T-SQL Tuesday #38 – Standing Firm
January 8, 2013 4 Comments
T-SQL Tuesday is a recurring blog party, that is started by Adam Machanic (Blog | @AdamMachanic). Each month a blog will host the party, and everyone that want’s to can write a blog about a specific subject.
This month the subject is “Standing Firm”. If you want to read the opening post, please click the image below to go to the party-starter: Jason Brimhall (Blog | @sqlrnnr).
This month I thought about skipping T-SQL Tuesday, because I didn’t thought of a story to tell you. Certainly after my previous post about my targets for this year. Standing firm was something I connected to these targets, until today.
I can’t give you full details about the current situation right now, but trust me if I say it’s not pretty. When I started thinking about targets I want to set myself, I thought about my future. The next 10 years, I saw myself sticking with the same I do now and love: SQL Server development. Then some things… well… changed… Unfortunately, without informing me.
To get back to this months topic, I decided to stand firm for myself from now on. In the past it happened several times, that I accepted things that I didn’t believe in myself. Things that were decided without asking or informing me, and that I let happen in order to keep the peace. But that changed this week.
From now on, I decide what I want, and not what others expect from me. I’m even more determined to succeed as a SQL Server professional, and to show certain people I AM qualified for specific tasks.
This might be hard, and unpleasant for some people, but it’s my future. I want to become an author, a speaker, a person to go to if you have questions, and so on. But I don’t think I can accomplish it if I carry on like this…
So If you help me accomplish one or more of my goals from my previous post, let me know. If you can help me find a new challenge, I’d love to talk to you about that! I need all the help I can get from my #SQLFamily! 
Stay strong Jeff!
-Mickey
Thanks Mickey! And thanks for all the help so far!
Hi Jeffrey,
All the best with your goals! I think we are lucky that we have a warm and supportive community, #SQLFamily.
Hope to see you at one or more of SQL Community events and it would be great to hear your progress through out the year!
Julie
Thank you Julie! I’m also very happy with all the support I get, and I can only hope other people think of me in the same way.
I’m hoping to meet you too this year! This might be the year I’m coming your way for a nice event. My hopes are set on Summit13, but that might be a little bit too much to ask for. We’ll wait and see. But if I’m there, I’m definitely meeting up with you!