The Career List
Posted on January 11th, 2008 by Sterkworks
Not sure if this is venting, or sorting things out, but here goes.
Things I like about my job:
- I can learn anything I want about marketing. I can pick a topic and go for it. I can spend as much time as I want reading, learning, and thinking. If I wanted, I could attend any training opportunity that presented itself.
- Many people in the organization value my skills and expertise and tell me that.
- I have a respectable income.
- I have decent benefits.
- I can dress any way I want and nobody will care.
- I am allowed to adjust my schedule to accommodate personal and family priorities.
- There are some wonderful people I get to associate with on a daily basis.
- I am 100% vested.
- I am comfortable.
Things I don’t like about my job:
- It has become a job, and not part of a career.
- I never know if my boss values my skills on their own merits, or because she doesn’t have a clue how to do things.
- I have no mentor.
- Any great ideas I have that will benefit the company, won’t be put into place because of corporate politics and my lack of presence on the corporate ladder.
- I will never have a presence on the corporate ladder.
- I can give 110% or 50% effort and the results will be perceived as the same.
- I make below what I am worth in the marketplace and the company pretty much has a policy of no raises.
- I am completely bored with the industry I am in, after 15 years.
- The industry I am in is really weird, verging on insane.
- I am comfortable.
What do I do, if anything? I still have twenty years left before retirement. All suggestions welcomed.
Filed under: Place d'employ, Marketing
When I read this I read the “like” and thought, “She can’t want to leave her job!” However, when I finished reading your list of “don’t likes” I thought, “Hmm, maybe Sterk needs to find a new job where she is more than comfortable, appreciated, compensated and credited for all she does, and challenged so that she can grow and truly enjoy her job more days than those she doesn’t.”
You mentioned that you are able to take advantage of learning and training opportunities, maybe 2008 is the year to sharpen up old skills and gain new ones; all the while doing your current job & keeping your eyes open for new possibilities. I wish you the best and I hope you can find yourself in a job or career that is the most satisfying for you.
Just my 2cents.
have you ever considered pottery?