I'm sorry, JZ, but I know how those pay scales work and, as you know, the people doing the hiring often have no choice. They may have the option to move you up with raises fairly quickly, though, since you have a higher midpoint now.
I was in basically a similar situation when I moved to CO. I moved to a higher level job with more potential after maxing out my no-future position. I didn't get any increase in pay - they tried to make it out that since they weren't making a reduction in cost of living that I was actually getting a raise, but still - no increase. BUT since then I have already gotten a promotion with a nice increase that never would have happened in my old position.
It's a 5% increase - which doesn't suck, except it's 5% up from the salary I was hired at 3+ years ago. The new division is under the umbrella of a dept that does periodic performance and salary reviews of all its management-ish people (I won't in fact be managing anyone, but this position is technically management), roughly every couple of years but more at the discretion of the higher-ups. I don't know where we are in the cycle.
Right now I'm about to be the highest-paid person at my level in the entire department, which is another whole level of ridiculous (in my small office there's one person who's been working there for 7 years, and I think I'll now be out-earning her. System of pure craxy.).
Sorry the outcome wasn't what you hoped for. Glad it doesn't totally suck though.
Bobby Franklin, the Georgia state representative who proposed any number of insane, hateful and embarrassing bills, has been found dead at 59. He's the one who proposed legislation that would allow guns in church; abolish driver's licenses; mandate the state to pay debts in silver or gold; change the rape law to replace the word "victim" with "accuser;" and an annual anti-abortion bill, which this year included a provision that all miscarriages be investigated as to their cause. While I would have loved to seem him be trounced in an election, I'm finding commenters a little too full of glee. I know; never read the comments.
Okay, done bitching. Excelsior! and all that. I'm in a better position than I was two weeks ago, and when I hit 20 years it'll probably be better still. Suzi giveth hope.
Time to look at the various courses the Development Office offers and see what's worth taking. CSS? Dreamweaver? Flash? Java? XML? Pre-award grant administration? Sadly, there are no Victorian lit classes on offer.
I vote grant admin first (because your life is obvs a democracy!).
If you can help bring money in and distribute it efficiently, you will have more negotiating oomph next time.
Seconding grant admin. But lobby for Victorian Lit - just think how actually useful and work-relevant lashings of Trollope would be in a vast slow-moving bureaucracy!!
I'm thirding the grant admin course. Grant writers and admins have jobs for life and it is a great, post-retirement/second income gig.
I wish I had the acumen and patience for it.
What side/part of the process is "pre-award grant administration"? I ask because I could slot it on either end, and am curious. Is it about proposal development or grantmaking or what?
