Missing Link

As I write this, I realize that its usefulness to most of you who read my blog regularly is limited, at best.  For that, I apologize.  If you’re not someone interested in information security (and specifically, the technologies involved therein) you can safely skip this without missing anything you care about reading.

Back in January, PGP Corporation released a much anticipated update to their PGP Desktop lineup -PGP Desktop 10.0.  This update was much anticipated because it finally added support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.  The great benefit here is that those who would be so inclined to utilize whole disk encryption on mac, and choose PGP as their platform of choice, could now upgrade to Snow Leopard and have their drive encrypted.

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For a while now I’ve been thinking about, and really considering, my career.   In a few years time I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to do a lot of really cool things, from co-founding technology companies to building a security program around a federal government project.  It’s been a wonderful ride so far, and I’m thankful for each and every opportunity I’ve had in that regard.

In the course of considering my career – both where it’s been and where it’s going – I’ve come to a very important realization:  I don’t want a career in information security.

Let me say that again, for those of you who are shocked:   I do not want a career in information security.

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In this economy a lot of folks are worried about their job, money, and generally making ends meet.  While part of me gets it and understands where this trepidation comes from,  I find myself unable to really relate.   I am one of the fortunate few who not only is employed, but also has an incredible degree of stability in that employment.  I don’t fear losing my job and being one of the many who are competing for the few jobs that seem to be available.

I’ve been very fortunate in this regard.   A few years ago, shortly before the housing bubble burst and sent the economy into the toilet, I was a co-owner and co-founder of the technology company Proxito.   I don’t expect many of you to have heard of us – in fact I fully expect that the vast majority of you haven’t.   We were attempting to do some fairly ambitious things with text messaging as our platform.  I think we missed the mark on what we were attempting to do – specifically by trying to bill ourselves as text messaging companies instead of content delivery via multiple methods – but that’s a story for another day.

We shut down operations in late 2007,  leaving both myself and Brian – the other co-founder – to try to figure out an important question: Now what do we do?

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I’ve been awfully silent so far this year – more so than I should be.   A lot has been going on,  combined with me generally being lazy about finding something to write about.    It happens, and I’m sure those of you who have followed me this far have come to expect it.

The holidays that have passed were good,  and so far the new year has treated me pretty well. For the most part.

A little over a week ago,  8 days if you want to be picky,  Ann called me about 15 minutes before my alarm was set to wake me up.  I groggily answered the phone with “yeah, what’s up”

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As 2010 fast approaches I’ve been looking back upon 2009 and all that has happened.  While doing that, I realized that 2009 has been – by far – the best year I’ve had in a long time – probably even this entire decade.

This year has seen the following events in my life (in no particular order):  I got married, I changed jobs to my current job (which I love), spent a week in las vegas,  drove a tow truck for the first time, spent a week in florida,  got an xbox 360, and bought a new car.

Now – that’s just the things I can think of off the top of my head.   I’m sure there are other things that have happened (such as me catching perhaps the best shot of my photographic career),  and plenty of other things that have made this a great year.

By far the biggest and best thing (as mentioned above) is that I got married and now get to spend my life with my best friend  - it doesn’t get more awesome than that.    A close second was snagging a new job at one of the best email and 1:1 marketing companies in the world.   I was able to move out of a position that was in a toxic environment for a variety of reasons,(which I won’t post here), and into a position in an environment that allows me to thrive.

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