Changing roles? No I'm not.
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luckycanuckMeetings, letters, sitting in the chamber watching the transport minister tapdance, two length of the field tries playing touch rugby this morning (still in the cold though, COME ON! It's late October!) and a work colleague telling me he's not taking the job he applied for.
He had applied for a job that would be a step up and a pay rise, but would have required him to move to Tasmania. He didn't want to move his wife and kids or to live away from them for half the year, so that was it. He could have done the job (in fact he had done it in the past) and he would almost certainly be better at the nuts and bolts of it than the guy they hired, but the job meant living in Hobart and he wouldn't have been good at that.
So he's staying in his current position, and so am I. If he had left there was the prospect that I would move into his job. I've already been doing parts of it. Writing briefs, working out policy on legislation, I've gone into meetings when he couldn't, I've taken on parts of his job when he couldn't make it, I've done parts of his job, but it would have been a steep learning curve to move into it for real. We've got a pretty good office in terms of knowledge and being an adviser is easy in some ways because my colleagues know so much.
I like doing parts of his job. I don't get paid any more for taking on the bits that I do, but it's good experience and it gives me a sense of purpose. From time to time I find myself not knowing exactly what my role is, so when it comes into focus it can be busy but also engaging.
It's good feeling like there are prospects. I have my current job, but there is also my demographic project. I've thought about putting out feelers to some HR firms to see if there are opportunities in this field so that I can learn a bit more in a practical sense.
Last year I was asked if I wanted to apply for an adviser role in another office. It would have been a pay rise and more certainty in what my role was, but it also would have meant moving to Shepparton in Victoria. Shepparton may be a fine town. I've never been there, but I don't know anyone there and I think I would be very isolated. It would take a pretty sweet offer to get me to move somewhere other than Canberra or Sydney. It's not that I wouldn't ever move to Melbourne or Brisbane or Perth or a small town, but the isolation and upheavel would factor into my decision.
Still, I reckon it's a feather in my cap to be asked to apply.
TW: Core - 100 medicine ball crunch throws, 2 ab centuries, 100 twists left, 100 twists right
He had applied for a job that would be a step up and a pay rise, but would have required him to move to Tasmania. He didn't want to move his wife and kids or to live away from them for half the year, so that was it. He could have done the job (in fact he had done it in the past) and he would almost certainly be better at the nuts and bolts of it than the guy they hired, but the job meant living in Hobart and he wouldn't have been good at that.
So he's staying in his current position, and so am I. If he had left there was the prospect that I would move into his job. I've already been doing parts of it. Writing briefs, working out policy on legislation, I've gone into meetings when he couldn't, I've taken on parts of his job when he couldn't make it, I've done parts of his job, but it would have been a steep learning curve to move into it for real. We've got a pretty good office in terms of knowledge and being an adviser is easy in some ways because my colleagues know so much.
I like doing parts of his job. I don't get paid any more for taking on the bits that I do, but it's good experience and it gives me a sense of purpose. From time to time I find myself not knowing exactly what my role is, so when it comes into focus it can be busy but also engaging.
It's good feeling like there are prospects. I have my current job, but there is also my demographic project. I've thought about putting out feelers to some HR firms to see if there are opportunities in this field so that I can learn a bit more in a practical sense.
Last year I was asked if I wanted to apply for an adviser role in another office. It would have been a pay rise and more certainty in what my role was, but it also would have meant moving to Shepparton in Victoria. Shepparton may be a fine town. I've never been there, but I don't know anyone there and I think I would be very isolated. It would take a pretty sweet offer to get me to move somewhere other than Canberra or Sydney. It's not that I wouldn't ever move to Melbourne or Brisbane or Perth or a small town, but the isolation and upheavel would factor into my decision.
Still, I reckon it's a feather in my cap to be asked to apply.
TW: Core - 100 medicine ball crunch throws, 2 ab centuries, 100 twists left, 100 twists right
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Date: 2009-10-27 08:25 pm (UTC)I'd move to Perth or Melbourne under the right circumstances. They're both nice cities.
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Date: 2009-10-27 09:07 pm (UTC)But the point is that I'm not at all worried.
Perth I don't know. Melbourne I do like, and I would also move there under the right circumstances, but those circumstances would be tougher than to get me to move to Sydney.
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Date: 2009-10-27 09:02 pm (UTC)I had that happen to me recently - it's great for the ego!
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Date: 2009-10-27 09:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-27 09:09 pm (UTC)