Shifting Gears
One of the things I have really enjoyed about my career is the variety of jobs I have done. I have always been in a position where I have had to wear many hats. Now that I am in my fifties, I have had over thirty years of implementing solutions across different architectures and disciplines. At the beginning of my career, I did very little software development and my focus was more on system administration and database administration. I worked on Windows and Unix environments and managed databases in Oracle and SQL Server. Later in my career, I built email, web, and DNS infrastructures on multiple platforms. I have managed some mall networks and firewalls and then started shifting more toward software development. I have done web development for a number of clients in languages like Perl, PHP, ColdFusion, Java, ASP, and finally ASP.NET with various Javascript frameworks. The one disadvantage of bouncing all over the place in IT is that I have never totally mastered anything. I