HUZZRAHINGS?
Exactly six years ago today I started my first day my current place of work, should this fact be congratulated, commiserated or simply ignored?
I’m taking ten minutes out of my day (“So what” I say, I have never taken tea breaks, morning breaks, afternoon breaks or smoking breaks during my six years) to write on here. When I started on a whole £13k a year I figured that I should aim to work two years at this place and then move on furthering my career at some other firm. I don’t know what changed with this plan but I can’t ever remember marking two years off my calendar and then thinking “right, time’s up lets start applying for new jobs.” I suppose it’s laziness or the comfort of being in a job where you know exactly what you are doing, I guess the worst part is that I’m not sure I want a challenge, I enjoy my job here at times. My job role has evolved from being the office junior to a semi-respected company commodity to my current position (occupied for a year this month) of running the entire IT and Comms. The next step is my very Padawan learner, who starts full time on Monday.
I recognise that I can be pigeon-holed as boring, lazy and career unmotivated but I have very little reason to leave this organisation (The word organisation used in the flimsiest of ways.) With the challenges that have been internally thrown at me I suppose I’ve been kept entertained at work and no matter where I ply my trade I’ll always be dealing with Microsoft Window’s errors… So I suppose I’d rather deal with these problems at a work place that’s only ten minutes down the road from where I live than have to commute to London or Birmingham for a likewise scenario.
I think Money will play a large part in the direction of my career in these forthcoming months. I’m personally doing over twice as much work for my company due to staff cuts, saving them this year about £50,000 in what were the Systems Manager’s wages & perks and now I think want a cut of this!
- Werk – From above.
It’s just a shame that at the moment the company that I work for is claiming to be on it’s knees and trying to crawl through this recession. Most people are predicting the end of these difficult financial times that has had pretty much everyone on their toes so it’s going to be interesting where we go from here. If the profit ever starts rolling in – how much is going to get poured back into the lining of the company before the cash spills over to the likes of me? That said; we’re not out of it yet and will there be anything left before the end? It’ll be a shame to see a centuary-old business collapse around the people that have worked so hard to keep it uprighthrough these hard times.