Re: Need Help - Career Advice

Depends. On your view of yourself and your skills. Are you the technical
skills you've learned, or are you more than that? What DO you bring to a
client?

I left the Exec Office of one of the Big 8 accounting firms in 1976... since
then, I've been in nearly 300 clients, Big, Fortune-500 names you've heard
of, all the way down to tiny startups. Some have gone under -  some have
gone public - and in both cases they've done this with AND without my help.

Through the process, I've forgotten skills, learned new ones, picked up new
technology, even had the good fortune (or bad judgement, depending on your
viewpoint) to create a "new technology", as defined by a business method
patent or two...

One thing's clear.

The clients don't want what I know about... something.

They want what I think about something, and what I feel about something.
They want a fresh set of eyes applied to problems that have been tying their
knickers in knots. They want to hear new approaches. They want someone to
hear them. Technology is an excuse to get in the door.

For what it's worth.
-- 
Barry Stevens

"Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I started with one of the "Big 6" 5 years ago as a management
> consultant.
>
> I was on a project doing SAP (technical) for 3 years.
>
> Then I did 'busy' work for a year while unassigned.
>
> Now for the past year I am working with another technology.  (Siebel)
>
> So I am not sure where to go from here...let me explain.
>
> I did SAP for 3 years, but have not touched it for 2, so I lost a lot
> of knowledge.  Now I have only done Siebel for about a year, so my
> knowledge isnt that great.
>
> If I look for another job, then the employers will look at my resume
> and think "This guy has worked for 5 years, he must be a super guru"
> but in reality thats not the case.
>
> I have the SAP knowledge of someone who has worked with it for 3
> years, and the Siebel knowledge of someone who has worked for 1 year,
> so Im still a novice in both technologies.
>
> So I am screwed if I try to find another job?
>
> Thank you