And My Purpose Here Is What Exactly?
That dear friends' is the million dollar question that has been on my mind lately. It has only become even more exacerbated by recent events. You see lately I have been increasingly bored and unsatisfied in my job. My boss told me two months ago at my employee evaluation that I would be moving in a more creative direction with my position. I was very excited about this and have been patiently waiting for these changes.
Fast forward to last Friday, when it was announced that the manager of my department (she's above me but below my boss) is leaving the company. I was very sad when I heard this as I like our web manager, but at the same time saw this as a golden opportunity for my own advancement. The current manager does basically three jobs rolled into one, and given the changing circumstances in both my department and the company now is the time to do some restructuring.
Well after having a periphery talk with my boss (I hedged the issue not wanting to seem too eager) it appears that management is going to just condense as much of the web manager's job into the existing department members and outsource the rest. Included with this is outsourcing of individual websites for certain products, like our yearly meetings. There is a possibility that they would do some of the design in-house but most of it would be outsourced thus freeing the web department to do other things.
What other things I want to know! Most of my job is boring, mundane edits and corrections to pages. Most page creation consists of me using existing templates. If we outsource all of our minor sites what exactly will I be designing?! Why tell me I am going to be doing more web design then outsource all of my potential future projects!?! I am so angry and frustrated I could cry.
I work for a great company over all and I have mad benefits but in the year and a half I have been here I am becoming increasingly more burned out and unsatisfied. I am doing more grunt work than creative work and it feels like I am just spinning my wheals. What I want to know is what is this great, mysterious master plan whose agenda seems to keep changing and what am I here to do exactly?!
I have no plans to quit anytime soon, but I am seriously going to have to start considering other options. I am relying on my company to foot the bill for my education, but the sheer boredom and dread of my current job situation is definitely an obstacle. Ugh!
I need to try and calm down and make a plan. It looks like because nobody is talking about it I am going to have to go out on a limb and be a little vocal. We seem to be proceeding without much of a plan and I and other members of the department (and the company) are concerned about what is going to happen once the current web manager leaves. The key is how to say things without appearing to have overstepped my boundaries or seeming greedy, which I'm not. I'm just very, very concerned...
