Here we go again…another fine journey into the uknown.

I guess it’s probably OK now to talk about the fact that I’m moving along to another job. Again. Before I say that, though, I have to be silly and sentimental…

As I was leaving nFusion for the last time and driving back home, the levity of the situation hit me. I’ve been at nFusion for a year and five months…not exactly a really long time or anything…but it’s strange because it feels like I’m leaving my family here in Texas. That sounds a little bit cheeseball and stupid when I just leave it like that…

We came down to Texas, and it was the people at nFusion that suddenly became the people that I would spend every day with for the next year and five months. We knew absolutely no one coming down here except the guy who located our (rat infested) apartment for us and a friend of a friend who I went and grabbed dinner with with the night before I started working. I haven’t seen her since then.

Needless to say, spending a lot of time with people at work…and sometimes outside of work…you tend to get to know them pretty well.

Don’t get me wrong; I had friends I made at work at previous jobs too. But it was an easier entry because I usually knew someone there to begin with, and I had lots of friends outside of work. But here, nFusion-ites were the only people that we knew. And the amazing thing was that it took almost zero time for me/us to become pretty good friends with some. That made things so much easier…and that’s why it was so hard to decide to leave. When the only thing you’ve known from the start is suddenly not there everyday, it tends to be a little jarring.

I’ve said this several times to other people, but when it comes to work, there is a part of the overall ‘compensation package’ that isn’t talked about. That would be the ‘Quality of Co-workers’ part. I guess it’s implied when you have a successful company and people that appear to be happy. But I think it’s something that is often overlooked as a ‘benefit’ when you go to work. Think about it; you spend most of your life working. Therefore, it seems obvious that you’d want to surround yourself with great people. It makes your time at work much more pleasant.

I’ll miss that benefit of nFusion…

That’s not to say that the new place I’ve chosen to go won’t have that. I’m sure it will. It’s just hard to think about not seeing my nFusion people on a daily basis.

So where am I going? Well, as one part of me is a little sad, the other part is very excited to be a part of something huge happening here. On Monday, March 3rd, I’ll be starting with a new agency in Austin called Schematic. This is the agency that was selected by the WPP Group to handle all of Dell’s interactive work, and I’m going to begin working with the Project Management group. It’s going to be a huge challenge in being a part of building something this big from the ground up. There’s going to be a lot of, ‘We’ll figure it out as we go,’ happening. Afterall, what can you expect when a giant company like Dell decides to consolidate all of the work from 600-800 people/agencies from around the world into one place?!

Fortunately, there are a lot of smart people in the room, so the process won’t be as painful as one might think. But it’s still going to be very interesting to see how it pans out and actually have a hand in shaping that path.

Wish me luck…I think I’m going to need it…

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