Less is More?
The title of this post is actually really funny to me. One of the companies I work for uses it constantly.
The thing that gets me is that I do a lot at the company. I “wear many hats” let’s just say some fit better than others. But the reason I stick around I guess is because I came out of college a year ago and had no idea what to do. Since I interned at this place and was hired for some work I just stuck around.
I am one of those people who will do anything new. I’ll try anything at work just to learn something new. I get bored easily so anything new is interesting to me. Now the thing I don’t get is you do all of this stuff and yet the pay does not increase. So I have to keep the job at the amusement park summer job for 5 months to help me get through the winter.
I guess I just feel stuck. I like the fun radio job, but it’s not paying well and the amusement park job that I have had for 9 seasons pays more than the radio. I like how big corporations don’t like to pay people for the time they actually put in.
What to do?
Any ideas?
Or has this happen to anyone else?
Later!
posted by iBlog Stuff Blogger @ 5/13/2005 09:23:00 PM
2 Comments:
I too graduated college but the got promoted at the job I started as part time. While I was going to school I found myself promoted twice and now that I had graduated I was running the place. I was now working a leadership position that I could have had without ever going to college. Once I realized that I started to look for alternatives. I no longer work there and am as happy as can be. I'm done with "jobs", it's time for a career.
Well, you should start looking for other jobs. But the first thing you need to do is figure out what it is you want to do - what job has a combination of the elements of the other jobs that you described enjoying (or some of those elements - the perfect job is hard to find). Books like "What Color Is Your Parachute" can help with this.
Don't settle for a boring/stressful job just to pay the bills. I've done that before, and it will catch up with you in a bad way. Keep looking until you're happy.
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