Job Dilema!!!!?

Question

I am a graduate and have my first job as an Assistant Buyer. I work for a company that sells arts and crafts to schools. I miss working in fashion as duriing my placement year i was working on children's wear. It was great!!!!
I have been in my new job for two months but am SO BORED!!!! Everytime i ask for work to do they just palm me off. I hate not having things to do. I am looking for other jobs in retail. However, where i am now i have already jumped a position as you are meant to be a Buying Assistant before coming an Assistant Buyer. The money is **** but the job promises fast promotion (supposedly). WIthin a year i could be a buyer....if there is a position available!!! What should i do? Stay here and fast track or find a job within the area i actually want to be working in that offers more money?

Answer 1

get a new job

Answer 2

No dilemma at all. Be smart and work smart. Stick with this job -- for now -- but look, find and pursue what you want. FOLLOW YOUR DREAM. If you want, REALLY want, to work in fashion, then DO IT. Easier said than done, of course, but it IS do-able.

First: make your current job bearable. Determine why they "palm you off" and leave you with nothing to do. Are they jealous? Do they think you're young and driven and will supplant them with your enthusiasm? Find your niche there and work within it -- for now. The skills you develop working in this less-than-ideal workplace will only help you down the road, IF you're determined to learn from it.

Meanwhile, though your earnings are meager, SAVE YOUR MONEY. That rainy day is going to come, so you'd do yourself a BIG favor to have money in the bank to pay your living expenses, etc. should they dismiss you OR you decide you simply can't bear it anymore and leave. And EVEN if you transition from this job to a new job you'll feel a bit better knowing you have a financial cushion. No matter where you go or how many years you stay, HAVE THAT CUSHION, always build it up and ONLY use it for times of unemployment.

Good luck!!

Answer 3

This is where you career begins - are you there? or are you out "thinking" you deserve better.
By being a the lower end of the career ladder, you have the opportunity to observe and learn from your superiors. It may be "enticing" to get promoted, but you need to be preparing NOW for that promotion to buyer. Or they will be setting you up to fail.
If this is the career for you, you'd better learn how to be productive and skilled, and you can't do that by building a 'wall' around you as bored.
The company has acknowledged your potential - perhaps it's time you did the same. Enjoy being on the inside - there's hundreds of people on the outside wanting your job....
Good luck...

Answer 4

I can see why you'd want to leave, but leaving a job after only a few weeks looks bad on your CV, looks like you have no staying power. How about sticking it out until 6 months is up, but in the meantime try to resolve the situation where you are. Sounds like you need to ask for an appraisal from your line manager, at which you can bring up the things that are bothering you. This will be the test of how committed they are to ensuring staff development, and if you get no joy from it, you can go for interviews at other places with a very clear reason for why you are leaving after so short a time.

Answer 5

I have recently learned that life is too short to do something that makes you unhappy. So you may get promotion but there are no guarantees. Go get a job that satisfies you, you can still climb the ladder of success in a different company and be happy and fulfilled at the same time. Get out there and good luck xx

Answer 6

It never looks good to new employers if you have only stayed a very short time an a previous job, they will want to know why - it may look like you lack committment - perhaps try staying with it for a bit longer before moving, two months would look quite bad, although I expect you can explain that it has not turned out to be what you want. I would aim to be there for at least 6 months, and then re-evaluate.

Answer 7

stick it out, the better position will bring more money and then when you have a year or so of experience you can move to a different company with better prospects as you will have more experience in the job and therefore be more employable. employers will look favorably on you as you have progressed so quickly it means you're very good at your job. spruce up your cv and maybe improvise a little bit on it, include in all the things you do that arent part of your job description and emphasise everything. good luck

Answer 8

Hi..only you know what you really want to do, but as you say you are earning a low wage now and prospects are good maybe you think that wherever you go salary might be low to start with but remember hard work and the will to get on with the job and your fellow workers is usually rewarded so any new employer will see your potential if you are willing to work hard enough for it. You only have one life so is it worth being unhappy?

Answer 9

i grew to become into on your concern some months in the past and that i felt terrible. I took a advertising at the same time as my husband and that i knew there grew to become right into a solid threat we would be shifting. however the flow just about fell by using so i grew to become into happy I took the advertising even although we ended up shifting. I had to flow till now I had a great gamble to certainly take the situation and that they have been understanding. I did take under consideration staying longer basically for the journey yet i did no longer. on your case, what are the situations of you shifting? Can it wait? If it may-i might stay with the job and get the journey. I understand you feeling in charge yet you will possibly desire to do what's genuine for you, so in the journey that your flow did no longer artwork out you does no longer consistently ask your self approximately taking the job. solid good fortune! i recognize it truly is stressful yet grasp in there. Do what you think of is ideal. i think of you will possibly desire to take the job and in case you will possibly desire to stay for 6 months then solid for you!

Answer 10

Money isn't everything and you know it or you wouldn't even consider asking such a question. Go get the job you really want! Oftentimes, when you're doing something you love you're more open to discovering money-making opportunities, but that won't happen if you stick to what you're doing. You say they're palming you off and that you're already bored. Listen to yourself, for heaven's sake!

Answer 11

I think you should look for something else - it could take you a while to find something and whilst you are looking you never know what might happen where you already are. Most people spend the majority of their time in work and I think therefore you should be doing something that you enjoy otherwise you just get irritable and depressed !!

Good luck !