No big deal that you didn't get the job, m8. There'll be plenty of other opportunities. When that's happened to me I figured it was just karma, letting me know that wasn't the one. Next?

I don't know what HHRR is ... a form of employment agency? Employment agencies usually play their cards close to their chest, making it difficult to get important details until after you commit. I've not liked using them for that reason among others.

I did twelve years of IT time for a US state government (California). I left the government a while back, and now I'm in the private retail business doing IT, as I mentioned. My experience is broad rather than deep; I'm an 'expert' at nothing, but can function well doing a variety of things IT.

I've enjoyed being a product manager (called a 'technical project leader' where I was), but don't care to be personally responsible for the motivation and performance of others. I've passed up administrative managerial positions in favor of more technical, product-related roles. I like visualizing, designing and making things that delight my customers and enhance their efficiency and effectiveness. I don't mind planning, organizing, scheduling, communicating, training, etc., but I don't enjoy trying to herd cats, I mean, manage (sic) people. I leave that to the project leaders.

Currently I'm working as a systems integrator, dealing with a wide variety of production retail devices and systems on a distributed regional team. It's interesting, but I miss development. Support is constantly hectic. Projects have a nice curve to them.

I'll trade you the sig line for some of that short burst for this week. We're in the middle of "going live" with a replacement for our central production system: 36 stores, and some of the stores in our regions are quite large, four in Manhattan. I feel battered and bruised already, and we've got a ways to go yet. Gah.

What "insight" I have has come from working with both really good, and really crappy managers and leaders, quite a few of them over a good many years. Often they were my customers, when the projects were to provide tracking systems for this or that or another thing. I learned a lot about managers/leaders doing those projects. Heh, I've also spent many years criticizing them too, and you need to be on your toes when you go up against the leadership machine, lest you find yourself designing and executing new ways to polish the toilet with a toothbrush.