Weekends with Archie

IT is not bad after all

February 11, 2007

I have decided long ago and I really promised myself that as much as possible, I wanted to keep myself away from IT-related jobs.  Maybe because I am not so contented with my course and perhaps this made it hard for me to accept IT all four years of my college life.  Now I am thinking twice.

http://www.accent.md/This Saturday, I was invited to attend the company presentation of HP Global Delivery Philippines Center in their building in Makati.  Pretty much, it was a whole day of selling their company to us and I did expect some brainwashing moments, not to mention all the freebies that we get every time we answer a question, the good lunch and the promise that we have the advantage to get in since we are supposedly the crema de la crop in Ateneo.  But what is striking about that day is when I realized that HP can also offer a "non-IT" job.  I mean it is an IT-company but it is not just about programming and software development.  Perhaps I should now redefine what IT is for me.  I used to hate IT because I really can't see myself all day sitting in front of the computers, worrying about the code bugs, and doing a routine like that for the rest of my life.

All the while I have this dilemma of where to work and what work to do and where my core competencies are.  I do believe that I have a conscious effort to have a breadth of skills that is why I would not want to get stuck to a specific work area.  I wanted to manage not just systems but the organization itself.  And this, I realized I can also find in HP.

Plus there is a bonus.  You get to travel a lot (all expenses paid) to accomodate your global clients.  They promised to give you competitive pay and benefits that are covertible and a forced Christmas leave, something that I really need because I wanted to stay for a longer time with my family in Davao during these holidays.

So I guess working in an IT-company is not that bad after all.  HP, I guess is a good place to work in.  But of course I'm keeping myself open to other companies.  IBM Business Services is also offering a fast-track management training program and maybe this could also work.  And there are still other companies whose main line is really management like my previous internship company, Globe and all other companies to whom I passed my applications.  Maybe I just have to discern more where I can see myelf improve, grow and be possibly the best I can for me, for my family and for the country.

I have no decisions yet.  Only realizations that IT is not bad after all.


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