Cordelia ,'Storyteller'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I wish they'd stop asking what I want to do with my career.
Yeah, that question irks me too. I don't want a career. I want to lounge with chocolates and sushi at my fingertips. I want to krav all the time and take photographs and draw and actually finish reading the books I start. In the meanwhile, I'm making do.
George Clooney being adorable after the Oscars. That's one lucky dame.
sara, don't worry about truthful answers to the questions. Make some stuff up to just get through it.
My micromanaging boss is hassling me about it. It's driving me nuts. This particular part (the individual development plan ) is something I've always handwaved and gotten away with it. I've never figured out exactlywhat they want, and they've never told me. Until now, I guess. And it's got all these sections and rigid format, I can't use something like the suggestion msbelle had. It's just stupid. I know there are managers and employees out there who find it useful, but it's a really pointless exercise with an employee stays out of apathy.
Yeah, that question irks me too. I don't want a career. I want to lounge with chocolates and sushi at my fingertips. I want to krav all the time and take photographs and draw and actually finish reading the books I start. In the meanwhile, I'm making do.
ita is me, but swap the sushi with blueberries, krav with swordplay and photography with writing. I hate those career/"Where do you see yourself in five years" questions.
"Where do you see yourself in five years?" "In your job, of course."
Individual development plan: Pick out two or three classes/training things you'd be interested in, regardless of how much relevance they have to your actual job.
PS, I RULE: Two phone calls and one email, and I have two appointments. Now to call people I don't know.
"Where do you see yourself in five years?" "In your job, of course."
Ya know?
Not that I want my manager's job, in the least. Hell no. But it seems that the 'right' answer is either "in your job" or "working somewhere else." There are only so many spots between where you're standing now and your boss's job.
Could I love George Clooney more? Only if his name were Nathan.
Could someone cast those two in a movie so my head can explode.
sara, insent.
I don't know if my five-year plan answer would have been career suicide in a more structured corporate culture, but I said I want to be doing exactly what I'm doing now, hopefully on a really successful self-published program (published by our company's owners, not me personally).
Hey Zmayhems! You have e!
But it seems that the 'right' answer is either "in your job" or "working somewhere else." There are only so many spots between where you're standing now and your boss's job.
I guess the answer could be, "In the same job, but doing it better than anyone ever imagined it could be done!!1!" Depending on if the boss is concerned about turnover or ambition.
OK, this is where I admit it is for LAST year.
Procrastinate, much?