My Way - Career Change

 Shortly after I joined Accenture, I was moved to service management from the profile of a French translator and interpreter. Despite receiving intense support from my leads during the initial phase of my career, a service management profile was never aligned with my career goal.

Hence, I tried every means to change my role since 2017 - upskilling myself to Azure cloud, DevOps and R, discussing my aspirations with my supervisors, and even approaching the next level of people's managers, but nothing worked. At times, I was provided with rationales which startled me - if we provide you with this role the others might feel left out, your aspirations are not implausible but difficult to achieve at this level, and you are trying to compete with someone who has a demonstrated experience of years on this domain whereas you do not have one, etc.

At last, this year I had to take a call to come out of my comfort zone and embrace uncertainty with some calculated risks. I was already into multiple sources of income, alternative career ideas, efficient wealth allocation, blessed with an insight of the 80-20 rule about the return on time, and am an active trader and investor since the salad days of my career, which are made popular by certain YouTubers during last few years. (I can tell you from my experience, that most of them are doing it for the sake of content creation and passive income, which is hardly passive, rather than adding any real value to our life) I also got a few real helping hands since February 2022, who tried their best to put me in the right place in my mainstream career.

Finally, the next Monday onwards, I will start working on Azure DevOps, an area of my pursuit since 2017-18. I am fortunate to be part of an organisation which silently promotes a supportive framework of career transition where people can actually take the risk of burning the bridge and jump into an upcoming endeavour.

If they bind you with a limiting hypothesis, set a reasonable goal and action plan. It is their truth, not yours. And if you do not take the next leap, it is evident that you yourself do not trust your truth.