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131. Stop Acting Rudderless and Reinvent Your IT Career with Greg Altman

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Tech News, Technology, Business, Management, News

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🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Greg Altman Greg is currently leading the Infrastructure team at Strike Construction. He has implemented Cato Networks, migrations to RingCentral and M365, Mitel phone systems, VS Code, Storage Spaces Direct clusters, and various Azure services. A problem-solver at heart, Greg has a breadth of knowledge that enables me to communicate with people at all levels of business effectively. Stop Acting Rudderless and Reinvent Your IT Career with Greg Altman From rudderless to reanimated: Today on the podcast, Dissecting Popular IT Nerds, we’re going to hear how to put meaning back into what you do at IT. Experienced IT manager Greg Altman decided in his 50s to drop his job of 29 years for an exciting change. Join Greg and host Phil Howard as they share what it means to feel healthy pressure versus bad stress and explain why you need to consistently ask yourself “Why am I here?”  Discover the effects of opportunity, what role this senior technician is going to take in the future, and even talk about motorcycles.

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0:00.0

I work until like 6 o'clock every night, and then, you know, I get up early and I start early in the morning, and I'm, I feel like I'm behind the eight ball and I'm not catching up.

0:18.8

Welcome, everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds.

0:22.3

And we have a, I don't want to insult you by saying an oldie but a goodie, but that's just how we have to say it today.

0:31.3

Greg Altman back, back from the past on the show again and I'm having you on because you've switched roles

0:44.3

and I asked you so good better awesome stronger and you said it's oh no actually you, actually, you know, your wife said, which is important because

0:57.1

sometimes we bring our work home.

0:59.0

Your wife said it's, what do you say, more work but less stress, something like that?

1:05.7

She said it's that I have more pressure, but less stress.

1:11.4

So that's a good thing, I think, but explain.

1:15.7

Well, all right.

1:16.7

So, I mean, I've been in IT as we explored, and the last time I was on talking to you.

1:23.0

I mean, I've been in IT for almost 30 years.

1:25.5

Well, a little over 30 years, actually.

1:30.1

But, you know, you have those times where you're under pressure because there's a big project coming and you've got a lot

1:36.3

of work. And it's pressure because there's, yeah, there's a lot of writing on it. What we do is

1:43.6

important. Well, let's go through

1:45.2

what pressure means in that situation let's break it down deadlines I'm assuming yeah

1:49.8

performance deadlines performance workload expectations yes yeah okay all these different

1:57.6

things making a team work together training in users all the things we love to do

2:02.8

so there's pressure it's pressure to perform pretty much job performance pressure right um

2:10.0

and you know wanting to provide good service for the business, that sort of thing.

2:20.4

And then there's stress, which is where you have pressure,

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