Nor is it the 6 marathons in one week in China’s Gobi desert (”sand that cuts your feet like glass..”), and the other amazing challenges he’s set and met.
No, what strikes me as extraordinary is the pragmatic manner in which he’s dealt with the cards that fate dealt him.
This post’s for UK-based Information Technology employees worried about losing their jobs but nonetheless determined to survive and thrive – and is a follow-up to my post on ‘career support for IT professionals’.
Having just talked Friday night with an IT career coach back in the Sceptred Isle, here’s a 1st draft outline of what we’d like to cover in a series of teleseminars:
Following on from my post about Ireland’s slowing Celtic tiger economy, today let’s turn to the small nation of Iceland where banking collapse now seems to be triggering increasingly angry protests.
(For an insight into the developing social unrest see this article in today’s UK Guardian newspaper.)
A while back one of my American friends in Japan relocated to Iceland for a dream IT job with an Icelandic computer games company. He’s still there and, as far as I know, still gainfully employed.
Information Technology professionals are being affected by job losses, offshoring and outsourcing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Just take the recent news by Dell Ireland to move 1900 jobs from Limerick to Poland – no doubt some IT jobs are either included in this number or affected by it.
Not convinced?
OK, in these dodgy economic times, where job security now feels like skating over ever thinner ice, here’s another quote from the same interview:
“I definitely have more confidence now. I can rattle off memorized material at work meetings and people have noticed the improvement.”
