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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
My advice is to just keep your mouth shut, tough out the next few months and be happy with the fact that you're going on to a career that doesn't involve fetching coffee.
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Either find another job (which it sounds like what you're going to do) or tough this one out. You should realize that as an employer, I'd wonder why you bounced from job to job. Also, leaving an office job to go be a lifeguard during nonsummer months looks questionable. If you were lucky enough to make it into a face-to-face interview, I would have several questions. If your answer was anything like this thread, that's going to be a black mark against you because it makes it appear that you don't do well in an office environment.
The office environment you're in now is a minor annoyance. Keep your eyes on the prize - the office job you want down the road.
GG - you and I have had our moments, but I think by now I only think highly of you. This is free advice, and maybe it's worth what you're paying for it, but I think you need to tough this out, realize that Jan's not there to order you around, and just focus on what your job really is. Future employers are going to be much more interested in your actual office job (even if it is fluffed up bullshit like this one) than any lifeguarding (unless you are managing several lifeguards, scheduling, etc.). You're going to be an architect, and that means that you're going to have to deal with the architectual version of me. When I interview folks straight out of college (which I do all the time since I rarely look for folks with experience), I look for folks that will fit with our office culture and won't cause problems. A work history that looks like a revolving door is a deal killer, but it makes me wonder what happened. Office work is ALWAYS going to look better to a future employer (assuming you're applying for office work) than not, so my advice continues to be to suck it up, deal until the end of the semester/quarter, then go on your merry way remembering that she's stuck fetching coffee while you're off doing something much more exciting. Eyes on the prize, baby.