Sorry to hear about your job woes. As my grand dad used to say find a job your happy with and stick with it. Course that was in the days of "take care of the company and they'll take care of you". Which is long gone for the most part. Lots of people get on the hook because of retirement plans, and rightfully so. Not many places actually have them any more. Most places have a 401K plan that the company may or may not contribute partially too but that is all there is. So if you work for a place that does have a paid retirement and free or partially free medical care in retirement it is hard to quit..
Its not like that in the division I'm in, couple of us did some research and found that we are behind several other banks. But hey, they seem more worried about promoting those with nasal discoloration, read brown nosers, who are very rarely qualified to do much more than ask if you want fries with that.
Yup big companies and politics. That's I don't work for one. Ever think about taking your skill set and shifting it in a different direction? I'll guess you in accounting of some kind. Maybe forensic accounting would be a fun change.
as the old saying goes, "It's not what you know it's who you know" holds true atleast somewhat in every work place..
Anymore it helps sometimes to just send your resume to places.. Never know when someone may have just quit or got fired. It may just end up in the trash but at worst it cost you a stamp..
Not quite accounting, I'm more on the quality and audit side with some research thrown in there. I am not adverse to going in another direction and applying the skills and knowledge that I have acquired through the years to something new and interesting. One thing I always mention in an interview is that I want to be challenged, as that is the only way to grow and learn new skills and acquire new knowledge. What I do now, the best challenge they can offer me is volume of work and that is it. Then they want to wonder why I am bored with it and wont listen when I tell them that this is too easy for me and it is just below what I am capable of.
Good luck with your job search! If you've ever entertained the thought of an entirely new/different/groovy occupation, I think now would be the time to seriously consider it, especially if you don't yet have little ones to worry about. My husband is in the same boat, but feels locked in due to financial complications specifically with our kids. I went to grad school and got my M.S. degree...just to be unhappy with what I briefly ended up doing. I've now been doing work (for the past 7 years) that really doesn't pertain to my degree at all (though the experience helped me immensely), and am much happier doing it. Sometimes you just gotta take a chance, I guess.
I do have a wife and a step-daughter, so I do have to take them into heavy consideration. So that means I can't do anything too wild and crazy. But I would be happy with finding something new that I can at least enjoy a little with a company that actually wants to see its employees succeed. Oh yeah, and of course make $$$! Gotta support the mini somehow!!! Baby needs a few things.
Are you talking QA and Audit of the internal systems/software development? Is so I would think that your skill set would transfer over to several of the big local IT shops. You can send me your resume as well and I can look around here (just down the road from Easton on Morse road) and I have a friend who is a recruiter for Cardinal.
Sadly I never made it to the IT side of QA and Audit, though all stuff I can easily and quickly learn. Sadly when they look at my resume, that isn't a skill that can really be indicated on a resume. But I'll happily send a copy your way as well. Never know what will happen. Worse thing they can do is say no, so it's always worth a shot.
I'm sure this is going to come off as me sounding like a d!ck, but this is like the second time you have posted something about hating your job. You are vague in what it is you do and what you want to do, which makes it hard for people to try and figure out if they can help you. I just looked at our external facing website and there are 50 + jobs posted for here in the Columbus area, but I have no idea if any of them are remotely related to what you do/are looking to do.
Sorry. I currently do quality and federal compliance for flood insurance. Which includes, but is not limited to creating and enforcing internal controls to ensure compliance to federal regulations, internal quality audits, external vendor quality audits, a wee bit of customer interaction for escalated issues and occasional contact with insurance companies and agents to obtain and verify information, root cause analysis, facilitate the dispute process for borrowers wishing to remove flood insurance from their loans and then the occasional special project. And sometimes a little research is required to determine the cause of various instances and provide feedback on how to correct the issue at hand. And I have a fancy sounding title.
LOL, not so much. I mean I like it when the wife wears the bras and panties, but beyond that, it's not something I know much about! Well other than some of those soaps and candles make me sneeze.
Happen to know how to weld, or lay vinyl, spray paint. Bunch of sign companies up there and they need welders and the such, and most are not certified. Pay range is all over the place though but some also get plenty of OT to help the pay check..
I wonder how many of us really do what we went to college thinking we wanted to. I know I don't. This web stuff I do is a far cry from the Marine Ichthyology I studied.
Marine Ichthyology! Cool! My kiddo would love to talk your ear off... I studied Nutrition in grad school (though my degree is in Animal Biology). I had this fantasy that I would be a zoo nutritionist...and then I learned that there were a total of maybe 2 full-time zoo nutritionists in the country. And then I also learned that I have an aversion to working with most human nutritionists (no offense to any nutrition people out there...just personal experience). After working with species who can't directly communicate with you I suppose you just develop a level of common sense that you don't develop working with people. Now I process cultures and other clinical specimens in a diagnostic lab. Luckily you learn all sorts of random biochemical pathways studying nutrition so I still can apply all that knowledge I stuffed in my brain...
Any way you can move internally? You've been there for quite a while, so if imagine you know of some managers that are great and that you'd like to work with/for? I also work for a bank, although not in compliance, but I do know that risk and compliance people are highly sought after right now across the industry. I do a lot of recduiting/on boarding of recent grads, and the one thing I tell all of them is that it's not necessarily the job, but the people. The whole find what you love to do, and do that is worthless if it's with a bad bunch of people. I'd argue that it's most important to find a great group of people and work with them, then it doesn't really matter what you're doing.