My Suitcase and the Dog

30 Years on the Road as a Software Consultant

von Alfredo Pantaleon

340 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The suitcase went on the bed every Sunday evening for thirty years.Not because the road was glamorous. Not because the airports and the hotel rooms and the Monday morning departures were anyone's idea of a good life. But because the work required it, and the work was real, and somewhere between the first flight out in 1996 and the last one thirty years later, the road became the thing that organized everything - the career, the finances, the marriage, the family, and the specific divided life of a man who was always either leaving or coming back, and who was never quite sure which one cost more.My Suitcase and the Dog is the memoir of thirty years on the road as an Oracle software consultant. It is the story of a career that began at character-mode terminals in the late 1990s and ended at the frontier of artificial intelligence - and of everything that happened to a family in the gap between those two points.It is the story of Angela, who held everything together across thirty years of weekday absences with a competence and a grace that this book cannot fully repay but tries to honestly account for.It is the story of two sons - Caio and Cristian - who grew up with a father who was present on weekends and absent on weekdays, and who became extraordinary men anyway.It is the story of the colleagues and characters who made the road bearable: the Wicked Chalupa and his daily identical status updates. Mr. Splashes, who whispered movie quotes during tense conference calls. The Diet Coke Monkey, stranded in Texas during September 11th. The Ramen Lord of Chicago. And the entire OB Ensemble - thirteen people on one impossible project who became, briefly and memorably, something like a family.And it is the story of Achilles. A black Labrador mix, born on Valentine's Day, raised in a college apartment of love, who arrived in the quiet of an empty nest and taught a man who had spent thirty years leaving how to finally stay.The suitcase is in the closet now.This is the story of how it got there - and what was waiting when it did.

• ISBN: 9798193345244
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.08.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp