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Hey! Same boat. I talked literally about this with 2 people this morning.
How much do you enjoy your work today and in what areas do you want to grow?
Have you explored opportunities within your current world for it and do you find/know how to find it?
If yes:
Are you willing and able to do what it takes for growth ?
Is there any price you'd be paying to accommodate that - and are you ok with it?
If no:
Do you see opportunities outside ?
If yes, go for it.
If no, keep your current job for stability and keep looking.
It’s sort of like a gas tank the “happy fuel” is only so much and usually dries up at some point on projects. I’m getting the feeling one of my from grades from undergrad will permanently bar me the license needed to try and climb the ladder at my firm. I want to do other work but they’ve hired me for specific projects which are slowing down in the pipeline because most of it is or has been done. So I feel your no answer because I’ve sacrificed a lot with the work I’ve done and it doesn’t seem like enough. So it’s eating away at my alliance for my firm.
Any benefits worth staying longer for? If not, go ahead and start the job search.
I mean I could spend another 5 years doing 12-15 hour work until I’m “up for promotion”. After 6 year my bill rate will only increase by 30 dollars at most. I’m at a 30 bill rate now.
When you find a better offer. Never stop looking for a better offer. You cannot just decide to leave and leave the next day. In this economy it could be months before you get any options at all.
So start looking , even if you are only 10% sure about leaving
That’s not good…I’m hovering around 40% want to leave. Yes I got out of college not to long ago but I had many types of jobs I could of been qualified for. I just feel like for the expectations that have been placed on me and feedback I’m getting isn’t sitting right with me. Especially for the comp I’ve gotten. I do the work but it seems not appreciated… I don’t expect a lot either…
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I would say don’t wait for it to get obvious to leave. Always keep interviewing. You never know what’s out there that’s worth leaving
Thank you for that I have been looking. I was also very technical in college in hopes I’d get that with this job (I didn’t). The job is more paperwork focused than technical and yes I feel that’s an obvious reason to want to move…
Based on your comments you need to be looking for a new job. When you already have one foot in and one foot out, it's time to go all in on job search.
So we use personal phones for business. Something that’s rubbing me the wrong way is my mentor will call me off the books about a vague mistake that I made. I don’t like being told I’m “vaguely fucking up” or “somehow it’s minor” so I told you off the books. So it feel like I’m crashing and burning and I have to resort to kissing up. I told them in my interview I just want to put in the work nothing else. About 60 hours of them as well and it seems to never get me far.
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I might flip the question: why should you stay at your current job? That's always the question because at any given time there may be a better opportunity out there if you put in the work to find it.
I’ll admit some more. I work at a large engineering firm. I am of color and a specialized scientist. Me and my mentor are the only of our kind in our group. I feel a “slight need” to set out and become the sitting scientist much like my senior pm is. But there’s a lot more hunger eager deserving people in line for that position (this will take Atleast 10 years). My firm is trenched so they don’t look for new business. Which is the reason why everyone in the firm spends a max 15 years in engineering/science then just pivots to business or c-suite roles. So yes I set out to be technical and make decisions to change things in an analytical way not be a body in a slot tbh.
Basically bad managed projects and bad staffing.
Work slows and speeds up. Sometimes 12/15 hour a day work. Sometimes no work. I was hired for specific projects yet I have to constant ask for work and get flung work randomly. I.e. pipeline isn’t consistent.
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