Comments on: Atlas Shrugged https://thomaslarock.com/2009/07/atlas-shrugged/ Thomas LaRock is an author, speaker, data expert, and SQLRockstar. He helps people connect, learn, and share. Along the way he solves data problems, too. Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:17:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: K. Brian Kelley https://thomaslarock.com/2009/07/atlas-shrugged/#comment-822 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:17:02 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=2438#comment-822 Couldn’t agree with you more. I’ve had quite a few folks ask me why I stepped back to being “just a DBA” as opposed to staying in an infrastructure architecture position. Ultimately it came down to loving what I do. I loved working with SQL Server. I love working with SQL Server. I was slowly drifting away because there were a hundred other things pulling me away each day. And that was affecting my motivation. And that in turn was affecting my production.

I saw this happening, did a self-assessment, and looked for an opportunity to go back to what I really wanted to do. Then a DBA position opened back up in my organization and I asked to move back. I give a lot of credit to my management to seeing how much I wanted to go back and making it happen. We talked about it, when the position came open, they went to bat with higher management for me. And the points they made about the reason for allowing me to make the switch centered on what you’ve listed here.

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