TL;DR - About 2 months ago I brought up with my manager that I was interested in changing roles, but found out a coworker had just put in their notice. Asked about potential for promotion since I was being asked to pick up a lot of his work and was denied. So I started applying to other companies and have an upcoming interview. Now manager wants to revisit our promotion conversation.
I've been at my current job for almost 2 years. I knew a couple of people there from a previous job and they knew I wasn't happy with some of the things at my old job and advocated really hard for me with this current position. There are things I really like about my job, I've built a lot of equity with people within the organization including senior managers in other departments. I have a great work/life balance. But I've been frustrated with some of the other culture aspects. There's been a lot of turnover; within our own department and the organization as a whole including reorganization and top executives leaving. The company isn't doing well financially this year and as budgets are getting built there's always talk about cutting spending including letting people go. This can really kill morale and might be adding to some of my current feelings of frustration.
About a month ago a new position within my department, but reporting to a different manager, opened up and I decided to sit down with my manager and see what she thought about me applying to that position. I didn't know it at the time, but she notified me that a coworker had just given his 2 weeks notice and that she would really need me to stay in my position to help support her and a newer team member in their absence. I took that as an opportunity instead to talk about potentially getting a promotion, the coworker leaving was one level above me but not management, and that the void created by him leaving would mean that I would need to take on a lot of his work. She basically told me she didn't see that in store for me and that they were looking to find a backfill for him that was at a higher level to resume his work.
So I walked away from this conversation thinking "Ok, well you got your answer" and started aggressively applying to positions that interested me on LinkedIn. My thought process being, I don't see a path to career growth here and what I thought was a blatant response from management that they don't view me as having the skills they need and I'm not going to receiving any coaching or training to get me there. We have a very convoluted management structure, I technically have 3 bosses and find it difficult to "manage up" to all 3 of them. I've always felt like they don't value my work nearly as much as the other coworker and he was always their person to lean on. I felt more or less like they selfishly just needed me there to keep the wheels moving now that the team was down a man but that I would go right back to feeling frustrated as soon as a backfill was found.
My job search has been going fairly well. I've scored 3 phone interviews at companies I would be happy to work for and in roles that are slightly different than what I do now and I feel would provide me a path to grow my skillset and keep me engaged and learning new things. But they would all be basically lateral positions in pay and job title as what I have now. I'm already pretty maxed out in the position I'm in and the next steps for me would be moving into a management position, which I realize isn't going to happen at a new company without previous management experience.
One of these jobs is moving really quickly. I've had 2 phone interviews in the last 2 weeks and they scheduled an in-person interview for Monday.
On Friday after work a few people were walking to a nearby bar for happy hour and my manager and I happened to walk out together. As we were walking down the street she starts complimenting me on how hard I've been working since my coworker left and that we should grab coffee or lunch next week and revisit our conversation about promotion/finding another role that interest me. I was a little in shock but wish I had said let's just have this conversation now! It was very vague, and nothing is certain but now I don't know what to think.
I am still going to go on Monday for the interview, but I'm starting to think I'd prefer an internal promotion over something new at the moment. I don't want to look like a job-hopper with short tenures at multiple companies and like I mentioned before I'm pretty much maxed out in my current role. It would likely require 1-2 years at a new company to rebuild the equity I've gained here. I also don't want to get strung along at a company that doesn't show a lot of opportunity for career growth and burn a bridge with a company it sounds like I would enjoy working for in the future. I also worry that I have a "grass is greener" mentality and feel like I should just stick with the devil I know.
I guess I just really needed to vent this, but if anyone has any advice or has been in a similar situation I'd love to hear how you handled it or how should handle this.
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