Things I like:

1. Get to choose my path of projects to a degree
2. Great resume experience and stepping stone
3. Plenty of networking opportunities
4. Can get privacy when I want to excel in work
5. Two monitors / Good equipment; keeps me productive
6. Flexible when I get to come into work, not kept tabs on
7. Get to attend as many free or cheap conferences, groups, talks as I want
8. Get to suggest ideas to higher management
9. Get a lot of vacation time and sick time
10. If I dont meet a deadline, its no big deal
    1. I would meet more deadlines if they did not have so much that they want the department and I to do
11. My own office with window
12. Management experience; of employees, projects, and systems
13. Get to interact, meet, and train new people often (but not too much)
14. Women are very nice and motherly like
15. I get to attend classes; they work around my schedule

 Reasons for leaving / Things I dont like:

1. stressful unhealthy
   1. physical pains (may be mentally related)
   2. frustrating
2. job no longer exciting / new
   1. too much system administrator duties
   2. not enough systems analyst / engineer / developer for my taste
3. everyday issues overwhelm and disallow growth projects
   1. a rethinking of job descriptions needs to be done, separation of IT duties?
4. peoplesoft ERP
   1. peoplesoft is not my style of system to work on
   2. will be tons better that what we have, but I think we could have chose something even more optimal
   3. I like to work on more intuitive, open/transparent, flexible, and future-looking systems
   4. improvements could be made on interface, user environment, documentation, development environment
5. my feelings are not right, going to psychologist group meetings
6. no everyday outlets for me
7. little comorodery, not my age group or social background
8. all requests are implicitly expected to be done
   1. not taking into account that I can only do so much
   2. sometimes I need to be able to say “no” and others need to explicitly know that
9. too much to do not enough resources, mgmt plans too many goals w/ not enough infrastructure

Additional ‘dont likes’ from blog I did in years past:

1. Not fully appreciated; salary is very low and not competitive; even with other state schools
2. I have to stretch the truth to customers
   1. Give false deadlines
   2. Not speak what I believe in
   3. Read back over everything I write because it might be used against me
3. Third party company provides horrendous, inconsistent support (paradocs)
4. Improvement on commonplace systems methodology is needed campus wide
5. Too much to do with not enough resources
6. Too many email communications required
   1. I come in to 20+ emails that all need specialized responses or complete functionality requests
7. Little to no help or support on advanced projects and knowledge
   1. linux solutions
   2. 3rd party systems and administration

how to leave gracefully?

1. may want to come back in a few years

when to leave? I want feb or mar, jill wants apr

what to tell others in office and other depts.. Why I’m leaving what I’m doing where I’m going

what to do about imagenow training and paradocs? What to tell rachel others

advice, thoughts