Mesh


I'm a bit partial to Garbanzo's....stirfried with onions, chili flakes, salt pepper, and lots of mustard seeds....great snack and goes really well with beer.

bapu

Mesh


I'm a bit partial to Garbanzo's....stirfried with onions, chili flakes, salt pepper, and lots of mustard seeds....great snack and goes really well with beer.

I wonder. Does Mrs. Mesh agree (around two hours later)?

Starise


 Generally if you get that queasy feeling in your gut( Mesh I'm not referring to eating beans) when you think about doing it, this is that square peg feeling going into a round hole.If the thought of it excites you then maybe we have a winner.

 For real fun try managing a group of people who volunteer. I still do this.

Guitarhacker


Reece, I made that jump in the last job I had. 

I came on board the company as a plant electrician and worked in the maint shop on the electrical and computer systems to keep the machinery running. It also included refits and new installs of new equipment. I was considered to be hourly... punch the clock.  I loved the work and did my job exceedingly well. 

About 2 years maybe close to 3 years in, I was approached by the boss a few levels up... "come to my office with me" sort of thing. I was offered a job as a supervisor over 45 people and a substantial raise plus "staff benefits and perks".  I told him I really liked my job but I would consider it. 

Several days later I mouthed off (cussed him out good) at my fellow worker who had just been made my  immediate supervisor and told him basically where he could go and what he could do when he got there..... he was feeling the oats of his new job title so he wrote me up.  So I found myself back in an office with the guy who was the boss of the guy who offered me the promotion...... 

He says..... we have a problem here... or more correctly, YOU have a choice to make. Do you want to take the promotion today that we offered you last week, or do you want to be fired for insubordination today?  Uhhhhh ..... let me think that one through...... I took the job promotion and they spun the story that it was a misunderstanding between friends..... 

So I ended up as a shift supervisor over 45 people. All of them heard the story, and thought I should have been fired, not promoted.  Talk about trying to earn respect..... the only thing going for me was that I had cussed the guy out... most everyone disliked him to one degree or another.  But I knew little to nothing about the actual work they did, but I did know the machines. 

One guy even came to me a few weeks later and told me to my face that he thought he should be setting in the chair that I was setting in and that I should have been fired.....BUT...... he hated the guy I cussed out even more than I did.... and therefore, he told me he was going to teach me everything I needed to know to succeed in that job. Which he did. 

I learned the job and excelled at it.  So a year later I came back to work after my 3 days off...( I worked 3 on 3 off 12/12)  ...... and I went to see the same guy who gave me the ultimatum a year earlier (staff yearly review) I was expecting a pat on the back and a decent raise..... and he says come in, close the door, set down.......... you're fired. It seems that the people who didn't like me but saw how well I was doing in the supervisor job were a bit fearful for their jobs.... they saw me as a threat. It had taken me less than 3 years to get to the level it took them over 8 to achieve...... so unknown to me they were politicking to get me gone.

It was at that time that I realized I didn't really get along well with people who were stupider than me but somehow were my bosses...... so I decided to chunk the whole corporate thing and be my own boss. 

All that to say, think it through. If your current position is a good one that you like and there are not going to be repercussions if you stay there...... don't jump. There is a lot to be said for working at a job that you know and enjoy. If you think you might enjoy something different, and if it comes with better pay and perks, give it some thought. If you do, simply ask if there could be a revision period, say 3 to 6 months where, if you didn't like the new position or felt you were not right for that job, you could return to your current position. It never hurts to ask and get the cards on the table. 

I actually did like the supervisory job pretty well.  But even though I was fired for political reasons, it all worked out well in the end because I started a business and put the energy into it that I brought to the factory jobs and made it a success. 

Pray about it. 

I actually did like the supervisory job pretty well. But even though I was fired for political reasons, it all worked out well in the end because I started a business and put the energy into it that I brought to the factory jobs and made it a success.