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The Road to Vegetaria
2006-01-01 19:26:30 (UTC)

Clean slate thoughts about the job situation

Sunday January 1 2006
2:20PM EST

So, I figure I'm faced with these four choices at work:

Stay in my current position, no changes

Apply for the now vacant QA position, probably no raise,
doing what I'm sort of interested in, working with people I
don't really like so much.

Go do compliance work for voc services for a $2K raise,
working for a couple guys who I like well enough, but who
don't get much respect from their staff.

Try to work out a deal where I work my current position and
work for voc, no caseload with a raise.


Hmmmmm..... I just don't know. I don't know what to do. The
thought of staying in my current position feels so stifling
only because of my caseload. But my department can't afford
my salary without one. But I also love my department -- my
boss and her boss are awesome, it's comfortable, I know what
I'm doing... etc.

Now I'm not so sure about going to work in QA either. It is
the area I want to go into... but at this agency? With these
people? I don't think I could score a pay raise at all, I'd
be working with the girl who beat me out for this new job,
for the lady who was part of the decision making team to not
give me the job... could I handle that? Would it be worth it?

I was told objectively that the guys who run our voc
services get no respect, and that I might have trouble
working with the people who write the voc plans. But I could
totally do that work, I'd get a $2,000 a year increase and
have no caseload. Hm. I'm waivering on this one.

Working for both departments would be ideal. I could keep
the good part of my current position, get rid of my
caseload, possibly pick up just the folks who need to be
seen twice a year, and get a raise by working for voc also.
I do believe I could handle this... it's a lot of work, but
I think I could do it. But I don't know how feasible it
would be. My boss was just thinking out loud when we talked
about it, and I've been burned by her ideas when she does
that before... so I don't know.

I need to talk to my boss.




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