{"id":77,"date":"2008-11-12T10:56:44","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T10:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=77"},"modified":"2016-07-20T15:37:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T15:37:36","slug":"getting-passionate-about-sap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"getting passionate about SAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originated as a reponse to an article on JonERP.com about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonerp.com\/component\/option,com_mojo\/Itemid,57\/p,66\/\">&#8220;the biggest mistake that SAP job seekers make&#8221;<\/a>. I&#8217;ve tried a few times to add it as a comment, but for some reason it just doesn&#8217;t seem to like it, so I decided to post it here and trackback it. There is a lot of talk about &#8220;passion for SAP&#8221; in this article and that&#8217;s what I am mainly focussing on.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">SAP and Passion ?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Developing a passion for SAP is certainly something that has happened to me over the last decade! But to be honest, I didn&#8217;t specifically choose to end up within the SAP arena. &#8220;SAP Passion&#8221; was something that developed over time, especially when I started getting involved in the &#8220;hot stuff&#8221; (a little contradiction to Jon&#8217;s post), such as SAP Web App development and CRM. However, this was after 4 years of solid SAP SD, FI, MM development support work and upgrade projects. A cowboy has to earn his spurs, I guess.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">So how do you develop a passion for SAP when you&#8217;re a newcomer? <\/span><\/p>\n<p>To start with, SAP is not an area to easily get passionate about! There are lots of other areas in IT (web design, Flash technology to name just two) that rather get your &#8220;IT juices&#8221; going. Having said that, everybody&#8217;s different and like in all other areas of IT\/life, I think the following points might help if you want to break into SAP-Land:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> look beyond the SAP plate<\/li>\n<li>immerse yourself with technolgy that is not connected to SAP (yet) or on the brink (Web 2.0, social media)<\/li>\n<li>use conventions, meetings, networking tools (Twitter, LinkedIn, etc) to surround yourself with other SAP peers and collaborate<\/li>\n<li>read SAP and industry news<\/li>\n<li>find an employer that invests in your skills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope there is a little help in those &#8220;lines of wisdom&#8221; above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originated as a reponse to an article on JonERP.com about &#8220;the biggest mistake that SAP job seekers make&#8221;. I&#8217;ve tried a few times to add it as a comment, but for some reason it just doesn&#8217;t seem to like it, so I decided to post it here and trackback it. There is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[21,20,15],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sap-blogosphere","category-market","tag-career","tag-jon-reed","tag-sap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pixelbase.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}