How do you deal with taking a job where you have less influence now? My pay was matched to my last job, but I’m considered to be in a less strategic role and based on my years of experience, this is frustrating.

I keep trying to show that I am not just an executor, but I’m treated like that and it’s hard to show my strategic potential when I’m not given seats at the tables in meetings.

Any tips on how to deal besides job searching again? I’m less than a year in.

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I was putting into a similar boat. What I found worked best in my particular situation was to let these people mess up, and then I would gently step in and offer solution to the people most likely to be receptive to it.

The main thing is to not stress about it until it actively and negatively impacts you then, when you raise the issue and provide the solution, you’re not seen as an interlope we’re trying to overstep, you’re seen as a smart person who’s coming to the table with solutions.

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I was in such a role after a layoff. 10 months of searching, and I was glad to have something to pay the bills. I dropped a level in title and was thrust into doing a role meant for 2-3 people. And the pay was 2/3 what I was making before, which was financially hard. They wanted my senior experience, but loaded me with junior work and 1/5th of an assistant. And expected me to find time to do both strategic development work all the while deciding which wine and food to serve at one of the 6 events we ran in the year (along with deciding whether to choose the wine pull or bar option at one of the 90+ sponsorships a year that we coordinated). I lasted 18 months before I found a role where I am back to more strategic work (which also has a high share of tedious detail work). I am honestly not sure if there is a solution other than leaving, but interested to hear others' thoughts.

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All of us will age one day. Even the top young guns being bravoed today will soon find them in a similar position

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As we age, we tend to peak, then plateau

You appear to be on the plateau to decline stage

The sooner we accept the reality the better for us…

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