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My personal case for making a change now, before it happens to me.

The general rule of thumb on how often it is recommended to change jobs used to be every five years not too long ago. Nowadays it is closer to the one to three years range, as I just learned after skimming a few sites offering general career advice. I have been working at my employer Avaya for almost 12 years, and from this 12 years, the last 9 years - although, I have grown responsibility-wise - were spent in essentially the same position. Of course, this, in itself isn't the reason, or justification for moving on to the next stage of my career by leaving Avaya. In this post, I summarize my thoughts and feelings about making this decision for myself.

Why and how I have shifted my GTD organization backbone in Evernote towards notebooks.

I have been using Evernote to manage my GTD tasks and projects from the very beginning. In case you haven't heard of the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology - the chance of this is pretty slim as it is very popular and gets much love on the Internet for well over a decade now - it is a conceptually very simple yet extremely powerful project management and self-organization system. Finding the right technical implementation of GTD for myself took some time and also involved some trial and error, but as soon as I have found The Secret Weapon (TSW), I have decided to go with it. It worked like a charm in general, it also has proven to provide great coverage of the GTD workflow. However, The Secret Weapon's approach is highly tag oriented and this technical detail has exposed some drawbacks with time. After living with these for a while, it was time to look into how I could hedge the elements of friction in the system while retaining the granularity and flexibility that the tag system of TSW has provided.