Why I'm leaving CAFM behind!

Having spent more than 20 years in the FM arena working on my own CAFM solution in the 90s and then working with some of the bigger players in the CAFM marketplace in the past 15 years, it took me a long time to come to an opinion and decision that in 2015 I have just about had enough of this industry and some of the people and/or companies in it.

It has been a rollercoaster ride, where I have met some amazing people and on the flip side I have met some people that I hope I never meet again. The industry has some distinct people that full of b&%lsh!t and have such a false sense of being in the workplace, I am so glad that I didn't ever meet these people outside of work on a personal level.

Having been let down so many times by people in recent times, my decision was easily made to just walk away from the industry and CAFM as a whole, moving onto back into a software development environment, working on projects for companies across a broad spectrum of industries, not just focused on one industry. This way I can spread any interactions with faceless people and avoid interaction with them as much as possible.

No-one in the industry ever looks outside of the box, they all sit there in their own blinkered little voids, worrying about themselves and nothing else. The industry could do so much more for the environment and the people within it. But people and their attitudes have to change. And the change would have to be dramatic.

Compounded by a conversation I had just the other day with a software vendor who's response for not rolling out an additional module for a client was "they haven't even started using that yet, so why should they have the additional module". Such a blinkered approach to project delivery and immensely frustrating.

So my decision to leave the b&%lsh!t behind is justified and I am happy pursuing my software development and photography passions.