Okey dokey, this might be a tad long-winded, but I need some career related advice.
Some of you know that I have been operating a... difficult... career situation for the past several months. I have a coworker that is barely concealing bad feelings towards me and it has caused her to behave in a pretty unprofessional manner. I had spoken with my manager about it, but my manager is seriously non-confrontational (plus, I think she's scared of my coworker) and I had just decided that I was going to have to 'wait it out' until I could find another position to move into.
Last week, however, we were notified that pending an ok by the Swedish unions, my current boss would move into a new position and my group would be moved into another manager's area. I am HELLA excited for this because this new manager is incredible. She's revolutionized her department in the past 6 months and she's pretty damn awesome.
New manager has said that she is going to take an hour with each one of us to talk about what we are doing, our backgrounds, and most importantly-- what we WANT to be doing. *Insert giddy chair dance here*
Now I have to think about what it is I want to do, which is something I had stopped considering because I was basically trapped in my current positon for at least another year. Now I have options! OPTIONS PEOPLE!!
Here is what I know:
- 1) I don't much like what I am doing now
- 2) I have no clear direction or goals with my current work (will this make 1 better?)
- 3) I'm sociable and really good at building cross-functional relationships
- 4) Working with people from different backgrounds, cultures, languages is no problem.
- 5) I get bored easily
- 6) I like to manage
- 7) Meeting/exceeding goals makes me happy
- 8) I like to find out why something has gone wrong
- 9) I'm a fixer
- 10) I don't like to work with my coworker because she takes over my projects or tells me I can't do something
- 11) I like having responsibility
How do I present all of this in a way that I'm not telling her I need a different job when, I think that's what I need, OR at the very least, I need very clear rules of what people can or should be asking me to do. My coworker thinks I am her biznatch and exist solely to do projects for her or to her specifications.
Other things to know:
- 1) I cannot be fired. No, really. Even if I bring a gun to work and try to shoot people. Can't.be.fired. (Please note, I would never do this)
- 2) My company is growing quickly
- 3) Financially, we are doing really, really well.
So! Thoughts?
I'm heading home in a few minutes, so understand if there is a delay in a response from me.
