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I got a freaking promotion yesterday!!!!
Last night I (mini) celebrated my third career promotion with some fox whiskey, ice cream and some tasty charcuterie. I& #39;m so freaking happy and my wags have carried on over into today.
A thread on why this is a huge deal for me.
Last night I (mini) celebrated my third career promotion with some fox whiskey, ice cream and some tasty charcuterie. I& #39;m so freaking happy and my wags have carried on over into today.
A thread on why this is a huge deal for me.
Ok here goes. My career has been pretty terrible on the whole. I started my dream job in 2003 when I accepted an offer to do CPU design for Intel. Ever since I was a kit I wanted to make the "brains of the computer" but Intel turned out being the worst job I& #39;ve ever had.
When I finally left 10 years later I had been promoted once (which happened in the first year) and was a grade 5 the equivalent of a college grad with a masters degree and no years of experience. I had been (unfairly) put on performance plans and worked my way off of them.
I was at the point where if my boss said "we need to talk" I assumed I was going to get fired or something bad was going to happen. I was on edge all the time. I worked and worked and worked to prove myself but it always fell on deaf ears. My dream job was a nightmare.
Intel left me broken. My confidence in myself was shattered. I had been rated as outstanding 3 years in a row but never got promoted because it always went to someone else who deserved it more. Dire helped me get the courage to quit and I eventually went to AMD.
AMD was better, I got promo& #39;ed in the 1-2 year time frame but because that lab was made up of folks from the Intel lab I came from I was still fighting the stigmas from my previous job. Still broken, I fought for scraps and worked myself to the bone for no reward.
I left the semiconductor industry and took a job at Philips. This was the best decision for me. I had no business being in the medical device industry but my boss saw something in me and I really liked him. I took the job because of him. This changed everything.
I crushed it. I was giving presentations to the C level staff on risk assessments, I was leading my team and helping out others across the division. I was finally getting the recognition I craved and deserved for my hard work.
I regained my lost confidence knowing I wasn& #39;t the issue. It felt so freakin good. Then my boss quit and the department spiraled. I got a call to interview at my current job. I got an offer and I said goodbye to the wonderful people I was working with. It was hard to leave
Now, < 2 years later I am a stones throw away from a life goal of making principal. I will be leading a team. I have the ear and trust of the CTO and the other executive staff. I no longer fear the phrase "got a second to chat" from my boss. I am killing it.
The point of this? I was held back and held down my entire career, put on performance plans and looked down upon by my peers. Even with all that I was able to pull myself out of it, but it took change and it took work and not the "more hours at my desk" type of work.