I love my job. I love that I am able to use the experiences and knowledge that I have gained in my past employment. I love that I am able to travel and meet new people, even gaining more experience. I love that I am able to see the initial problems of the client and help formulate a solution … eventhough I will not be part of the delivery of that solution. I love that I am still continuing to enrich what I now know and learn about new markets as well. I love that I people see me as someone who can help them. I love my job.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not claiming to be the best and the only person who can do what I do. But for the organisation, I am basically ‘it’ — the person who formulates an overall solution that we put forward in a proposal, the person who puts together the proposal and co-ordinate when we need to show what we have proposed. Well, at least that is what I thought my job entails.
It hasn’t been like that of late.
Nowadays, I am left in the dark of any developments with the proposals I helped put together. I am having to sit back and build Powerpoint presentations that I will never get to present. I set-up teleconference bridges and online meeting invitations of meetings that I never get to moderate, with the responsibility, post-meeting, to gather the minutes and distribute it to everyone else. When a prospect, who has read and assessed our proposal that I helped complete and conceptualise, is suddenly interested in what we have dangled as bait, it would be somebody else who would stand before them for a flavour of the goods.
It’s frustrating. It’s annoying. I just want to grab a lock-full of hair and bang the head against the wall.
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I hope no one else is taking the credit for the work that you have been doing.
Darn office politics!
i hope it won’t stay that way for long..
Office policticking … I hate that though I am not in the working world yet. But in school it’s like that too.
I just hope that they will not take credit of your work though.
*hugs*
damn, office politics are the worst. I hope that you get to talk to your superiors about what’s happening and I hope you get the matter cleared up.
How’s the apartment hunting going? Keep courage, girl, you’ll get through all these obstacles!
arrgh! i hate that.. and i was just at almost the same case, now you remind me.. kainis no.
that’s the type of job i do. i dont love it. i dont hate it either.
being a consultant, its not my job to take credit for anything.
maybe its because of age, or the state in life that i sometimes am left to becoming important yet invisible…but days like the 15th and the 30th are the ones that matter.
this too shall pass. Kobe Bryant doesnt stay in the bench for long. I mean stars like you will be back to be noticed.
Ziz…
I’m sorry I’ve been out of touch. Still don’t have dsl at home. I just read about you and P, and if it’s any consolation…I’m sorry for the loss of your happiness. Your source of happiness to be exact. But sometimes..we just have to let things happen. if you need to vent (if you are still not talked out), i’m here.
If you need a good locket of hair, I hear Britney Spears got rid of hers. Only costs a million on eBay but (plus side) it also comes with used lipstick and the drink she left behind. No word on location of her brain, tho.
Keep your chin up. Perserverence brings long-term results.