So, to start off, it hasn’t fully sunken in yet.
I took my current role about a year and a half ago for the same reasons I’m leaving this one. My work environment is NOT a good one.
Here’s a little context:
About (almost) five years ago I was desperately looking for a job. With no career goals or direction in mind, I was open to suggestion. So one day, a friend of mine says “Hey, apply where I work. There’s a sign on bonus that I get if you get hired, and you stick around, I’ll split it with you!” (He never did, but that’s another story)
So I applied. The job was an entry level position at a soap factory. So, inspecting and packing various brands of bars of soap for shipping to different companies. WHAT. A. SUCK.
The packing lines were unofficially designated for old ladies, and working foreigners, as they’re the only ones who would do the work day in/day out without having an existential crisis about it. That being said, most of the foreigners at my previous place of employment were Nepalese immigrants who were some of the hardest working, funniest, most kind people that I’ve ever worked with. It wasn’t long before I was dating a Nepali girl and being showered with gifts to encourage me to get married and have babies with her. (Again, another different story)
Not too long after I started working the packing lines, I was reassigned to a line lead position. Rather than packing, I was assigning workers to their roles, documenting production, loss, scrap, rework, taking QA samples, and coordinating with management and other line leads to optimize productivity. It wasn’t exactly the kind of role I wanted, but I did it with gusto. Everyone was super nice and supportive.
Then the company had a mass exodus and fired half the maintenance staff (for good reason, probably). I saw an opening and went for it. “I want to do manual work, I like handyman type stuff, I’m intuitive, and I think I’d be a good fit. Start me off with no substantial raise, and pay me in experience for the first year and I’ll never make you regret it”
They went for it. And BOY, I went from no direction in life to suddenly having a CAREER PATH. I love industrial maintenance. I love mechanical work, engineering, fabrication. I love it. I spent about 4 years THRIVING in that role before our plant manager had a baby, moved on, and was replaced with a complete tyrant. The micromanaging, no people skills having, “just work faster” mentality type. I didn’t make it another two months.
Enter my current job. It’s at a machine shop. I’ve been soaking up all the knowledge I can about maintenance and fabrication, so machining was something that interested me greatly, and I wanted to move in that direction. Manual machining to be exact.
My job was advertised as a “mechanical assembly technician” and required mechanical skills, schematic and print reading, and general skills you would acquire in my field. I wasn’t happy where I was, so I took the leap (for a decent pay raise).
Boy, was I wrong. I’m back on the packing lines. Except, this time instead of soap, it’s mechanical component seals. Putting labels on boxes, cleaning parts, assembling seals, boxing them up for shipping. On the surface it looks more involved than soap packing, but every one of my coworkers is completely unskilled in anything else. They’ve all been doing the same menial job for 15+ years and none of them are happy.
My boss is... for lack of a better word... a cunt. He’s 40, he’s been here in assembly for 20 years, it’s the only job he’s ever had. He’s here early every day, he stays late every day. His whole life is working in this department and he expects the same of his underlings. He’s pissy, he has a temper, and he wants EVERYTHING to go through him. He gives a whole new level to the term “micromanage”.
My skills are not valuable here. If he doesn’t know how to do something, “we don’t do that” because he can’t oversee it and control it. My future is in front of me. You either work in assembly for 20 years or you wash out.
I gave it a year and a half. I started DREADING going to work. I started missing time (mostly because of childcare/covid stuff) I’m not happy.
This morning I called out of work, and the plant director called my phone at 3pm and I wrote and email and just spilled my guts. “I’ve been looking for jobs, I know my performance has been shitty lately, but all in all I can’t work in assembly anymore. I’m sorry for the inconvenience. The company is alright by my book, but I didn’t come forward because everything I do or say to the company has to go through my boss, and he’s the problem.”
I have an interview Monday. I’ve been interviewing for a couple weeks now. I don’t have much trouble finding things, but the anxiety is there all the same.
Thank you all for letting me vent. Thanks to those who read it.
TL/DR; Do what makes you happy, if you’re not doing that, drop what you’re doing, and make the change. Life goes on. I have a kid, a family, bills, and I am NOT financially secure. I have nothing lined up, but today I finally broke. Be happy.
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