Recently, I decided to change the direction of my career. Well, not that recently. It’s been brewing for almost 6 months now, probably since I got married last August. Getting married really made me redirect my attention to what I was doing with my life, and I found that I wasn’t as happy with my job as I had previously thought.
For the last year and a half, since officially moving to Denver, I’ve been working for a corporate benefits consulting/brockerage firm. When I think back to two years ago when I applied and accepted the job, it’s not hard to see why I did it. I was completely broke, in a job that was about to self-implode (consulting contract expiring), and looking for a ‘real job’ in Denver. The company offered a great salary, had stellar staff and as an added bonus, it was physically very close to where I was living at the time. So I didn’t care that I knew nothing about the insurance industry, or whether that was something I wanted to learn more about.
Long story short, at the end of last year I decided that I should really think long-term and do something that I could really be passionate about. And, as I’ll elaborate more on in future posts, I decided that I want to work for a technology startup.
What kind of people work in a tech start up scene? That’s a very broad category of companies and people, but generally speaking, and for the purpose of this post, I see following type of people:
- creative founder – the person who was a great idea and the know how to make it work;
- investor – who have the money the passion/vision for the idea;
- engineers/technical – who do the actual work of building/researching/day-to-day implementation of the original idea;
- business- who help the enterprise actually function as a profitable business (marketing, sales, accounting, etc..)
Within those rough categories of people, the only one that really appeals to me is the businessman, and more particularly the salesman of the org.
I can really see myself falling in love with a technology, and working hard to make other people see what I see. I have the technical background and the people skills to do it.
So what am I waiting for?
