I compromised on my new job
The market is soft and I accepted a job at a pay cut, a longer commute, and an open (no offices or cubes, everyone in the same area) work environment. On the upside, the benefits are good and the company is doing well.
My question is, has anyone been in a similar situation, and how did you pump yourself up enough to go in as a little excited as opposed to feeling you had sold out a bit? I want to give this every chance to be a good work experience but that nagging feeling of having settled is hard to shake.
Any advice is appreciated.
If possible, invest in a good ear piece to drown out the noise.
Ironically, it's easier to find a job when you already have a job. Stay put for at least a year (that's really not that long), and then start making some contacts and sending out your resume. Go through a headhunter in your field, if they exist, or even an agency that offers "temp to perm" positions. You'll find that it's much easier to get in the door for an interview when you're already employed.
If you just think of this job as a 1-year stepping stone to something better, it may be easier to handle. And who knows? In a year the company you're with may offer you more money and/or a promotion, making a new job search unnecessary. Anything can happen.
Don't feel like you sold out. Feel like you did what you had to do to keep the rent paid and food on the table in a tough economy/job market. You've succeeded where a lot of people on these boards have not. Be proud of that.
outa,
That is one great post. It's what I needed to be reminded of.
You have lifted my load a bit. Thank you, my friend.
Best wishes to you and yours.
seeker
I'm an AVP and I worked for 2 years as a part-time temporary funded marginally related to my field position at a Coordinator level and supplemented that with 30 hours a week cashiering and cutting fabric at Joanns. We had just moved back to the US from overseas, my hubby was in school full time (and no, we're not college-aged by a long shot).
You do what you have to do. You tell yourself you're paying your rent, or that you're looking for the next great thing, then you do that. Do a great job where you are, who knows what will come of it!
Tess
Hi,
How do you maintain such a positive attitude? We've been posting on these forums for a long time, and you have always looked at every situation in a very unbiased manner, and seen the good through the bad....how do you do that? In any case, I have a great deal of respect for you and your opinions, even if we disagree sometimes.
tb:)
**Just thought I'd mention it!
AVP? Don't be so hard on yourself, I sure you much more than an Average Valuable Player. I'll bet your an MVP like the rest of us! I know, I'm the only one who thinks I'm funny, but, hey, I'm a legend in my own mind.
All seriousness aside, that's good advice, all you can do is take the best job you can find and try to be successful at it. If you go into a job thinking you're too good for it, you'll likely be a failure at it.
I worked through a strike some years ago. Those of us in engineering who admitted to knowing how to do any real work found ourselves reassigned. I was a pertty highly paid riveter. How we took it was all attitude. Some of the guys cried and complained. I didn't like undercuting the union, but otherwise I loved it. There weren't enough of us to really effect the strike anyway. I found it interesting to actually build something for a change. I would have enventually gotten old, just like anything else. As an extra bonus, even though we were exempt, they paid us OT.
I was terminated from my job I was at for one year and three months, I had taken a new position at the company and thought it was a good move, it wasn't. I never expressed to my boss that I was frustrated and ended up doing things to get fired. Why couldn't they just move me back to my old position?
Now I am trying to find a position and the only one I've found is so stressful, it has only been a week. I feel like walking out already before getting fired. Should I just go back to trying to claim unemployment?-which I have never received yet from my previous job? I need money because I have rent, kids,etc.
I don't understand why there is no help from places in time of need like this for women out of work, for food stamps, help with health insurance for the kids-everything has to be proven with paperwork or you make too much money?
I have a college degree and still can't find anything, I'm just frustrated....any good advice?
Thanks! I guess again, it goes back to my very practical nature. A lot of what I do in my job is to take very complex and often theoretical stuff and boil it down into "why do I care?" Then I take that "why do I care" and fnd a way to impart that to my internal customers. Stuff on these boards is very similar. There's always a lot of extra stuff, emotion, etc. involved for the poster, but when you get down to brass tacks, I'm always about getting or keeping the poster employed, even if that means telling them things they don't want to hear. Because I'm not emotionally tied to someone who is posting, I can cut through most of the red herrings.
And in my case, after I did my time in those two jobs, I found a good job back in my field. I took it (even though I had a 2.5 hour commute each way for 3 months until we could relocate) and even though I was working for what turned out to be "psychoboss". I did that for a year and was headhunted into the spot I'm in now which has been VERY good to me. Working "beneath" my level has never been an issue or problem in finding something else and while I was doing it, I just did my best to do the job they were paying me for.
Tess