Follow Up to Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

Recently I had an opportunity arise where I could have moved from WV. Still with the same company, still in IT but just a little different role in a bigger state.

I mulled it over thought about it, ran it by a few people but ultimatley this past weekend came to the conclusion that for right now it is best for me to stay where I am.

Its not that I dont want to try it because believe me I was ready to pack up and head down south.

Ultimately the reason I decided to stay was that I am needed where I am. I have a new employee who is still really green to our business and I am trying my best to bring him up to speed and teach him the skills needed to take over the reigns if something was ever to happen to me. He's not there yet and I would feel really uncomfortable leaving it all in his hands. To be honest at this stage if I left I am pretty sure he would leave as well.

It took me 3 working on 4 long hard years to learn to do what I do. He will probably never be put through some of the things that I was but the company was just growing when I started. He will never get to experience the total rebuild of the Chilhowie server room at 3 in the morning or doing a migration at greensboro eating McDonalds at Midnight then putting in another 2 hours just to get the job done. He wont build 8 servers in 8 weeks and then migrate 300 users to our network. He wont travel with his boss and learn his eating habits and that Elvis died in 1977 and that Chinese food really isnt that bad.

Give him a little time a it will sink in. The things that are second nature to me take time to learn and I am realizing this.

Another reason is my current Boss. Dont get me wrong she is great and supported me if I wanted to move. I just didnt think it was fair to leave her being in a new posistion and for the only person that knows the network inside and out to take flight. She is adapting to the new changes and to be honest the persons job that changed least was mine. I am still doing my thing taking care of issues and trying to share my knowledge with everyone in the process.

Now dont get me wrong. Those are not the only things that played a factor into my staying. I think it would be hard on Mel to move another 3 hours away from her Family. She would follow me to the end of the earth and if it was something I really wanted she would be right there.

All in all when it came down to it the timing just isnt there. I have unfinished business here. Not to say I will never move. As I have said before I am a different person these days. The past eight months have been the happiest of my life and I would love to try something new and exciting. One day it may happen and the pieces will fall together just right. Until then I will keep teaching and more importantly learning.

Until then I will hold in down in WV and keep in touch with my friends down south.