Goulay wants to know what job made you happiest?
This is a story with a happy ending. Earlier in the month, Brad Reese noted and blogged about the sudden departure of Cisco’s well-known and respected vice president of data center solutions, Douglas Gourlay. He even ran a poll asking readers to guess where Gourlay would wind up. (With 337 votes in, the top guess is Arista Networks.)
But we at Network World are happy to report that he has wound up here, as a blogger, while he launches his own consulting company and startup Nuera Aviation, a software development firm for the aviation market. (Gourlay is himself a pilot.)
In his inaugural post, today, Gourlay walks readers through memory lane recounting how someone recently asked him to name his favorite all-time job. He writes: “… it hit me- I was the happiest when I was a systems engineer. For me this was probably the most formative time in my career, and if you’ve ever read Malcolm Gladwell’s recent book ‘The Outliers’ (thank you to Anuradha for recommending this one to me, a good quick read) for me being an SE was my personal equivalent of the 10,000-hour crash course.”
His post has already sparked a good response from readers. Says Frank Ruge: I can fully agree on the versatility of being an SE in many different account situations. However there was one thing I hated about being an SE: bad meeting preparation of an AM and a waste of the customer’s and my time. This motivated me to try as an AM and these were the best years in my Cisco life: gaining trust of customers and the SEs I have been working with.
Please, drop by Gourlay’s blog and share your thoughts.
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