The perfect IT job

My favorite part of the job has always been training. I'd love to be able to do it full time.

As for location... somewhere on the north shore of the Mediterranean or the north coast of California. (Up in the redwoods, not the San Francisco region which is in the exact center of the coastline.)

Ten foot from a floor-to-ceiling window one floor above the Thames Riverside Path. Joggers, tourists, office girlies...

Now winter is coming [b]and[/b] I've had to move up a couple of floors and away from the window. Bummer!

Operating a big crusher that eat's PC's. Oh my god I've been in the industry too long.

Maybe the luddites were right after all.

My idea of near perfection (if anything in life were absolutely perfect we'd have nothing to strive for):

1. An organization that truly values the contribution and professionalism of IT, one that considers IT to be a true value added partner and an integral component of achieving strategic goals.

2. A boss who watches my back, appreciates my input, manages appropriately (not too much and not too little), leads by example, clearly articulates his/her vision and plan for achieving it, and communicates frequently.

3. A set of challenges that seem different every single day in an environment that allows me to stretch and is mistake tolerant.

4. A group of customers who listen attentively to my ideas and consider them to be better than their own because I'm the expert and the only one in the room who actually knows what they're talking about.

5. A level of authority that's consistent with my level of responsibility.

6. An equal opportunity to move up if I want more responsibility or to a different department altogether if I want to try something new.

7. A management that understands work/life balance and encourages me to stop working after no more than 50 hour or so in order to actually have a life.

8. A warm climate in an office located walking distance from the first tee.

Not too much to ask, don't you think?

Working from the Mansion, not Chicago.
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Work in a small shop in a modest city in the south of the Republic of Ireland, be expected to work an 8 to 5 day, not be harassed if I have a pint of Guinness at lunch with my crisps and sandwich, and be able to go to the pub with my mates after work for a couple pints before I walk back to my flat for a bit of recap on the Prem and a snooze.

job: Build custom PCs out of weird stuff. (like I had an idea to build a PC with a hamster cage and have a little tunnel that puts the wheel in the middle, so it looks like the hamster is powering the PC)(or make a PC look like a car(but smaller, much smaller))
location: Fenwick Island, DE or Stone Harbor, NJ.

A writing gig, with an agent who has a steady stream of buyers for my stuff. (not necessarily IT stuff either ...) I'd likely alternate between a wifi hotspot at some non-starbucks locally operated coffee shop and wherever a converted VanHool tour bus could take me.

Probably would need a staff of 1 to receive snail mail, scan it into PDFs and forward it tho.

and whoever thinks there is such a thing as a perfect IT job is a moron. haha Me? I aspire to greater things. Like being a professional cave explorer. Or caver or spelunker, depending who you're talking to. The only bits and bytes you come across in a cave are from bats. I'd rather wrestle a bat than most of the IT managers I've had through the years. I guess in the long run, it's all the same. Just as we have in IT, you can get viruses from bats. And bugs. There bugs in caves, too, just like in IT.

The only "decent" paying IT jobs in South Jersey are with the casinos in AC or the FAA and it's related contractors in Egg Harbor. I seriously looked into a job with CSC in Egg Harbor about 10 years ago. It would have meant relocating and seemed like a bad move at the time.

Now I'd give my left nut to live at the "shore" and work nearby. Housing prices have tripled in Avalon in the last 10 years.

Place: anywhere
Job: Exploring Business Domains

just curious