Love my job hate the PayI have a dillema and have found myself a bit confused on which way I should go in my career. I am a 2004 Business Admn college graduate who got into the IT field before I graduated a grew to love it. Since graduation I have had two IT positions that I have greatly enjoyed. I moved from AL to IL for my current position, with the expectation of learning new things and acquiring skills that would help me move forward in Information Technology, but I have not. My current "job" is approx 50 miles away from my home and the pay is no where near what I feel I am worth. I have held this position since Apr07 and I already feel burned out from the driving and stress associated with living paycheck to paycheck. I love the work I do and the environment, I just dont think I am living up to my potential or getting paid for it. I want to learn more and gain a sense of responsibility and importance, and this position does not offer that at all. I feel expendable, as if myself or the work I do dosent mean much, but at the same time I work for a well known and highly profitable company, and there "might" be a chance that if I stay long enough I' ll move up. Therefore, I am incredibly indecisive as to whether to stay or go. Please help!!!!!! You' re making this way too complicated. Since you don' t have anywhere else to go to, right now you need to stay. If/When you find something better, then you go. Simple. So, QUIETLY start a job search and see if someone else will offer you a better deal, if so, take it. If not, continue where you are and build your experience until someone else does want you or you move up. Truth of the situation is...everybody in every job is expendable. Your primary job is whatever you were hired for. Your secondary job is making the powers that be feel that you are capable of so much more and will be able to raise the company to a higher level of success. Even if it isn' t outward success. Your feeling of being expendable means, for the most part, that you are not challenged and need more to do. Another reason is that you are tired and stressed and being so, you don' t realize how much more you could be doing to challenge yourself. Toward this end, I think that you have three choices:
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