After spending nearly 19 years working in IT operations for local government, Mike Wilcox, from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, left his secure, well-paid job this past summer to dive headfirst into learning, training and building a consulting firm based around the cloud.
He refers to his professional transformation as “the perfect timing for a change” and even a “mid-career crisis.” However, when pressed for what really motivated the shift, he says the impending popularity and interest in the cloud—coupled with the fear that this outside interest could soon make his own job obsolete—led him to “retool technically.”
