Winter Storm
09-08-2004, 02:30 PM
Ok, here's the brief scenario. I took my present job as a sales coordinator because I was desperate to leave my previous 'mall' job , I was a recent grad and was eager to get into the marketing industry.
Two years later, it is clear to me that this position (which is 80% adminstrative, 20% marketing) is going nowhere and I feel that I'm wasting my time making copies, filing, and double checking behind other people's work. I'm basically the middleman between everybody else with 'real work' to do. I feel stifled. I'm not learning anything, I'm not meeting people in the industry (I sit in a cubicle all day), I don't go to sales meetings, get phone calls or have any interaction with people outside this building. I want out.
Here's the problem, because I've barely learned anything about marketing (and sending out various spam emails does not count), I don't feel as though I've gained enough experience to really go for a better position. Secondly, the company is paying 100% of my grad school tuition, including books and I feel that I may need this degree more than anything to better my career.
I am only one year and a half away from graduating. I feel that it would be better to finish my degree before I explore the job market. But sometimes while I'm sitting here, cleaning out emails (or some other mundane office task), I feel like I'm wasting my talents and that I'm basically an office clerk. As much as 50% of my day is in downtime.
My boyfriend said to me today (he's a civil engineer with an exciting, busy, lucrative career), he never makes his interns file or type letters because that doesn't help them learn about the industry. His interns are doing better than I am!
Thoughts, please!
Two years later, it is clear to me that this position (which is 80% adminstrative, 20% marketing) is going nowhere and I feel that I'm wasting my time making copies, filing, and double checking behind other people's work. I'm basically the middleman between everybody else with 'real work' to do. I feel stifled. I'm not learning anything, I'm not meeting people in the industry (I sit in a cubicle all day), I don't go to sales meetings, get phone calls or have any interaction with people outside this building. I want out.
Here's the problem, because I've barely learned anything about marketing (and sending out various spam emails does not count), I don't feel as though I've gained enough experience to really go for a better position. Secondly, the company is paying 100% of my grad school tuition, including books and I feel that I may need this degree more than anything to better my career.
I am only one year and a half away from graduating. I feel that it would be better to finish my degree before I explore the job market. But sometimes while I'm sitting here, cleaning out emails (or some other mundane office task), I feel like I'm wasting my talents and that I'm basically an office clerk. As much as 50% of my day is in downtime.
My boyfriend said to me today (he's a civil engineer with an exciting, busy, lucrative career), he never makes his interns file or type letters because that doesn't help them learn about the industry. His interns are doing better than I am!
Thoughts, please!