The road not taken

[Former Member]

What would you be doing if you were not a SAP professional (or whatever you are today)?

I personally am a Business Intelligence and OLAP consultant. A few years ago I had a job offer as a analyst in an investment banking firm, but I turned it down. It was a small unknown firm and the salary was low. But now I keep wondering, what my career would be like if I had taken the offer - the investment banking firm has grown and now has a good reputation.

Al Lal

"Imagination is more important than knowledge" -- Albert Einstein

[Former Member]

My first job was of an Brand promotion exec,..as a fresh graduate i too was having lots of dreamz abt making a sound career but soon faced crude reality of marketing...i dumped that job..n finally after many if's & but's i came to SAP...now am serving it n it is serving me..

& "we are living happliy ever after."..

[Former Member]

I balance my work : life ratio with SDN (which is a lot of fun and interesting things to learn, and something to put back into it where I can, so there are always new roads here), and hobby farming.

A road which I should not have taken is rabbits. They are a pest and just dig holes all the time. I cannot complain enough about it. Should have seen it coming as well. Horses and chickens are okay in my opinion, at the moment, even if somewhat unpredictable at times (particularly chickens, although the impact is negligable). Horses have the usual F1 and F4 keys and undocumented FM's and classes.

I have the same opinion of release upgrades and not spotting the switch framework road...

Conclusion: Choose the sustainable farming road and learn from your mistakes. It compliments good software as well --> While driving your tractor around you can systematically structure your thoughts and avoid being flooded with useless Moooo's and Cickeri-ki's, which is often a trademark of unsustainable software.

My 2 hee-hawws,

Julius

[matt]

Ah, Robert Frost.

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I u2014

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

[Former Member]

Beatifull! We might even cross David Halitski's path in this thread.

Unless he as chosen the JAVA road now? I haven't seen any blogs about Jcontrol from him yet..

[Jelena_Perfiljeva]

I'd be doing pretty much the same in another system (I'm an ABAP developer partially turned into an SD specialist). I wanted to be a Programmer since I was about 12 and went to some classes in a Computing Centre (it was when the Programmers wore white robes and a single computer would occupy like 2 rooms) when I was in school. So for me there are no roads not taken.

But if speaking about the roads I would like to take - I would love to stay at home and give advice (of any nature) to other people on the Internet, if I could get paid enough for it.

[Former Member]

When I was young (very young) I wanted to be a "Pastry maker astronaut"...

I failed !

[former_member184657]

I wanted to be a reporter/writer for either the print or electronic media. While in college I even attended an interview with a reputed newspaper. I seriously contemplated going for a Master's degree in Mass Communication. But parental pressure, made me drop that career line. That was close to 10 years ago.

Today when I switch on the news and look at the reporting standards, I feel Ive made the right decision in not taking that road.

pk

[Former Member]

Tbh sometimes when I work with SAP, I feel like I'd better become a lumberjack

[Former Member]

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> Tbh sometimes when I work with SAP, I feel like I'd better become a lumberjack 

I didn't want to be an ABAPer you know, I wanted to be a lumberjack! Leaping from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia! The smell of fresh cut timber! The giant redwood! The larch! The fir! The mighty Scots pine! With my best girlie by my side, wed sing... sing... sing!

[Former Member]

If this Road is not taken i would have been a Fashion Designer..probably in Paris Milan with some fashion tag .

After completion of my schooling 2 choices came on my way ..one from my dad with a Business Administration course application and the other one in my hand with a Fashion Technology application. My dad's hand was bigger than mine and it won.. Did a Business Administration degree and an Computer applications masters,..but taking a career in SAP was really fortunate for me.Thank god i was not into Fashion right now else i would have been designing a Hand kerchief size cloth to cover a whole body.

The road still didn't end ..there is one more 'right' turn in my way to accompolish (starting my own company) hope it will go well in some time later. the road never ends

~Andrew

Edited by: Andrew J on Oct 8, 2009 12:00 PM

[former_member184657]

Ahem... The title of the thread says: Road Not Taken, and not Tree Not Taken

pk

[former_member184657]

Repetitive post.

pk

I just noticed that my first post of the day after logging in always gets posted twice. As soon as I press Post, the certificate error pops up and when I press Continue, the post appears twice even though I did not click the post button twice.

And strangely, it happens with only the first post of the day! Hmm...

Edited by: kishan P on Oct 8, 2009 9:28 AM

[Former Member]

Maybe its a case of some SDN 'GHOST' haunting u ?? whom you abused a lot ? 😛

[Former Member]

its me, i am the SDN ghost 😛

[Former Member]

Great... Glad to meet you Sir.

Are you,

i) The Fat Friar

ii) Nearly Headless Nick

iii) The Bloody Baron ? 😛

[Former Member]

The road still didn't end ..there is one more 'right' turn in my way to accompolish (starting my own company) hope it will go well in some time later. the road never ends

Yes Andrew, you are soooo right

If I had not taken this road, I might had been a Hindi Liturature Professor :). But my deepest desire about career was of a writer.......so it might possible that one day I would resign from SAP career and start writing books........:D

[Former Member]

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> Great... Glad to meet you Sir.  
> 
> Are you,
> 
> i) The Fat Friar
> ii) Nearly Headless Nick
> iii) The Bloody Baron ?  :P

I'm the

- standard function module you never used

- the sap transaction code you always forget

- the WebAS application that runs out of memory

- the Guided Procedure context parameter you forgot to map

- the Netweaver Developer Studio that trashes your DC when you move it to another SC

- im the one who posts SDN topics marked as "U.rgent!"

- the developer that chooses to fill defaultTrace.trc with "Hello World!"

- the Netweaver Development Infrastructure that takes 5 days for an important and then fails

- im everything thats wrong with SAP

and most important

- im the one that does the needful.

[jurjen_heeck]

I can only comment on roads taken. I once thought I wanted to become a cook so I am trained as one, then changed my profession and became a windowdresser. After doing that for several years I switched again and I have been a tourboat captain in Amsterdam for 9 years. In the late 90's I switched to IT where I started as a helpdesk employee and worked my way through systems and applications administration to become an SAP security consultant in the beginning 2006.

Actually, I do not remember distinctly not taking roads but future turns or switches will leave more roads not taken.