Happy anniversary! :)
Nov. 16th, 2010 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculusYes, today is the first anniversary of my current job! \o/
Despite occasional aggravations, I'm still enjoying myself although I would definitely like to be a little less busy most of the time. I've had my current boss for about 6 months now and she's a vast improvement on the previous one, pretty much letting me get on and do my thing but happy to chew stuff over and/or backing me up when necessary.
The only downside is that we're facing partial reorganisation next year (the bane of local government!), where I stand a chance of losing 2 members of staff from a permanent complement of 6 (+ 1 agency worker, also not likely to stay much beyond January). Of course we're being told the workload heading our way will also reduce but somehow I doubt it's going to drop by over a third!
Taking this job was definitely the right decision, although the words 'and what's your career plan?' from my boss earlier this week kind of stymied me a little. I certainly can't see myself being in this job in 10 years time, but I also can't see myself being in hers! I'm a little more interested in academia, as I've always enjoyed running training, but the money is lousy. However, given the government keeps moving the retirement age back, I may never get to not be working regardless... ;)
Despite occasional aggravations, I'm still enjoying myself although I would definitely like to be a little less busy most of the time. I've had my current boss for about 6 months now and she's a vast improvement on the previous one, pretty much letting me get on and do my thing but happy to chew stuff over and/or backing me up when necessary.
The only downside is that we're facing partial reorganisation next year (the bane of local government!), where I stand a chance of losing 2 members of staff from a permanent complement of 6 (+ 1 agency worker, also not likely to stay much beyond January). Of course we're being told the workload heading our way will also reduce but somehow I doubt it's going to drop by over a third!
Taking this job was definitely the right decision, although the words 'and what's your career plan?' from my boss earlier this week kind of stymied me a little. I certainly can't see myself being in this job in 10 years time, but I also can't see myself being in hers! I'm a little more interested in academia, as I've always enjoyed running training, but the money is lousy. However, given the government keeps moving the retirement age back, I may never get to not be working regardless... ;)
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