I just can't win!
I hate when you are led to believe something and when you are amidst it, things turn out totally different. About three months back I left the company I'd been with for nearly 8 years for several reasons. The new position I was taking had a lot of great benefits...more money, better hours, more opportunity for recognition and advancement, etc. I was very selective when looking for another company and deciding what type of position I'd take. In a way, I kind of settled for a position one level lower than what I was looking for merely to get a foot in the door and to be on my way down the yellow brick road to what the future held.
Fast forward three months to where I am now...today. I am happy to work for an organization that shows it truly values its employees and recognizes them for a job well done and happy to take the better wages they are paying me than what I was earning before. I am not happy to be bored out of my mind after only three months. This job is already old hat and I don't find anything challenging about it, other than making sure the other manager is doing her goddamn job and getting to work on time (she is usually late 1-2 days a week but always makes sure she has time to stop and get her delicious Starbuck's before showing up to the office).
Usually when one takes a new position or when starting with a new company, he or she will take a multitude of classes to learn about their new job, yada, yada, yada. I have attended one orientation class and that is it. Not because there aren't classes being offered, but because the classes wouldn't teach me anything I don't already know. I have talked to several others in detail about the cirriculum of these classes and they have confirmed that they would indeed be a waste of my time, seeing as I have 8 years of banking experience and my old bank and the new one use the same mainframe system. So you see, I'm not being egotistical or cocky, acting like I am better than others...I simply know my stuff and am way too qualified for this stupid job.
Rewind to an hour ago. After getting an email from a friend and former co-worker about a weekend dinner, I went to my old company's website and applied for a job I told everyone I'd never do. I was basically shouting from the hilltops saying I'd never go back to the department or take this job. So what does the bored, already disgruntled employee do? She applies for said job that she cried she'd never take and did so as quickly as she could.
Once my friends find out and see this LJ post I might be eating crow. BUT, who can blame me. Why not go back to a company I'm comfortable with and make about $10,000 more or so a year than I am making now? Why not go back, knowing that I will once again be over qualified for the job but look at it as a fast track to advance in the department I once loathed and hated. I have come to the very sad realization (once again in my life) that no one can ever have a career that the love. Most people will go through life with merely a J-O-B that pays the bills but they won't ever have true happiness when it comes to work.
I know if I am accepted back to my old company that there are some risks. I've heard through the rumor mill that the department is moving to Texas, but you can't believe every rumor you hear. I will be going back within one year of leaving, so at least I'll get my senority back so if I were to get laid off I'd be in fat city with severance pay.
I'm just going to sit back and wait to see what happens with the whole thing. If I don't get the job back at my old company then, whatever. At least I still have a job, right?
Fast forward three months to where I am now...today. I am happy to work for an organization that shows it truly values its employees and recognizes them for a job well done and happy to take the better wages they are paying me than what I was earning before. I am not happy to be bored out of my mind after only three months. This job is already old hat and I don't find anything challenging about it, other than making sure the other manager is doing her goddamn job and getting to work on time (she is usually late 1-2 days a week but always makes sure she has time to stop and get her delicious Starbuck's before showing up to the office).
Usually when one takes a new position or when starting with a new company, he or she will take a multitude of classes to learn about their new job, yada, yada, yada. I have attended one orientation class and that is it. Not because there aren't classes being offered, but because the classes wouldn't teach me anything I don't already know. I have talked to several others in detail about the cirriculum of these classes and they have confirmed that they would indeed be a waste of my time, seeing as I have 8 years of banking experience and my old bank and the new one use the same mainframe system. So you see, I'm not being egotistical or cocky, acting like I am better than others...I simply know my stuff and am way too qualified for this stupid job.
Rewind to an hour ago. After getting an email from a friend and former co-worker about a weekend dinner, I went to my old company's website and applied for a job I told everyone I'd never do. I was basically shouting from the hilltops saying I'd never go back to the department or take this job. So what does the bored, already disgruntled employee do? She applies for said job that she cried she'd never take and did so as quickly as she could.
Once my friends find out and see this LJ post I might be eating crow. BUT, who can blame me. Why not go back to a company I'm comfortable with and make about $10,000 more or so a year than I am making now? Why not go back, knowing that I will once again be over qualified for the job but look at it as a fast track to advance in the department I once loathed and hated. I have come to the very sad realization (once again in my life) that no one can ever have a career that the love. Most people will go through life with merely a J-O-B that pays the bills but they won't ever have true happiness when it comes to work.
I know if I am accepted back to my old company that there are some risks. I've heard through the rumor mill that the department is moving to Texas, but you can't believe every rumor you hear. I will be going back within one year of leaving, so at least I'll get my senority back so if I were to get laid off I'd be in fat city with severance pay.
I'm just going to sit back and wait to see what happens with the whole thing. If I don't get the job back at my old company then, whatever. At least I still have a job, right?