A career ending mistake
I hate my job. I don&#x27;t know how I got here.<p>Like many I started out in small scale IT just as desktop computers were becoming a thing. I transitioned from mainframe support to desktop support, from there I worked through several desktop support roles, wishing I was server support but never managing to get there... over time I became a desktop architect, and then infrastructure architect, and now well.... I just don&#x27;t know.<p>I have meetings, I write documents. I offer sage advice on best practice. That&#x27;s it. It&#x27;s not IT anymore, it&#x27;s just make-work.<p>If I knew my middle-career years would be like this, I would have <i>never</i> started in IT in the first place[1].<p>However... I work 100% remotely, and I LIKE that. I&#x27;ve been a remote worker for a decade now, and I just couldn&#x27;t go back to commuting or being in an office.<p>So, I have no idea what to do[2].<p>I&#x27;m not really soliciting for advice (but feel free!), I&#x27;m just venting I guess.<p>---<p>[1] I had a chance at the very beginning to become a Forensic Scientist at New Scotland Yard for the Police. I turned it down. Often I wonder if I made the wrong choice.<p>[2] Computers are the <i>only</i> thing I&#x27;m good at.