One Man's Trip Around The Corporate World

This is a timeline (a road map) of my career, in a nutshell.  A round, circular nutshell.

• 8/1994:  graduated college
• 9/1994-3/1997:  just a blur, did it really happen, or was it just a dream?  A bad, bad dream?
• 4/1997:  hired at “Company A”
• 5/1997-4/1998:  Company A;  “This is how we do things here, we find it to be successful, hopefully you can understand and blah blah blah…”
• 5/1998:  Company B buys Company A
• 6/1998-12/2002:  Company B; “You’re the experts, we’re going to sit back and let you do things your way.  We’re going to stay out of the way and let you do your thing.”
• 1/2003-8/2005:  Company B;  “No, no, you’re doing it all wrong.  We can’t have this anymore.  From now on, we’re going to do things OUR way.”
• 9/2005-10/2006:  Company B;  “No, no, you’re still not doing it right, we’re going to have to close up shop.  You can move up here if you want to.”
• 11/2006:  Company B: “Well, we need you to move up here.  But we’re still going to do things our way.”
• 12/2006-1/2010:  Company B “See, our way is working, right?  Right?”
• 2/2010:  Company B buys Company C.
• 3/2010-3/2012:  Company B, to Company C;  “You’re the experts, we’re going to sit back and let you do things your way.  We’re going to stay out of the way and let you do your thing.”
• 4/2012: Company B, to Company C;  “We’re going to let you take over the remnants of Company A, now that it's almost totally dismantled.  You’re the experts, we’re going to sit back and let you do things your way.  We’re going to stay out of the way and let you do your thing.”
• TODAY:  Me, in thought, in listening to how Company C does things; “Man, this sounds familiar.  Really familiar.  Where did…oh?  Oh??  We’re going back to the way things were done in 1998?”

All companies appearing in this work are real. Very real.  Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely intentional.