New Gig
I started working for Jive Communications in Orem yesterday, and I’m pretty excited about it.
I had a number of people asking about my decision to move on from Microsoft, including a number of Microsoft employees. These reasons are hard enough to explain in person. A job change is a very personal thing made for very personal reasons. And if it is hard to explain in person, I can’t imagine trying to do it in writing to a faceless mob of perhaps two devoted readers, whoever you are.
So I’ll just leave it at this. I was at work one day when I got an e-mail indicating that someone at Jive Communications in Orem wanted to connect with me via LinkedIn. I’d heard of Jive Communications before because they’d been mentioned as one of UVEF’s “Top 25 Under 5″ in years past, so I was curious and responded to the inquiry. After some number of discussions and conversations, they offered me an opportunity to join their team.
The simple fact is, I weighed the opportunity against the opportunity I felt I had at Microsoft, and for me, my family, and my career goals, I felt the opportunity with Jive was better. Better for what I wanted out of life. Better for what I wanted to offer to the employer I work for.
To be clear, that’s the essence of it. This wasn’t about leaving Microsoft, it was about aligning myself with what I perceived as a better opportunity. One I’m pretty stoked about.
