.<\/p>\n

For now, this is good. But if\/when I find that niche where I’ll really love<\/em> what I do, I know I’m making the jump.<\/p>\n

Who knows? Maybe I’ll be a “real” SWAT team member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought I was a helicopter parent, but I’m not. What I do for a living, currently, is like being a SWAT team member – except instead of it being a team, it tends towards the commando. I provide onsite installation, support, and extension of the server management suite my company offers. That means that …
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