However, you don't have many options if you leave in a mid-technical environment like Italy, where my natural attitude for freelance consulting is not easily sustainable. On the other hand, taking an airplane each Monday morning and sleeping in hotels five days out of seven is no more in my top list of wet dreams... I realized that after suddenly awaking in the middle of the night without knowing in what city or even nation I was: if you did consulting for more than few weeks per year, you know what I mean.
At the end, even if one is in the middle of a transition, the most important thing is to know who you are and where you want to go in the next following years. I then was re-reading an old, beautiful article from Dan North when, in his blog, I have found the best possibile definition for what I want to go (back) next:
[...] In particular I found I had moved away from the things I really enjoyed – writing software that matters and building high-performing software teams – more towards big organisational change, which, while it arguably has a bigger impact on an organisation, isn’t really where I wanted to be. So my criteria for what to do next came down to: writing business-critical software in a small, high-performing team, in an organisation that trusts its people and encourages them to excel. Having a great relationship with the consumers of that software and having them closely engaged with its delivery would be a huge plus.The above bold sentence should fly into my CV under the section "Career Objectives".
