nightfalke

Each day I work here, I realize more and more that I am going nowhere in this company.

For the past two years, I have asked for certain things to happen with my career development. Each year, I get nothing out of it. To be honest, I don't think I have been as pushy during the time between annual reviews as I should have been, but that's not entirely my fault. It's hard to think about giving yourself more work when you are already up to your eyeballs in work.

I want to try some new things so I can figure out where I want my career to go. Every time I try and get the opportunity to do those thing, my requests fall on deaf ears. I want to attend project team meetings to learn how that process works. I want to learn more about the maintenance and troubleshooting of the instruments we have here. I want to feel like I'm making a difference. I want to feel that all my good work that I have done here has not been in vain.

But there is nowhere for me to go. There are people that have been here longer than I have, that deserve the promotion to that next level more than I do, that have not gotten it yet. There is nowhere for me to go in this group that I am in, and there are very few places for me to go outside of this group right now.