I am good at writing. I write good. I be able to put words together and stuff. Well. Blargh!!! (those don’t look like exclamation points, do they?) Writing is what I really like to do. I haven’t tried my hand at fiction as I don’t know if my imagination is my best asset when it comes to writing. What I think I have is a knack for being able to put in to words thoughts that are very clear and easy for others to understand. Hell, it almost sounds like I am good at writing instruction manuals. Perhaps I am? I’ve had people tell me that my instructional emails (which I send LOTS of at work) are almost too conversational in that I nearly am walking people through how to do things. I just like that. There was an email to the masses I sent out today that for some reason I was very very proud of. I don’t think it was long yet I don’t think I failed to hit a single point. And I did it with screenshots and style. And it was clear that I really enjoyed that aspect of my job. I always have. I enjoy writing on the realitynewsonline site and I really, and obviously, love writing on this blog/website o’ mine for like the past nine years. (eeek!)
What am I getting at, besides a profound tooting of my own horn (so to speak)? I am not in the right job. I probably haven’t been my entire life. I love computers and networking and systems – strangely, I really do. I even, after I get past all that craptastic crapitude that my job can provide, like the end result of what I do at NBC. It’s just not something I’m passionate about. And I can clearly see that there is no path for progression in my current position. Here’s why: there are people who enter/start at GE/NBCU via a program called OMLP/IMLP which stands basically for their Leadership Program (LP). These are the people who are groomed to be the leaders and the fast-track managers in the company that rise to the top. It’s almost like being an officer in the military, with the constant rotations and the constant upward mobility as long as you actually do a good job. Alas, I am not in that power structure. I came on as a project manager and not with the LP status. So I could theoretically just stick in this current job forever if I let myself do that. Yet the real power track is with the LP so while I could get maybe a slightly better job in another part of NBC, I’d never become part of the “club”. So that realization came to me today too. And it is frustrating. It’s frustrating that after all the hard, THANKLESS work we do, there’s little chance of much reward in a promotion.
So now we come back full circle to my initial point: I want to write. Until I figure out how I can do it as a job though, I’ve got to continue rocking my job at NBC. I do my job well and I am well respected by my peers and by my customers. I bust my ass and they know it. Yet the answer to a classic interview question, “Where do you see yourself in five years?”, is not here. <sigh>
Alright, fun video time – these are courtesy of the Onion. Love that site. Both videos are gay in nature and absolutely hilarious. Just keep in mind, the Onion is not a real news site and everything is extraordinarily sarcastic, just the way I like it.
Smoking is Gay:
Finding a Masculine Costume for Your Effeminate Son:
Gotta love the Onion website.
So anyway, that’s enough from me tonight. I do hope you remember that there are precious few days left to shop for my birthday!!!!