Changing Your Career

Ok, so let's think for a minute on how convenient it would be, from a functional side, to change the technology they use, against the same approach from a technical person. The thing is that I've been thinking about staying on SAP path. I like working with SAP and it’s been a while since I realized how many opportunities it has in terms of Business Intelligence and all business segments where they have solutions. Recently, I've learned they have even Machine Learning.

Should I stay in this path? Or maybe I can change the approach little bit with another solution, like Salesforce? I mean, they are in top of CRM solutions and cloud services for the same, but whether you can change your career path as an IT professional to focus on that. Or how can you make your job role more fungible?

I came across this thinking recently while reading a story from Daniel Klarnet [read his story here] that had many years working with SAP, he was already a consultant and then he moved to Salesforce keeping the degree of a solution architect but for another platform. Let's put an example on this: A java developer can jump into desktop apps, mobile apps and games.

One of the questions you should ask is: Which roles should I look for that overcome that stress and does that role deals the technology to growth on my career? Within this, I know you must have a vision on where you want to be and there will be much more clarity on the decisions you make in terms of your career path.

I realized it's not about the technology you use but the expertise you get out of it. As an IT professional in the data-related path, changing career direction isn't an easy way to go, not by a long shot. But it can be done.