Work : ITT Industries

"The drive to understand things that are not yet understood is a very powerful force in the life of an INTP. Where the Ti preference is strong, this drive can override the experiential element so strongly that the INTP will become quickly bored with anything that he has successfully analysed to the point of understanding it. Once understood, it has nothing left to offer, once the satisfaction which comes with achieving the goal of understanding diminishes." -- Paul James

I like this excerpt for some reason and, in a strange way, it perfectly sums up the conclusion of my time at ITT.

Let's start from the beginning.

It was the summer of 2003 and I had graduated not a month before. In the meantime, I had been pretty much sitting around, sleeping late, playing games, trying to decide what to do with myself. Grad school? Get a job? Take a break? If I wanted to travel in my life, surely, this would be the time. Oh how quickly Fate sorts out all of these quandaries.

It was quite a year. I look back on the work that I did there as some of my most impressive work and I'm greatful that I was given the opportunity and responsibility to do what I did; I'm greatful that I was given the chance to shine. It is an opportunity which I have not been afforded since (I am typing this as a consultant at Merrill Lynch now) and one that I yearn for. I am the type of person that enjoys responsibility and a challenge; without them, it seems work is simply a meaningless dance of keystrokes.

My time there didn't end on entirely good terms. But I think that it was the right time for both parties to move on. I thank, John, Chris, and Mark for believing in me.