March or April 2020 when the world shut down, my job of five years work mostly dried up. So I decided to change careers and move from essential to critical.
It took me a few months of searching, but I was able to land an entry level job in a data center monitoring and maintaining the infrastructure supporting the servers as well as the overall buildings. I worked my way up very quickly from night shift to days, then earned a position as the assistant to the lead engineer for our largest building on our campus.
Over the last three years I have been promoted three times and yesterday I accepted the role of Lead Engineer in charge of our largest/flagship building on our campus. It will be an extremely challenging role, but as long as I'm successful it should lead to a management position, possibly pretty quickly with the growth in our company/industry.
I'm so happy I changed careers, first off it's way easier on my body and second I still have more upward mobility even after several promotions.
I start my new role on Monday with lots to learn, luckily I'm already familiar with the monstrous building from my previous stint there.
Edited to remove an embarrassing amount of typos.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Skins2881,
Jesse
Sic Semper Tyrannis
October 18, 2023, 04:27 PM
OttoSig
Congrats Skins! You should out you “what did you eat for dinner” thread on resumes!
10 years to retirement! Just waiting!
October 18, 2023, 04:27 PM
odin
Good luck, Skins! If you do make it to Management, be mindful of where you started. This has helped me be a successful manager in the past!
October 18, 2023, 04:46 PM
RogueJSK
Congratulations!
October 18, 2023, 05:03 PM
irreverent
Congrats to you!
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October 18, 2023, 05:04 PM
germandogs
Great work!
Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies.
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October 18, 2023, 05:30 PM
1967Goat
Congratulations!
October 18, 2023, 05:33 PM
PHPaul
Congratulations!
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October 18, 2023, 05:52 PM
Kranky
Nice Job -- congrats!
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October 18, 2023, 06:02 PM
wrightd
You go man !! Congrats !!
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October 18, 2023, 06:04 PM
400m
Great news! Way to go skins!
October 18, 2023, 06:06 PM
scsigs
Congratulations and good luck!
October 18, 2023, 06:22 PM
VBVAGUY
AWESOME and Congratulations !!! God Bless
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October 18, 2023, 06:25 PM
vthoky
Congrats, Skins!
God bless America.
October 18, 2023, 06:30 PM
Warhorse
Congratulations!
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October 18, 2023, 06:31 PM
k5blazer
Congratulations!
October 18, 2023, 06:36 PM
G-Man
What a great success story!! You had the courage to make a bold move and it paid off! Adapt and overcome!
Congratulations and keep charging up that hill!
October 18, 2023, 06:45 PM
Oz_Shadow
Congrats! Taking a big leap to a new job can be hard but sometimes the rewards are far greater than you ever imagined.
