First, I would like to land another job as an executive with P&L responsibility over a division or company. This is very similar to my last job and would have a heavy software development as part of it. Examples would be running a media development organization for a gaming company or a publisher or a web or development organization.
Second, I would like to join a think tank for a company like Microsoft, Google, 3M, Boeing or Procter & Gamble. This job would make use of everything I’ve ever done and draw from multiple disciplines including Physics, Marketing, Sales and Design. I have a proven record of being extremely creative and have conceived and managed the development of systems for companies that solved mission critical problems.
Third, I would like a full time job teaching at the College level. I have a teaching credential from UC Berkeley that I earned while teaching at night at Monterey Peninsula Junior college in Monterey, Ca while running a computer consulting firm I owned. Teaching was one of the most rewarding things I have ever done and I would love to teach advanced media software development. The greatest reward for me was the students and helping them with their careers.
I like working with other people and not remotely. I've had the opportunity to work out of my house and I hate it. Much of work for me is the interpersonal relationships formed while working and that’s one of the major benefits to me of working.
Salary doesn’t matter to me as long as I can make a living wage and the salary is comparable to others performing the same job.
I’ve attached a image of the first computer I programmed in 1966. An IBM 1620 that required toggling on the front panel, in binary code, the boot tracks that then read the punched cards containing the program. We had to run each program at least three times until we got the same results twice and that was the result that was accepted. If the machine got too hot we wouldn’t get the same answer and had to shut down the machine for a couple of hours until it was cool enough.
This is another one of the situations that we may have a little of an edge coming back out of school. Both of us having prior work knowledge and experience that is still useful and needed in today's workforce.
ReplyDeleteI would love to see what you could do if you were in a think tank enviroment. I feel like this is the best possible way for companies to come up with new ideas that work for everyone.
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