One of the company’s former vice presidents asked me if I wanted to join his Management Consulting Company as a Senior Partner and I did that for almost a year, working mainly as consultant for major oil companies.
Then an old colleague from the Telecom Industry called me and asked if I wanted to work to start up a new telecom company in Sri Lanka, I looked at it and the job was so interesting that I could not say no. I spent almost 2 years at Sri Lanka as Vice President of Telecom Systems and IT of Suntel Ltd. and then I moved back to work with Ericsson (the largest supplier of telecom equipment in the world), in Sweden. I had an appointment as Business Area Manager for Telecom Support Systems and was responsible for many employees around the world. This was again administrative work so when a customer in Bolivia had severe technical problems I volunteered to go there as a Systems Consultant to solve the problems. After about two years the job was finished and I moved back to Sweden again. Now I got a job as Ericsson’s Global Liaison Director, a job with good salary but it also meant long hours and a lot of travelling.
I have sacrificed a lot when working as hard as I did but I liked it and no one forced me, it was my own choice… I had only a few friends as I spent most of the time working but the ones I have were dear. I had no problem at all to learn to know new people but it was difficult to maintain relations due to my work situation. One day I sat down and asked myself “what are you doing?” and I decided to quit Ericsson and to start to live a little, not only work…