I should explain….

The lecture I’m doing has a loose subject of ‘Employ-ability’ and ‘A career in IT’.

I’ve had a career in IT mainly because I really wasn’t much good at anything else, and I had a few lucky breaks. But if I could steal the ‘Sunscreen’ lyrics by Baz Luhrman (who used the column written by Mary Schmich)

Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s

I’m not sure I can quite stick up a slide deck and say “Roll the dice!” It might make for an interesting 50 minutes, though!

I figured I’d take the ‘Employ-ability’ angle. What is that has made me employable so far? I’m a freelance contractor these days, so getting work is important to me. I don’t have a manager or an agent who is constantly looking out for me, I am the sales director, financial director and dogsbody of my company.  So perhaps I can work out what it is I think has made me land the jobs I have, and why I’ve lost out on others.

I wonder if I should do a ‘Baz’ for the guys at Portsmouth?

Oh yeah, and I’ll explain about Smith’s Co-efficient as well.