However, as the IT director at that company, what I did not enjoy was being locked into a single environment with limited opportunities to work with new technologies. As a company whose line of business was in food processing and distribution, their focus was on keeping technology costs low and maintaining a stable, non-changing environment. I went to work every day knowing I was not going to be working with all the new developments in my field, but instead was expected to keep old technologies running as long as possible. As the company grew, they moved away from the family-run culture to a large corporate culture who saw their employees as replaceable human resources.
Working at CTS has again given me the feeling that the people I work for and with, care about me. I now have the opportunity to work with many different new technologies in a wide variety of environments. We also get to work in all areas, including desktop and server hardware, LAN, WAN, and wireless networking, operating systems, backup and disaster recovery, network security, voice, video, and many other aspects of our customer’s technology. In many larger companies, you are assigned a single piece of their tech (such as LAN switching, or PC maintenance), and never get to touch anything else. I come to work here every day expecting to learn something new, and to have fun doing it. As they say, “if you love your job, you won’t work a day in your life”.