I caught a little bit of a where-is-my-life-going depression this evening. We've had all kinds of changes at my day job; people have been laid-off, departments have been restructured, and I report to a new boss. I wasn't too upset about it because the changes made sense. I work with data entry and inventory management within our accounting system, so it made sense that they would put me with the Materials department instead of the Contracts department where I was. New boss man seems really nice and easy-going and my day-to-day isn't going to change that much, so it's really not a problem.
But they changed my title. I was an Accounting Assistant and now I am the Materials Assistant. Again, it makes sense and nothing is really going to change. But the requirements for my job, minimum is a high school diploma though they prefer someone with a Bachelor's sort of shook me up. Then I went to Hallmark and they asked me to check in some product we'd received. It wasn't until I sat down at the computer and clicked on the Receiving Button that I realized I am still doing the same exact job I did when I was 22. The title isn't even that different.
Granted, it's for an entirely different company and the benefits/salary are much better than anything I had when I was the Merchandise Assistant at Hallmark. It did make me wonder if accounting is really something for me, though. Because I haven't really done any "real" accounting. And am I nothing more than an assistant? How do I get out of that? The whole thing just made me really question if my life is truly different from what it was 8 years ago. Shouldn't there a different type of growth?
This realignment of departments in the company will give me more opportunities for advancement, but I'm not sure in which direction exactly. Am I really in a career? If so, is it the career I really want to be in?
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