Career Challenges - Database Weekly (Dec 15, 2008)
What was the most challenging thing that happened in your career?
That’s a question I’ve seen a lot this past week after Chris Shaw started tagging people with the question. I first noticed this on the Scary DBA blog (Grant Fritchey) and since then I’ve seen quite a few more. I’ve linked in a bunch to the newsletter so you can see what some of the influential people in the SQL Server community have been through.
I think everyone has had some challenges in their career, though some more than others. If you play it safe, not pushing the envelope, and have some good luck, you might have a fairly quiet career. There’s nothing wrong with that and I certainly wouldn’t think anyone was a failure for not having many challenges. There have definitely been times in my career where the job was just a paycheck and I didn’t worry about being challenged. I was happy to go to work, put my headphones on, and get things done.
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