Well, that’s me in my last month at Merrill Lynch after a nice run as a developer. My reasons for moving I have stated before, but I have decided that the contractor business is just too risky for me at the moment.
So I have accepted an offer from Aggreko ! They have managed to woo me with their culture of embracing new technology that even the highest echelons of the company promotes with their insatiable appetite for new things.
I think that this will be a pivotal move for me that will allow me to expand my expertise in the areas that I am interested in (Sharepoint, TFS , .NET 3.x, and others) as well as work with many like minded technofiles.
I will let you know how I get on, but for now I have a months notice to work and many handover documents to write!
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