#professional life

[bitchesgetriches]

I recently decided to leave a job of 11 years I really loved for a position that is honestly a better move for me professionally. But I've really regretted making this decision and I've been so upset over leaving a role/workplace I really loved. I was wondering if either of the bitches ever felt this way? I'm telling myself this feeling is temporary and I'll grow to love the new job too (I'm basically doing the same thing, just at a higher level in a different place) but I've had to stop myself multiple times from reaching out to my old boss and begging to come back.

Oh wow, this sounds hella familiar!

When I left book publishing to be an editor in another industry, I experienced a lot of grief about what I viewed as my professional calling. But it got better! Maybe my thoughts along this journey will be helpful to you:

I Hate My Job and I Don't Know How To Leave It: A Confession 

A New Job, a New Day, a New Life, and I'm Feeling Good 

I Lost My Job and It Might Be the Best Worst Thing That’s Ever Happened to Me 

My Career Transition Succeeded When I Gave Fewer Fucks, Made More Friends, and Had More Fun 

[greatmolassesflood]

my favorite coworker's last day is friday. i'll miss her, but at least i'll have her entire workload to remember her by 🥰

[mondonguita]

True

[whosebob]

Y’all. I advocated for myself to get a job title change and a salary increase. It was so much work. I did my own salary study, I wrote emails, I wrote letters, I updated my resume, I followed up, I wrote my own job description... and it’s on the agenda to be voted on by the board tonight. Looks like it’s going through. I saw the agenda and the recommended action is for board approval. If it passes, I’ll officially be the senior educational audiologist.

I just want all the ladies out there to know that it is possible to negotiate even when it feels impossible. Even when people think you’re unlikable for doing it. Even when you’ve been made to feel like asking for more makes you seem ungrateful or unseemly.

For years it bothered me that my job forces me to be seen as a bitch. I’m over it. I’m really fucking good at what I do, and if people don’t like it, I’m on Lexapro so I don’t give a shit. Hahaha. My whole life is one long lesson in turning the other cheek and learning that life is not fair.

But I still ask.

[chipmunkweirdo]

Trying to use coloring as a transition out of work and back into creativity stepping stone.

It’s hard to get my brain to switch gears.

I hope the munks have time to post today. It’s hard getting back into things after being sick and then immediately going back to working.

[thesweetnessofspring]

Not "this meeting could have been an email" but "this meeting could have been between the two of you and let the rest of us do our work."

[frodothefair]

My workplace seems to want to redo everyone's photo badges (I'm not sure why, and I don't think it's necessary, but I suppose it's not my call), and they're having us submit our own pictures.

The only rules are that your cannot wear head or face coverings unless medically or religiously necessary, you must wear "professional attire," and it must be against a plain white or off-white background.

There are no rules against pictures in full-glam makeup with glittery eyeshadow and red lipstick, as well as waist-length hair draped over your chest. I'll submit a pic that looks like the above and see what happens.

Call it my little bit of civil disobedience.