#career driven

We’ve all heard the motivational speeches of starting. How starting is the biggest hurdle in your path. Personally, I call bullshit. Starting, while it is difficult, it’s not the most difficult. Most of the time, we’ve already started something. Whether it be the first step towards being a published author or reserving a business name for your future company. Oftentimes, we forget that we…

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Tonight in class was inspiring. It’s nice to have other sounding boards to give/receive feedback from. Balancing life, career, and school work isn’t easy and I think that for people who aren’t juggling these three very specific things, it’s harder for me to relate to them. It’s such a weird phenomena being in school and sort of feeling like less of an adult but not in a negative way. Maybe this…

My career is completely rocking the fucking house lately. To recap:

- Switched mentors from miss bitchypants to miss rockstar

- Got promoted, 15% raise, holy fucking shit

- Starting a new role in October

- Which means I NO LONGER WILL REPORT TO/BE CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH MY DOOFUS BOSS

- also I DON’T HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE TAX PROJECT ANYMORE

- SERIOUSLY GLORY FUCKING HALLELUJAH TO THOSE PREVIOUS TWO OH MY GOD

- By sheer coincidence, my new boss is also my new mentor

- My new team rocks my socks

- Seriously, new boss is ‘afraid’ of backlash because she says she got the three best people on the larger team

- I’m now functionally a PEER to miss bitchypants. She still outranks me, but only by 1 level as of my promo; the jobs we’ll be doing will be on the same level of skill/expectation, which I’ve achieved in like 4 years and she has nearly 20 years here. BOOM. (I know this sounds petty but she’s a rude, unprofessional, nasty pain in the ass and it’s honestly been baffling to me that she has been here this long without being fired and I’m super proud that I’ve achieved more in a shorter time than her.)

- My boss’ boss is sending me (and some other peeps) to a conference in November. This is the first time I’ve ever been ASSIGNED to go to a conference. I’ve been to some before, but I had to prove my case to go. Not that that is completely terrible, but it’s cool to be told “hey, you should go do this professional thing because we want to invest in your career.” BAD.ASS.

I am seriously SO.DAMN.EXCITED. about the direction my career is going now. This past year has been a little tough - trying to get promoted, not feeling super confident about it and worrying like crazy, continually being frustrated beyond belief with the tax project morons, disappointed with a shitty and useless mentor, embarrassed with my boss and bitchypants reflecting so much unprofessionalism and general ineffectiveness on the whole team and not being able to do anything about it... and just generally feeling like I was tired of the same old shit and ready to do something different (not career change, but more challenging similar things). But at the same time being terrified of job searching, not knowing exactly what I would look for or how much of a gamble it would be to change. All this shit is uniting perfectly. Fantastic new team. Interesting new work. Offloading bullshit nonsense work. Distancing from unprofessional people I don’t respect. Being chosen for this role above people who have already been at the level I’ve just been promoted to because I’ve proven myself more capable. Being recognized for my skills, composure, and professionalism. Getting to grow.