I’ll bring you an earnings update tomorrow along with theis week’s keyword of the week, but I wanted to put out some more personal stuff today and just see what you think (about how I think).

If you go back far enough in the blog, you’ll find a lot of my early thoughts on how I have ended up where I am and who I was before etc. etc. Suffice it to say, that I was a corporate spokesman on all things relating to internet technology, from Java programming all the way to cloud computing via application servers and social networking. I was the archetypal technical evangelist, speaking at conferences and talking to the press.

And now, I don’t.

So what does that mean in terms of career advancement? Well, I guess it just depends on your perspective.  I never set out on this path to ” make a million” on the internet, although heaven knows, I’ve helped to build enough of it that I feel a bit deserving!

So, after a time of being on my own, building a business of my own, what would I be doing having interviews back in the old corporate world. Well, every now and again, one of them comes along and says “we think you might fit”…and every now and again I agree and we go through the interview dance. And then……and then….they say “no we don’t think you’d work” and I’ve had enough of it!!

The latest bunch started out wanting a person who could run their EMEA press and analyst gigs, do conferences for them and generally evangelise about social media. “I can do that”, I thought. In fact, I’d be bloody brilliant at that! Ah, no. Half way through the process they decide they want someone whol knows every nuance of social media “from experience” and who can grow to be a good speaker…

Well, all I can say is: GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!

All it’s done is to rile me up to the point that I will be setting up an industry-leading guide to both the social media and cloud computing spaces and generally building myself a name. Maybe it’s taken this final little kick for me to get passionate enough to want to kick sand back in the corporate world’s face a bit. Maybe this is the passion that drives all other Internet Marketer’s.

Who’s to say, I will be updating you with results of this venture. Tell me I’m talking crap in the comments or let me know what your turning point was.

Tomorrow. Keyword of the Week.