Update
I know everyone on here pretty much knows what's going on already. But I find myself, after missing my first day of work at a new location, and looking at starting tomorrow, incredibly anxious.
There is a part of me that really doesn't know what I'm getting into. There's a large part of me that understands that this could be the biggest challenge and undertaking of my life. And there is a part of me that really understands, I could be going places. The part that scares me, is that it is in an industry I don't know the first thing about, in a position I've never, ever prepared myself for. In the same breath, it is incredibly thrilling, and yet I feel absolutely terrible. People spend years preparing for the positions it sounds like they want to push me through, and what have I had? A little bad luck, a windfall of good luck, and the fluke of being at the right place, at the right time.
Park keeps dropping hints, The Knight has apparently been monitoring me extensively this past month, especially on my phone calls. They say I've surpassed the other service writer who was my competition (and he grew up in a garage), the techs are pissed, and the Ds are insisting if things don't go well, that I should come back. Like, really put up a stink to come back, because everyone else thinks the dealership won't let me go/place me elsewhere. I've been told that if things are miserable, threaten to quit for a pay hike, because I'll probably get it. That's not something I'd do. I'm a little more honest than that, but all this news is really starting to intimidate me.
And even the good news is starting to terrify me. Park is trying his best to reassure me. He even went all dad on me (which was hilarious, and a little Everin-y). But according to what I can glean from him, here is an approximation of where things stand.
In one month of employment, I am being pushed into a position of double the responsibility. I will be service writing, I will be shipping and receiving parts, and I will be one of the two keyholders in the dealership. I will not have a manager on site, and I don't know whether I'm answering to Park or Brule (I'm using codenames. Shush XD), and it's already been said that I have the whole run of the back of this building. I am free to reorganize and redo as I please. So long as I am doing the job right, I can do it any way I want. They are heavily encouraging me to set up my own system, granted I already see a lot of room for improvement. Organizing parts so clients can't see the dust and stacks of empty boxes is going to be a huge start. Taking a little pride in the building and making it look nice a close second. But that doesn't change the fact that, in jobs where I've always had an immediate supervisor, a boss to to hook my nose, point me in a direction, and straighten my course, this is an incredibly new experience for me.
But the future suddenly looks intensely frightening, challenging, and more than I've ever asked for in my life. Through hints, and what I've been directly told, here are things, as I've been able to piece together.
In a month, or two months time, my current dealership is moving to a larger building. That gives me that long to organize and set things up as I see fit, on both the Service end, and the Parts end. When the building is moved, Park has assured me they will hire a Parts person to take some of the load off of my shoulders - however, I will still have to train, and aid that person to the best of my capabilities. (Me. Training a person about I job I barely know a thing about.)
Being in a bigger building, at a bigger location, we are bound to get more people coming in to service their vehicles. That means, more techs will be hired. More techs will fall beneath my umbrella to manage and divide work fairly, and when it becomes too much for one adviser (which made me scratch my head a little, because I know that one adviser alone can handle the building I'm being moved to), he will hire a second to help and possibly/eventually replace me. I would have now been weaned out of the Parts/Service position.
From here, Park begins to drop hints that the new location is going to need a manager in the Parts/Service department. He has made no small implication that it's going to be me. On top of that, The Knight who is still this faceless, corporate entity to me, continues to invisibly breathe down the back of my neck about the advertising position. Eventually, I should be weaned out of the dealership entirely, and into this advertising position that will expand to cover six to eight dealerships. And from there, who knows where I will be going.
I don't know what's grabbed hold of me, and what's moving me so far and so fast, but it is thrilling, incredible, and mortifying. I don't know what I'm looking ahead to, and I don't know if it's a good thing. A great number of people think I'm going to be capable of incredible things, in an industry I've never known the first thing about.
I truly don't know what lies ahead of me, but I know it's going to be a lot of change. Don't get me wrong, I'm ready to dive into that change, but I'm worried... really worried about getting pulled under by it.
There is a part of me that really doesn't know what I'm getting into. There's a large part of me that understands that this could be the biggest challenge and undertaking of my life. And there is a part of me that really understands, I could be going places. The part that scares me, is that it is in an industry I don't know the first thing about, in a position I've never, ever prepared myself for. In the same breath, it is incredibly thrilling, and yet I feel absolutely terrible. People spend years preparing for the positions it sounds like they want to push me through, and what have I had? A little bad luck, a windfall of good luck, and the fluke of being at the right place, at the right time.
Park keeps dropping hints, The Knight has apparently been monitoring me extensively this past month, especially on my phone calls. They say I've surpassed the other service writer who was my competition (and he grew up in a garage), the techs are pissed, and the Ds are insisting if things don't go well, that I should come back. Like, really put up a stink to come back, because everyone else thinks the dealership won't let me go/place me elsewhere. I've been told that if things are miserable, threaten to quit for a pay hike, because I'll probably get it. That's not something I'd do. I'm a little more honest than that, but all this news is really starting to intimidate me.
And even the good news is starting to terrify me. Park is trying his best to reassure me. He even went all dad on me (which was hilarious, and a little Everin-y). But according to what I can glean from him, here is an approximation of where things stand.
In one month of employment, I am being pushed into a position of double the responsibility. I will be service writing, I will be shipping and receiving parts, and I will be one of the two keyholders in the dealership. I will not have a manager on site, and I don't know whether I'm answering to Park or Brule (I'm using codenames. Shush XD), and it's already been said that I have the whole run of the back of this building. I am free to reorganize and redo as I please. So long as I am doing the job right, I can do it any way I want. They are heavily encouraging me to set up my own system, granted I already see a lot of room for improvement. Organizing parts so clients can't see the dust and stacks of empty boxes is going to be a huge start. Taking a little pride in the building and making it look nice a close second. But that doesn't change the fact that, in jobs where I've always had an immediate supervisor, a boss to to hook my nose, point me in a direction, and straighten my course, this is an incredibly new experience for me.
But the future suddenly looks intensely frightening, challenging, and more than I've ever asked for in my life. Through hints, and what I've been directly told, here are things, as I've been able to piece together.
In a month, or two months time, my current dealership is moving to a larger building. That gives me that long to organize and set things up as I see fit, on both the Service end, and the Parts end. When the building is moved, Park has assured me they will hire a Parts person to take some of the load off of my shoulders - however, I will still have to train, and aid that person to the best of my capabilities. (Me. Training a person about I job I barely know a thing about.)
Being in a bigger building, at a bigger location, we are bound to get more people coming in to service their vehicles. That means, more techs will be hired. More techs will fall beneath my umbrella to manage and divide work fairly, and when it becomes too much for one adviser (which made me scratch my head a little, because I know that one adviser alone can handle the building I'm being moved to), he will hire a second to help and possibly/eventually replace me. I would have now been weaned out of the Parts/Service position.
From here, Park begins to drop hints that the new location is going to need a manager in the Parts/Service department. He has made no small implication that it's going to be me. On top of that, The Knight who is still this faceless, corporate entity to me, continues to invisibly breathe down the back of my neck about the advertising position. Eventually, I should be weaned out of the dealership entirely, and into this advertising position that will expand to cover six to eight dealerships. And from there, who knows where I will be going.
I don't know what's grabbed hold of me, and what's moving me so far and so fast, but it is thrilling, incredible, and mortifying. I don't know what I'm looking ahead to, and I don't know if it's a good thing. A great number of people think I'm going to be capable of incredible things, in an industry I've never known the first thing about.
I truly don't know what lies ahead of me, but I know it's going to be a lot of change. Don't get me wrong, I'm ready to dive into that change, but I'm worried... really worried about getting pulled under by it.