Welcome to my journal, it's going to be a weekly blog about my journey into becoming a CTO.
So something crazy cool happened! I'm a CTO! It's insane.
I'm not even sure how it happened or why but it has. It's a very scary thought to think I have topped out in my career. I mean where do I even start, how to I switch my brain from developer to manager, where do I start with recruitment. How on earth do I manage a team?
The above thoughts have gone through my head in the last week and a half leading up to my first day. Even the drive to the office yesterday, my head was wracked full of various thoughts and ideas as to why this was a crazy bad idea! I mean I programme things, why on earth should I manage people!
I guess I'll be here to let you know how that goes over the coming weeks and months.
Top comments (15)
Congratulations :) Looking forward to reading more... Development careers seem full of opportunities for impostor syndrome! Becoming a CTO directly from a development role is a good step though, worked for me.
Congrats!
Congrats and all the best at your new role.
Hire Me xD 😝
Major congrats, Graham! So awesome to hear this and wishing ya the best in your new position.
Thank you Michael!!
Whenever I read CTO, I think "Chief Toilet Officer"
I would feel more comfortable as a Chief Toilet Officer!!
No worries. I have a feeling you'll be doing great.
Best of luck, @grahammorby !
In my last gig I turned up at the company HQ and found that as well as managing a large dev team, I was also responsible for the soap dispensers in all the toilets - so yeah that probably WAS the meaning of my job title there lol.
@Xander don't be like that!
:D a little bit of lol is ok
Nice! We're gonna need some back story for this sir 😁
Back story will come in the coming blogs!
Congrats and all the best