Exactly two years ago I started my journey with SQLskills. It has been an incredible experience and I\u2019m grateful for my time with everyone in the company and also grateful for all the people I got to meet along the way. I\u2019ve gained friendships and working relationships that will last a lifetime.<\/p>\n
While this has been a great adventure, I found myself feeling over the last two years that I\u2019m a bit of a Hobbit at heart (hence the blog post title reference). I prefer the comforts of home and have missed the longer-term, multi-month engagements and projects that I\u2019ve worked on in the past in other roles. While I do a lot of consulting work at SQLskills, that work is mostly shorter engagements spread over many clients, so I realized a transition would be needed at some point.<\/p>\n
Paul and I worked out the plan last May, so this plan has been in-the-works for a while. Nothing dramatic to report and no regrets on either side.<\/p>\n
Where am I going next?<\/p>\n
I set up my own company and booked my first local client engagement in Minneapolis starting October 1st<\/sup> working with a local Fortune 500 company for at least the next few months full time, if not longer.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll still be partnering with SQLskills when the opportunity arises, be it a consulting engagement, guest-blog post or Pluralsight course.<\/p>\n Not to be sentimental \u2013 and yet I am \u2013 so I\u2019ll share just a few of my favorite SQLskills memories. It was hard to choose, since there were so many and they may seem like simple experiences, but it is the simple stuff that means the most to me in life:<\/p>\n