So I started posting on this site with a dilemna I had. I didn't know whether or not I should take a promotion at a job that meant absolutely nothing to me. I thought about it, then some more, then some more after that, and ultimately I turned it down as of this past Sunday. Why? Because at the end of the day I just couldn't sell out over another 1.75 an hour and a future at a company that means nothing to me.
It's one thing to have a crappy job. It's another to have a crappy career. That just feels so permanent, and I couldn't have that. Maybe it's me-I'm sure I have commitment issues across the board. But, the thought of being at the same stupid meaningless job a year from now, two, five...it just kills me. I have dreams and goals, and I'm going to try like hell to reach them, and if I fail then I fail, but with 8 days before my 24th birthday I'm just too young to start settling for less.
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But taking that promotion doesn't mean anything. I still don't understand why you feel like taking that promotion means you have to stay there. It wasn't like you were going to get a salary or any benefits, or any other advantages that are hallmarks of a career position. It still would've paid hourly and you still could've only worked three or four days a week if you wanted. And as we've seen, it's not like the "training" period really even lasts that long. And it's a chance to put management experience on your resume, and no future employer will ever know how stupid it actually is.
There was an emotional investment that I just wasn't willing to pay.
And, taking the commitment when I knew I wasn't going to stay for any long period of time felt wrong to me. Now I'm not going to just run out the door for the first job I see because I'm dissatified, but I'm not going to become a bigger cog in the machine, either. It's all about balance.
I think that some career is better than no career. I dunno. I don't think you can place enough value on job security. I say this as someone who will be decidedly on the job market at next month's career fair.
I'm still waiting on that "Dare to be Great" situation. Even if I never get the career I want, one of these days I gotta happen upon something better than the a boring numbers job that drives most people completely insane within the first three months. I got the time.
Law of averages, really...
I guess I'm wrestling on both sides of this. On the one hand, there's definitely a need in all of us to make sure our lives are both true to ourselves and approaching something we want to be; on the other hand, there's always a need for cash, right?
I like to think I've made a compromise I can live with; I can't survive alone on writing right now, so I trained myself to be an arts manager, which provides a decent living.
Maybe that's the trick, I guess--I mean, that's what we go to college for, right? To learn skills that will make us marketable in a career path of our choosing.
Then again, maybe the whole point of this blog is that the rules we were taught no longer apply.
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