Is this what a job is ... ?

Dolby said:
Go look at how active I was 6 months back to recently .... I hardly have to open Internet :/

Anyway - I'm getting to the point where I give less of a **** than I used to. My sanity comes first
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The part in bold is the most important.
Everybody has a breaking point and believe me if you don't recognise your own and just try to tough it out.
Well the consequences are not good. You will never be the same again.
Best speak to management asap and it they do not listen then start looking for another job.

As you said ''My sanity comes first".
Remember that.
 
cerebus said:
you can find different work
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I like that idea. If your work environment is that unhappy. Move on. I dont mind taking kark.... if I am paid sufficiently for it. If I am not, I pack my bags and move onto better pastures.
 
Moved to Android, worked turned sour...I sense a pattern. :p

ghoti said:
I like that idea. If your work environment is that unhappy. Move on. I dont mind taking kark.... if I am paid sufficiently for it. If I am not, I pack my bags and move onto better pastures.
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That really.
 
I was in a similar position when I first moved to the UK. Landed a great job, but was literally doing the work of 3 people. For a number of reasons, I really wanted to make an impression in that job, so I started pullng 12-14hr days of pure focus and intense concentration. Within 6months I got promoted and given my own team to spread the work load. Sadly, I then got so bored with spending my days sitting in planning meetings and management pow wows that I left after a few short years, BUT, having shown commitment and dedication to the task and getting the job done, I was rewarded. Yes, your sanity is a priority, but your bosses are going to be a lot more flexible and accomodating when you tell them you need help, if you’ve shown them that you are, without possibility of reproach, making your task completion a priority.

I struggle with the concept of rigid 9-5 working hours. If I want flexibility from my managers, I need to show them that I am flexible for them/the company too. Particularly in commercially driven companies (which yours is), they want to know that you are as invested in their profit margins as they are.


Good luck, hope you find a happy medium!
 
undesign said:
Moved to Android, worked turned sour...I sense a pattern. :p
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Don't start here ;)

But aren't you chuffed I'm out the Apple club? :P

I am moving on ... and my managers do know. They've put a few measures in place to help me (I have an assistant), but it's not enough and I'm getting sick of complaining to them. I was just worried that my friend was right and all jobs are like this ... meaning I get to a worse situation
 
mooks said:
Within 6months I got promoted and given my own team to spread the work load
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... that's the other aspect - 5 years and no promotion. Apart from the assistant, I feel I'm stagnating here which is probably also getting me down. Argh
 
Dolby said:
... that's the other aspect - 5 years and no promotion. Apart from the assistant, I feel I'm stagnating here which is probably also getting me down. Argh
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Have you spoken to your management?

Not everyone wants to be promoted and its hard for them to gauge this.

Also if your working 8-5 only how would they pick up that you are overloaded with work?

If your company does KPI's or similar thats when you need to speak up and tell them you want to go further with your career.

If you feel your overloaded have a chat with management.

If they ignore you after that its their fault and I suggest moving on, but if you just keep quiet and expect things to just happen then its your own fault.
 
AS I said, I have made a huge stink about the fact I'm overloaded ... I've stormed out and we've had meetings on it. Things have been put in place and certain responsibilities have been taken away. But it's not enough and I feel at the speed they're going, I'm going to burn out ...

Hence I'm looking elsewhere
 
Dolby said:
AS I said, I have made a huge stink about the fact I'm overloaded ... I've stormed out and we've had meetings on it. Things have been put in place and certain responsibilities have been taken away. But it's not enough and I feel at the speed they're going, I'm going to burn out ...

Hence I'm looking elsewhere
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It sounds like they are at least trying, things do sometimes move slowly.

But looking at your other options is never a bad idea, everyone has their own idea of what they want from a job and if your current role no longer fits that then there is nothing wrong with moving on.

There is no point in being miserable when you can do something about it.
 
sand_man said:
Sounds pretty balanced to me. 5 years in you've you've been pushed hard for 6 months out of 60... I'd take that...
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+1.

Job pressure is frequently cyclical with projects and such. If you can't take being pushed a bit when the workload builds up, then you aren't much of a worker. If however it's more that you can't see any way out of this in the job from now until ever, it might be a different story.

Basically it sounds like you've had it with this company and job; the well has become poisoned. When that happens you need to get out asap.
 
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