Thanks for all the kind words everyone. This is a very hard time for us. I am walking away with a nice bonus at the end and we are trying to decide if I want to go back to work for someone or start our own business.
These topics have become very stressful and descisions and goals have to be defined very soon to achive them.
We are looking at buying an existing day care business or relocating and starting one on our own. In addition to, I am sending our resumes like crazy just in case.
I have worked as an IT Director for 9 years for a private aviation company and am very "set mentally" for a senior management position. There arent many out there in DFW although there are tons of "desktop or admin" positions, so I may just have to take a pay cut and keep on moving forward.
My 4 year degree is in business management and minor in psychology. I also have an associates in network engineering from back in 97 when that was all that was offered.
I have a lot of professional experience in Law and the realestate markets from working with many firms years back as a consultant. But again no degree in the field.
I would LOVE to go to work for a law firm or realestate firm where I could apply IT management experience while also continuing my educaiton and obtain my license to sell. I have always been a great "salesman" or "closer" as a consultant and was voted #2 in the top 10 IT consultants in the Dallas Business Journal back in 1998.
I left the consulting firm in 99 to work for a client which is where I have been for 9 years until the sell out. So, I am very uneasy about going out to market myself and more comfortable with starting something myself.
The company i work for now have offered me a contract position and to keep my benefits for the time being as they determine if they really can not live without me or not.
Long story short, before 9\11 I ran a staff of 8. Shortly after then the aviation business was hit hard by new regulations and the company went into massive debt due to some bad initiatives they took on which caused us to start trimming back. So now I am the only one left in the dept titled as the IT Director but in reality, I do it all sys admin, budgeting, spending, desktop support the whole nine yards for 11 office locaitons base in 5 states supporting 250 - 300 users and 18 servers.
At the age of 34, I need to be in a stable env to help me continue planing and obtaining long term security for my familys future.
If anyone is in need of my experience, by all means let me know, as I am willing to relocate anywhere, even to europe.
