The grass is not always greener, but it is different

I got good news last week. On August 20th I’ll be moving over to the TWC Business Class department and getting a promotion to Network Support Specialist. It’s going to be interesting, yet another step up in this company, yet another growing department, and yet another chance to learn all I can. For at least the immediate future, I’ll have a regular 8-4 Monday through Friday schedule. There will be actual troubleshooting and fixing, rather than just monitoring like I do in the RNOC now. I'll also have more opportunity to hopefully obtain a CCNA finally.

Leaving the RNOC is going to be interesting. I spent most of this week migrating our internal website over to a new sever. Next week I get to write the guide on how to admin the server and website since I was it's only admin. I have a few other small projects and transition items to complete before the 20th, but migrating the website was my big hurdle. Other projects that were on my to-do list were not so luckily. It was actually pretty refreshing knocking 5 or 6 various projects off that list.

I'm the third in the line of employees to make the jump to Business Class. One of the new hires in the RNOC asked me a few days ago if it was that much better over there. I responded honestly: "The grass is not always greener, but it is different." I'm not moving to get a better job, I'm moving to leave a job thats no longer a fit for me. The RNOC has changed a lot since I first started there. It's filling roles I don't think any of use expected it to fill when it first went live. The more the RNOC changed, the more I realized it was not going in the direction i hoped it would. That more than anything is why i chose to move. Time will tell if Business Class will be better, but i can guarantee it will be different.