Not Quite Leaving Pythian

When I decided to stop working with Pythian, I was particularly disappointed about a couple of things.

I’ve mentioned missing the friends I’ve made already, but I was also disappointed that I would have to abandon the ‘Dirty Dozen’ blog series. Although they’d proved more difficult to write than I expected, I don’t like not meeting my commitments. I’d suggested to Paul Vallee that maybe I could continue them.

I obviously planted a seed in his head and, on my last full day, we discussed continuing our working relationship and I was really chuffed when we decided to carry on on a part-time, occasional basis. As far as I’m concerned I am a one-man (at this stage) consulting business so I want to be able to work for multiple clients when the work is interesting.

We’ll define my continued involvement as we go, but the blog series will definitely continue and one is already in the pipeline. I think I might also be able to contribute to process definition, documentation and consulting on working methods in a rapidly expanding company, because those are strengths of mine (i.e. I’m the old curmudgeon! Well, maybe that word’s a little strong 😉) I hope there’ll be occasional technical work too but Pythian already have particularly strong technical resources among the full-time DBAs.

In the future I might work more or less for Pythian depending on their needs and my own but I can say that I’m delighted that it doesn’t end there for now.

Oh, and rest assured, one of the nice things about working with Pythian is that I can, as always, say whatever I want to say without fear of being reigned-in by corporate needs!

A result, some might say 😉