I promised to be completely open about stuff when I kicked off this personal blog and so, in a spirit of openness, I need to confess something.

I actually miss working!

That’s probably going to come as a complete shock to some in the IM space, whose only target in life has been to get away from the job in the first place. Now, of course, there are other aims in the internet marketing world. One of which is to achieve some kind of financial independence – I can’t fault that at all….we all need to be in that place at the moment.

However, what I have realised more and more about myself, is that I really do enjoy the feeling that comes from interacting with people directly. I guess it’s all tied up with being an ENTP personality on the old Myers-Briggs test.

The other thing that I miss a lot, is the speaking engagements. There is something quite special about being able to take an audience on a journey of discovery, whether selling or educating and for me the biggest fun comes with the biggest audiences. Well, that isn’t happening when I’m sat in the Command Centre at home!

Finally, I just get a buzz from technology. I may be out of my days of coding all the time, but I still want to know how stuff works and the worlds of Cloud, Crowd and Virtualisation are where I want to be learning.

So, this is not the end of the IM stuff. I will still be reporting on stuff that I learn in that space too, it’s just that I am going to go back to preaching the message of software infrastructure too. Watch this space.