Company: IBM
Date: 2008-07-04
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Quit managing in the short term
Pros: Many opportunities if you want to travel.  Working directly for a client can be rewarding.
Cons: Many opportunities, BUT you have to travel.  There is really no work-life balance.  If you are supporting commercial clients, the clients come first above everything else.  If you are in the I/T side of the business, you have no work-life balance.  The 100% expectation is to be "on the road".  Nothing else matters and there is no sympathy from exec management.  IBM has spun the media on this and it is beyond me why the covers do not get blown off on this issue.