This morning I will find out if I get my promotion or not. If I do I will get to stay at my current company, if not I will be made redundant at the end of this month and will be looking for work from this afternoon onwards.
I am feeling very nervous right now.
An interesting thing to share on these boards, but I totally get why you did. There really is a great since of community and support here.
Whatever the outcome of the day is - I hope it works out for you. I have been in similar situations, I appreciate the stress that either outcome and the waiting for it presents.
I hope that if you get promoted it is to grow and be part of a company you like, means you get to continue working with people you enjoy, doing work you love that challenges you and keeps you engaged and learning.
If you have to leave I hope that is because you are destined for something better with a group that values you rather than making a decision about total headcount and the necessity of a specific position.
Good Luck!
Let us know the outcome.
Hang in there, Nermal!
TK
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Work sucks! Hope it all works out for you. Sometimes a bad thing is what gives a kick onto a better path, so even if all else fails and life gives you a kick, look for the opportunity hidden in there. Maybe a shove to get you to be your own boss, or get in with a better company.
I wish you the best of luck and hope you do good.
FH
Been there myself, Nermal! Whatever happens, take it and run with it! Best of luck!
Lilith
I have now heard about my promotion. The answer is no unfortunately. I will appeal the scores given to me in my assessments for the role but I doubt that will influence the overall outcome.
This does mean that I can now concentrate on searching for other employment.
And thank you all for you support. Looks like I am destined for different things than my current role.
Anecdote: Four years ago, I left Miami with my family for Tampa, in pursuit of my wife's career dreams; we sold a house that we owned only three years to go back to an apartment, left behind both my wife's and my own family, and left two perfectly normal jobs behind in favor of two entirely new ones...
Result: My wife's 'opportunity' turned into a bottom end staff job where she toiled nights and weekends to catch all manner of abuse from mentally disabled adolescents...I was laid off less than 5 months on the job...and our Apt. complex slowly became a suburban ghetto over the course of three years, as I spent the next two years unemployed or in temp jobs...
However... during that time, which we refer to as "Purgatory" in retrospect, our marriage survived the cracks and strain, I took advantage of Govt. programs for re-training and then earned five IT certifications as a full time student and house-husband.
An online friend of my wife later took my resume and helped me land an IT job for a state agency; we moved to Tallahassee three years ago and we've been thriving since. Our new house and property is larger than our old one in Miami and cost less, my wife is back in college full-time and - I now hold my supervisor's job, earn $40k/yr and enjoy easygoing managers and executives.
The Moral of the Story: Sometimes your better career moves will be forced on you by someone else.
I hope that you find some inspiration in what happened to me.
M
Thank you for sharing your story. Life does indeed take some interesting turns from time to time. Being made redundant is really an oppurtunity form me to re-evaluate me and my career and seek out something worthwhile and challenging.
I just got the opposite news today, as chance would have it - perhaps all the better-qualified applicants had all gone for higher-paying jobs! Luckily, I play a really cheap hobby.
Sometimes things have a funny way of working out. My first article printed in Dragon magazine was actually something I originally wrote for my own website, and just threw in as an after-thought with another query.