Lazy thoughts from a mind-bending day

I've just completed a 12-hour day at a client in which they moved half a dozen PCs and a file server to a new office. The job was complex, no question, but I managed to complete it with ease, almost as this were a final exam, a culmination of all the technical skills I had learned over the past 20 years in the I.T. field.

Many times during those years I had forgotten to consider, or neglected is perhaps a better word, just how complex this field really is. As a result, I had failed over and over to consider and appreciate just how talented I am. When you can complete a near impossible task that makes the uninitated feel he can do it himself, then you have really accomplished something. Today held such tasks.

This work required software skills, hardware skills, networking skills, extensive troubleshooting skills, and several of the issues that came up were ones that many could not hope to resolve on their own, or at least not resolve easily. But there you are.

It is but 12 short weeks until I bid this career adieu. I pray that I will remember this day and look back upon these two decades of learning and experience and really come to appreciate the depths of what I have accomplished during that time. It is, after all the path that has led me to my next great adventure this March.