cha-ching
Tomorrow I have a review with the job. This comes at a perfect time for me because I am increasingly questioning my role in my office - is it relevant, am I doing anything, where is this going, blah blah blah. Where should I go next. School. New industry. Craiglist. Monster. Career builder. Ahhhhhh! Oh my!
The main gist (for me) of this review is to find out what some of my goals should be, in the eyes of the boss. I was thinking, "well, what are my own goals" and in all honesty, I am having a hard time coming up with realistic ones. I suppose one goal would be to have our work on par with some of the landscape starchitects - I'm not naming names for googling purposes. But, that goal is countered because I really don't think that under my boss' leadership, the firm will be there. I feel like some of the other designers in our office have the potential to take it there - but that's years away, and we don't even have a succession plan!
argh. And then of course there is the salary issue. And then my personal issues relating to salary issues. I can basically make $20,000 - $25,000 more per year doing an equivalent job, both in and out of this industry.
WOW!
But, that's not realistic here where I work b/c we're smaller and etc. And I've invested myself in the office. And I feel as if maybe I'm not the best time utilizer sometimes so I don't necessarily need to ask for that big of a raise. And, I should note, I won't be asking for that large of a jump - but I would like to try to meet somewhere in the middle, or at least get some more vacation out of the deal.
Ugh. Well. I'll try to let you know how it goes tomorrow. I'm sure things will work out fine - I mean, that's the way life goes anyway right? No matter what happens, whatever happens next will be a change, and for me (at least in my perspective) change typically equals better things.
The main gist (for me) of this review is to find out what some of my goals should be, in the eyes of the boss. I was thinking, "well, what are my own goals" and in all honesty, I am having a hard time coming up with realistic ones. I suppose one goal would be to have our work on par with some of the landscape starchitects - I'm not naming names for googling purposes. But, that goal is countered because I really don't think that under my boss' leadership, the firm will be there. I feel like some of the other designers in our office have the potential to take it there - but that's years away, and we don't even have a succession plan!
argh. And then of course there is the salary issue. And then my personal issues relating to salary issues. I can basically make $20,000 - $25,000 more per year doing an equivalent job, both in and out of this industry.
WOW!
But, that's not realistic here where I work b/c we're smaller and etc. And I've invested myself in the office. And I feel as if maybe I'm not the best time utilizer sometimes so I don't necessarily need to ask for that big of a raise. And, I should note, I won't be asking for that large of a jump - but I would like to try to meet somewhere in the middle, or at least get some more vacation out of the deal.
Ugh. Well. I'll try to let you know how it goes tomorrow. I'm sure things will work out fine - I mean, that's the way life goes anyway right? No matter what happens, whatever happens next will be a change, and for me (at least in my perspective) change typically equals better things.
1 Comments:
how'd it go? i know i'm asking half a month later, but yeah... i've been lagging on the reading of other people's private personal thoughts. ;)
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