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🎤 Powershell Podcast
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Blessed Again in 2023 🤩
Well as you probably know, I have not been blogging so much as I was last year. Few reasons behind this, reason number one is I want to be 100% committed to the work I do which pays me at the end of the month. Spending time with my family would be the second reason, like although I am working from home, I separate myself from my family and work in my own room. But to be able to finish work and be straight at home with your family is just the best feeling ever.
I love my new job so much, I did put it on LinkedIn the other day about being asked why I come to work when I was in my early 20s. The reason I gave was to get paid. The reason I was given by the HR lady was she came to work because she loved her job. I finally get it nearly 20 years later that great jobs do exist, and I just feel so blessed to have landed one.
So, although I have not been the crazy person blogging all the time on weird and wonderful modules that either do not exist or have a very niche focus on what that module does. It has been amazing that I have had people reach out to me on Powershell related things. Most crazy start to the year was to be re-invited back onto the Powershell Podcast for round 2. Like honestly, have you seen all the Powershell legends that have been on the show? Boom they are invited the simple lad from Gosport back onto the show, who in comparison to the other guest it feels like I am ‘Z’ list status. Nevertheless, the invite was genuine, and I was so thrilled that despite my lack of recent blogging I was being given another chance to come back on the show and chat to Andrew and Jordan who are two totally awesome guys. It just seemed quite surreal to be honest, but I did have a few people reach out to me after the last-time I went on the podcast.
As mentioned, there are a lot of real-life super-heroes for me who have been invited onto the podcast, but to me these people were genuinely talented people, or people who seemed super clever at a young age, or who went to university, or worked as a developer already or even people who work at Microsoft. Like none of that is me. I just feel like a regular guy who has been grafting hard for a long-time and was just lucky to get learning Powershell when it first came out and didn’t give up when it didn’t make sense. Like to try and understand Powershell from scratch without having some computer degree or having like-minded people at work who would rather carry on pointing and clicking, does not make it a quick journey. I wanted a better life for my family that was growing, I didn’t want to be skint at the end of each month, or worse over-drawn. So was amazing to get the chance to be speaking on the podcast again to hopefully connect with other IT people out there who may feel stuck in a rut in their current job. Or people struggling to learn Powershell thinking what is the end goal?
Finally in 2023 in the UK businesses finally seem to know about Powershell and what it can do for them. I was blessed back at the end of September in 2022 to be offered a job to use my Powershell skills and contribute to the team I would be working in. It seemed too good to be true, and honestly every-morning is a great feeling to get up to be working for this company, I love the work I do and the scripts I get to write or modify. Means a lot to me as well that opinions I suggest are considered and not dismissed as they have been in past jobs. Even tasks I take on that are not considered to be a scripting answer, it is just awesome to be able to think, well if I just write a small function for this I can re-use it and possibly pipe the data to something else. I just hope this podcast comes out well as the camera worked this time round without any audio delays, so hoping others can relate to this talk, and the fact if you can believe in yourself and the scripts you write, then do not ever give up on your dreams or goals you want to achieve in IT. I truly believe after landing this current role, that I know these roles do exist, and I certainly want to stay in this line of work, as it is providing a better future now for my family, which was the goal of learning Powershell all those years ago in version 1.
