I was walking through a vendor’s site today when it suddenly hit me that I have been doing consulting and technology for far longer than I ever did facility design and construction. It was a bit odd because for so long I defined myself as an Industrial Engineer who could walk into a facility and know how the building itself worked. I could understand intuitively all the aspects of how building and workers met.
But now I’m far more focused on technology development and data analysis. I still have that original background but I have moved so far afield from my original focus as to be slightly comical. I still chuckle in my head every time I’m with our head of Project Management because that’s where I started before having a personal realization that it just wasn’t for me.
The moral of this thought is that we all change over time – often without even realizing it. Change happens whether we seek it out or not and 8 years down the road something will alert you to the fact that what you do now is not anything like what you thought you’d be doing.
Just something to reflect on.