2008 was the year of my first resignation on my very first company. After staying for nearly 4 years (just one month short) I decided to explore other opportunities. It was my very first outside of Cebu job. I faced the uncertainty of it, and looking back at it now, I did quite a good job!
Though it lasted only for a year, I was back in old Cebu.
For most of mid 2009 to mid 2010, I consider those times as my lowest moments in my programmer career, I just stayed on a job for having one. I have made bad, really bad decisions and may have hurt my reputation to some important persons that helped my career (a professor, a colleague). I really did not pursue to learn and get updated or excited on new stuff. I went from being a creator to being a user of tech. I got to be everybody else, knowing the technology by the advertisement and the consumer type, not the system analyst I dream about becoming one day.
But it was fine, I sidetracked to another profession which might be useful someday.
NCR accepted me and because of it, I somewhat realigned myself with programming and the passion once more burned. Im not saying that Im my old coder-til-midnight self I once was, but at least Im back in familiar shores so to speak. I might say it was a good almost 2 years here (again, 1 month short), I met new friends, gone to new places with them, enjoyed a whole lot of new experiences.
Im going to miss this place, Im going to miss Cebu again, and most importantly Im going to miss my little nephew and niece. But I have to do this again because this is, as I see it now, the make or break moment. I have to make it and be good, no, be the best! I have to because I see no other alternatives.
To the future! All sails ahead.
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