Do you like your job?
- Thread starter Beckiboo
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I am an IT Project Manager for a large Worldwide American IT Company. I have to travel and work on projects on client sites. The projects can range from 2 weeks to 10 years!! I have to live in a hotel all week and i am the only female surrounded with men in sandals.
Do i enjoy it? Most of the time but staying in hotels and being away from everything and everybody can be very depressing. I am aiming to leave as soon as i have some more qualifications under my belt because they pay pretty poorly for an IT company.
My dream job would be in Property Development and i love DIY so would definitely try and do it all myself.
Do i enjoy it? Most of the time but staying in hotels and being away from everything and everybody can be very depressing. I am aiming to leave as soon as i have some more qualifications under my belt because they pay pretty poorly for an IT company.
My dream job would be in Property Development and i love DIY so would definitely try and do it all myself.
I am a PR manager and writer for a sports magazine that is distributed here in Spain (and is due to launch in May in England!). The pay is great...co-workers fantastic but I only wish I had the office that looked out the window to the sea! (I only get to see an overgrown tropical garden!
)
My ambition in life though is to do Sweet F.A. and be a "lady of leisure" here in the sun!!!
)My ambition in life though is to do Sweet F.A. and be a "lady of leisure" here in the sun!!!
I'm a strategist / creative planner for the digital arm of a big advertising agency. I absolutely love it, I get to work with very cool youth brands and basically take the requirements of our clients and convert them into marketing strategies and creative briefs.
Since I left uni just as the internet was becoming ubiquitous, there would be no way I could have foreseen this as a career, but I'm very pleased to be where I am now. The only career change I would entertain is leaving to start my own (probably music / marketing project)...
Since I left uni just as the internet was becoming ubiquitous, there would be no way I could have foreseen this as a career, but I'm very pleased to be where I am now. The only career change I would entertain is leaving to start my own (probably music / marketing project)...
Jinja said:mark you tell me this everytime i see you and yet i still have no clue what a strategist / creative planner does????
the brains of the operation. taking all the clients info and converting it into something designers can understand?
am i right? or wrong as usual?
mambobirdette
Active Member
Drew if i lived nearer id apply for the position myself but id also be quite scared that i ticked you off you would rip my throat out
Have you got any local agencies around your neck o' the old woddio?? just go with one of them.
Roles of a PA
To lick the directors arse and get abused
Have you got any local agencies around your neck o' the old woddio?? just go with one of them.
Roles of a PA
To lick the directors arse and get abused
Drew said:
It's you who have to descrive this position, you should know and think what do you want from a PA, what kind of duties you want to delegate, what do you expect and what do you offer.
I worked in five different companies as assistant and except for very basic duties I always had differnt things to do depending on the sector or the boss
puppylover
Active Member
In answer to Beckiboo's question Do I enjoy it and do I see myself doing it for the rest of my life......
I never wanted to be a secretary (my mother was so....
).
I wanted to study photography and fashion at college but parents wouldnt pay for it - I had to train for a proper career....
(As Chewie says "so much for parental support"!!!).
However, I am extremely good at my job, and most of the senior partners on needing a new PA for whatever reason tend to ask for me to run their lives, but so far, my hands are full with the guys I have got and I enjoy working for them so I havent taken on any new men in the last year - but it always boosts your confidence in that you know you do an excellent job and you are wanted because you are efficient and good at your role.
Whether I stay with this company til retirement (eeeek!! What a thought ) I am doubtful, to be honest I plan to be moving on to work with Phil once our business is up and running and I am needed on a full time basis.
Fingers crossed anyway.....
I never wanted to be a secretary (my mother was so....
).I wanted to study photography and fashion at college but parents wouldnt pay for it - I had to train for a proper career....
(As Chewie says "so much for parental support"!!!).However, I am extremely good at my job, and most of the senior partners on needing a new PA for whatever reason tend to ask for me to run their lives, but so far, my hands are full with the guys I have got and I enjoy working for them so I havent taken on any new men in the last year - but it always boosts your confidence in that you know you do an excellent job and you are wanted because you are efficient and good at your role.
Whether I stay with this company til retirement (eeeek!! What a thought
) I am doubtful, to be honest I plan to be moving on to work with Phil once our business is up and running and I am needed on a full time basis.Fingers crossed anyway.....
Morbyd
Moderator
Ya, Drew... get off your lazy butt and write it yourself! You haven't hired any of us yet!silvia said:It's you who have to descrive this position, you should know and think what do you want from a PA, what kind of duties you want to delegate, what do you expect and what do you offer.Drew said:
I worked in five different companies as assistant and except for very basic duties I always had differnt things to do depending on the sector or the boss
Or have your PA do it. Oops. You ain't got one!
mambobirdette said:Drew if i lived nearer id apply for the position myself but id also be quite scared that i ticked you off you would rip my throat out
Have you got any local agencies around your neck o' the old woddio?? just go with one of them.
Roles of a PA
To lick the directors arse and get abused
Yeah, loads of agencies but not keen on agencies really.
I'll probably just advertise in local newspaper or job sites.
P.S. I could never get angry with you Mambs. I am in fact one of the nicest bosses you could wish to work for (too nice for my own good sometimes
)Morbyd said:Ya, Drew... get off your lazy butt and write it yourself! You haven't hired any of us yet!
Or have your PA do it. Oops. You ain't got one!
I would but i end up writing something way way way too long so end up starting over and making it too brief.
My secretary wrote her own in the end
Sounds crazy, but it worked out best for both of us.mambobirdette
Active Member
Drew said:Yeah, loads of agencies but not keen on agencies really.
I'll probably just advertise in local newspaper or job sites.
P.S. I could never get angry with you Mambs. I am in fact one of the nicest bosses you could wish to work for (too nice for my own good sometimes
No agencies will rip you off too with fees. Do you have any other admin team in your office???
Stop being so nice to your staff