P-C, I recently turned down a director-level position + 20k raise to stay where I am. Because the work environment is really, really important to me (it would have been a mess I'd be taking over and having to fix). ETA: which is how I'd describe the sitation I walked into in 2007 in present job; it took over a year to clean up this place so I am not about to walk away when it's just gettin' good!
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javachik - Apr 09, 2009 12:59:14 pm PDT #6215 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
omnis_audis - Apr 09, 2009 12:59:45 pm PDT #6216 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
So I have a question: what is more important, a good work environment or advancing your career?If the bad environment is short term and pays a TON, it might be worth the switch. Have an exit plan at the ready, and save the dinero as you go. But if you are making ends meet, and enjoy your job and co-workers, that really is worth it's weight in gold.
Ginger - Apr 09, 2009 1:00:54 pm PDT #6217 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
And sadistic idiots can be killed.
Yeah, but if you get caught, it wreaks havoc with your career advancement. Also, the kind of organization that has sadistic idiots always seems to have a lot of sadistic idiot bench strength.
javachik - Apr 09, 2009 1:01:27 pm PDT #6218 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
But if you are making ends meet, and enjoy your job and co-workers, that really is worth it's weight in gold.
This. And I would also meet with your boss, or your boss's boss, and map out an advancement plan. It's really important that people know you're serious about moving up, and serious about the steps required for it.
Polter-Cow - Apr 09, 2009 1:02:03 pm PDT #6219 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
But if you are making ends meet, and enjoy your job and co-workers, that really is worth it's weight in gold.
This is what I feel like, but I also feel like I should be looking out for my career as a professional and an adult and all that. My uncle expects me to be making six figures by 2011, after all.
And I would also meet with your boss, or your boss's boss, and map out an advancement plan. It's really important that people know you're serious about moving up, and serious about the steps required for it.
The issue is this: I work in drug safety. I have been told that I do deserve a promotion in drug safety sometime this year. My bosses are also aware that drug safety is not the career path I chose; it's the one I fell into because that's where the need was in the company at the time. Drug safety is great and all, but I want to be a medical writer, and although they are trying their best to send any medical writing opportunities my way, they can't conjure them up out of thin air. So I feel like even though I'm gaining valuable work experience in general, I'm not making progress on the medical writing ladder.
tommyrot - Apr 09, 2009 1:02:53 pm PDT #6220 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah, but if you get caught, it wreaks havoc with your career advancement. Also, the kind of organization that has sadistic idiots always seems to have a lot of sadistic idiot bench strength.
Yeah, good points.
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Connie Neil - Apr 09, 2009 1:07:01 pm PDT #6221 of 30000
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My uncle expects me to be making six figures by 2011, after all.
Your family does seem to have expectations for you that are not necessarily in synch with your expectations.
omnis_audis - Apr 09, 2009 1:11:10 pm PDT #6222 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
My uncle expects me to be making six figures by 2011, after all.No disrespect for your family, but... what do * you * want? That is the most important thing.
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omnis, I do know I can tweak my spoiler font/background. I've yet to find a combo that makes it easy and not tiring to read what I want and not see what I don't want.Ita, I hear ya. I still have the default white background. The pale yellow spoiler works fine, but, it's a white background. I've been debating changing it out, but the spoiler font always stops me dead.
Pix - Apr 09, 2009 1:13:44 pm PDT #6223 of 30000
The status is NOT quo.
(Omnis, ita spells her name with a lowercase "i"--just letting you know because I know it is a sore point for her and you'd have no way to know.)
ION, I am off for a long weekend! Woot! Of course I have to grade 46 "Lost Books" of the Odyssey, which is not quite as exciting, but still. Time to GO HOME.
Glamcookie - Apr 09, 2009 1:16:08 pm PDT #6224 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
A really bad work environment can suck out so much of your soul and self-confidence that it ultimately won't advance your career.
Not enough WORD in the world. Having had an awful awful work environment in the not too distant past, I learned that it is the most important thing in the work world to me. The bad just took over my whole life and sucked any joy out of it. Thank God I'm out of that hell!