When I was a kid I wanted to be a major league shortstop. I’m pretty sure that most of you reading this had plans for an alternative career in your younger days. Nothing against accounting, but seriously, I think you could count the number of those of us who proclaimed, “I want to be a CPA when I grow up,” on the fingers of one hand. Our career aspirations evolve as we get older, but recently, as a result of the cornucopia of cloud alternatives available today, a number of folks have decided that they want to be in IT.
Naturally, the desire of many of us to become our own “mini-CIOs” comes as a shock to the guys and gals in actual IT departments since the last new guy they added was Fred, and that was over two years ago.