Guest guest Posted August 21, 2006 Report Posted August 21, 2006 I'm both excited and nervous about this. The other day, I was called into my boss' office, and he told me that he thought I was wasting my talents in my current job, and thought that the project I'm on is really meant for someone who had been working there for someone who liked projects, and who would want to retire in the job.. He told me that before approving his retirement, he asked the head of the Help Desk who he wanted to have replace him, and he picked me over everyone else. My boss agreed with him, and told me that he was offering me his job. I took it without so much as a second thought, since I told him I didn't much like doing projects anyway. I hated getting interrupted all the time by people in the project, and actually fixing computers was what I loved doing better. I'd basically be leapfrogging over 4 other people in my department in terms of seniority, and having the job several others were wanting for themselves. I'll be doing some supervising as well, mainly over the Help Desk people, as well as some of the other technicians. I did some supervising while I was in college, but nowhere near on this scale, which is why I'm somewhat nervous doing this. This is a government job, so if I do well, people will really take notice. " The truth is, I never fooled anyone about who I really am. People did a good enough job of that on their own. They would create a character of me in their minds, and be thoroughly disappointed when I failed to live up to that. " - Marilyn Monroe Debogorski elcap1999@... Quote
Guest guest Posted August 21, 2006 Report Posted August 21, 2006 That's really great! Congratulations. Clay wrote: > I'm both excited and nervous about this. The other day, I was called into my boss' office, and he told me that he thought I was wasting my talents in my current job, and thought that the project I'm on is really meant for someone who had been working there for someone who liked projects, and who would want to retire in the job.. He told me that before approving his retirement, he asked the head of the Help Desk who he wanted to have replace him, and he picked me over everyone else. My boss agreed with him, and told me that he was offering me his job. I took it without so much as a second thought, since I told him I didn't much like doing projects anyway. I hated getting interrupted all the time by people in the project, and actually fixing computers was what I loved doing better. I'd basically be leapfrogging over 4 other people in my department in terms of seniority, and having the job several others were wanting for themselves. I'll be doing some supervising as well, > mainly over the Help Desk people, as well as some of the other technicians. I did some supervising while I was in college, but nowhere near on this scale, which is why I'm somewhat nervous doing this. This is a government job, so if I do well, people will really take notice. > > " The truth is, I never fooled anyone about who I really am. People did a good enough job of that on their own. They would create a character of me in their minds, and be thoroughly disappointed when I failed to live up to that. " - Marilyn Monroe > > Debogorski > elcap1999@... > > Quote
Guest guest Posted August 21, 2006 Report Posted August 21, 2006 wrote: >...My boss agreed with him, and told me that he was >offering me his job. Congratulations! When do you start the new position? Will you get any on-the-job orientation from the current (soon to retire) man? Jane Quote
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