Hello all
As some of you may know (Because I posted about it a few months ago), I have been spending my summer interning with an amusement park here in the states as my capstone for my university degree. It has been a long, eventful summer that has recently lead to me being promoted to a supervisory role with the parks' Special Events department. I had been working Guest Relations and Special Events for my position but had worked my arse off to get my promotion because Events are what I do best, and are what I think I want to pursue as a career. I had been asked to apply for the Guest Relations supervisor role by one of my superiors, however I told him honestly, this is not a role I feel comfortable in, and it will not be beneficial to my career. Everyone in the Guest Relations department knows my feeling on this matter. So, we are at the end of our season now and we are losing staff. I look at my schedule for next week, and I have been placed in the Guest Relations office (the epicenter of stress and horrible people) as the supervisor for two shifts. This is the role that I have said time and time again, I am not comfortable doing. I have worked my butt off to get my promotion to special events supervisor and now I am being thrown into a role I have always said I can't do. What was even the point of promoting me if you're just gonna throw me around like this?
The invariable problem here is this. I said I would work September and October for our Halloween celebration, but now I am worried I will continually get stuck with a supervisor role I have not been trained on and will fail horribly at. I feel extremely undervalued at this company and there's no secret that the work getting done is way more important than the well being of the employees. I will NEVER EVER do a job just for the money, but that is the only thing keeping me here right now. I am obligated to work here until August 25th when my apprenticeship officially ends with my university. Any time I work after that is at my own choice. I don't want to break my obligation to the amusement park, but this job, and this park mean absolutely nothing to me at this juncture.
Tomorrow I know I will have to go to my manager and make an adult decision about what to do and only I can make that decision. What do you think? I am overthinking all of this? Would it be best for my professional career to tough it out? Or would it be better to do what's right for my self worth and my life?
Being an adult, what a roller coaster (Pun intended)
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1. Imagine yourself in ten years' time, interviewing someone. Ask yourself what you think what you would like to see on that person's resume. That will tell you what is the best path for you, from here. Do the thing that makes you look like you made the best choice.
2. Don't do what people tell you you should do. Take advice, learn from others, find out what some people think of your options. And then make your own decision in the full and permanent knowledge that it is your decision and yours only. Take credit if it turns out well; but own it if it doesn't work for you.
3. You have employed the word "arse", brilliantly. People from your country often fail to use it properly. But you've got it spot on, even if you went on to use the dreadful "butt" later on. Well done on using it, please continue to do so. It will stand you in good stead, eventually.
Good luck.
Remind them you don't have to be there after the date you specified.
Remind them you love, and are probably very good at, the roll your currently doing.
Remember in 1, 2 or even 10 years time, if someone asks you why left, you can tell them you did the 1st 3 things and were left with the choice of still doing it or walking away. If I was interviewing you and you said that you would be massively in credit.
Oh and looking good on the CV only matters for who you worked for an your job title, anyone can BS the rest of it.
Even though it's not what you want to do and have an aversion to it - you'll learn something from it, understand how colleagues go about dealing with the day to day involvement in that section. And you'll also learn something new about yourself.
It's only for a few weeks anyway.
Unpleasant as it might be at the time, in the long term there's not really 'bad experience' .... only something you've gone through and come out of eventually. It'll toughen you up and serve you in good stead in future.
’Tough it out’ vs what is right for your self worth and life.
I would do what you feel is best for your health and well being. IMHO that’s one of the most important things to do in life.
The more you know, the more you help, the more you don't complain the more you will be stitched up
You will also earn a lot more money however there seems to be a step change in society that you should do what makes you happy. Which I agree with, unfortunately nothing at work makes me happy or fulfilled but it does enable me to pay for other stuff that gives me joy and fulfillment
Being able to deal with things you are not comfortable with is a great confidence builder.
Unless you really need the money then what other benefits are there to staying? I feel like you won't enjoy it, it will just wind you up, you'll do more work to cover others, you will just be counting down the days and as you've already said you need to do what's best for you. Staying there a few extra weeks really doesn't sound like it will be worth it.