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I am. I just realized it a few days ago though. Don’t get me wrong, I have always thought very highly of my job in a rotational leadership program and there are definitely further career achievements I wish to attain but, I am doing the things that I dreamed of doing in college. I just hadn’t realized it yet. Here is how I came to realize my dream role and how it has helped me to continue to develop my career.
Complete Task Orientation Can Be A Distraction
I have always wanted to help determine IT strategy and help push an organization to the next level, from centralized systems to cloud computing, thin client to mobile technologies, etc. I am in the middle of my last rotation and have considerable knowledge about how the sales and marketing groups I work with want to use the system I am deploying. I have worked with them closely so, I was pulled into a strategy session for our entire business’s approach to Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems. Here is the crux, at first, I felt it was a burden, it was obvious our team needed the centralized solution I was providing, why did we have to have this strategy session? Regardless, I decided to just do it.
Realize Your Role
After some discussion, I realized, I was participating in exactly what I had hoped for! We were considering cloud computing (a Software as a Service variant) and many other solutions to long term business growth challenges! Once I saw things in this light, the task and the meeting became 100 times more exciting.
Appreciate (for your own sake) to Contribute More
After I came to the realization that I had an opportunity to participate in setting the strategy for our company, I not only contributed more, I worked harder on helping to compile repeatable processes on my current project that could be used to execute the strategy I helped to formulate. When I appreciated my role and realized it’s place in the big picture, I worked harder and contributed more, moving me even further towards my dream job.
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