Today I come with a minor news. A couple of month's back I did not get a promotion that I had thought I rightfully deserved. Read about that fiasco here and here. In our next 1:1 meeting, I had told my boss that we should align and document an action plan for a promotion next year.
But ever since the idea of becoming a doctor entered my mind, I have been busy studying for the various qualifying tests.
So life was looking pretty rosy - it didn't matter how the job was going 'cause I needed more time for my studies. There was Japanese and A-level science to catch up. Studying Physics, Chemistry and Biology had a new meaning.
Then came yesterday. I was called to inform that I would be given a promotion if I performed well in a new assignment. The new assignment would be for a period of eight months, handling two toughest categories in my company. If at the end of it I were to get positive reviews from management, then the promotion is a guarantee. And before anyone asks, no I did not have a choice. The person handling these two categories was going on an adoption leave and they needed an experienced person to step in. To top it all, my current role has been put on the website for internal applicants.
So let's rewind and breakdown this information. I have a new assignment for 8 months. If I do it well, I get a promotion and then I have to search internally within the company for a new role. Even if I don't get a promotion, I have to leave the assignment and search for a new role within the company after 8 months. Why? Because in my company people have to change assignments every three years and by Jan 14, I would have completed fours years in similar assignments.
Today was the formal announcement. Some people congratulated me and others actually commented "Oh Poor You...." Personally, I don't know what to make of it.
With this new work responsibility, I won't have time for things that really matter to me - studying and exercising. I will be travelling a lot and I mean a lot, will be handling twice the number of projects that I am handling currently and be dead strapped for time.
All this point to just one question - "What about my dreams of becoming a doctor?" Reality has not yet sunk in because I will takeover the role only next Monday.
What do you guys think? An opportunity knocking or a hurdle in disguise?
But ever since the idea of becoming a doctor entered my mind, I have been busy studying for the various qualifying tests.
So life was looking pretty rosy - it didn't matter how the job was going 'cause I needed more time for my studies. There was Japanese and A-level science to catch up. Studying Physics, Chemistry and Biology had a new meaning.
Then came yesterday. I was called to inform that I would be given a promotion if I performed well in a new assignment. The new assignment would be for a period of eight months, handling two toughest categories in my company. If at the end of it I were to get positive reviews from management, then the promotion is a guarantee. And before anyone asks, no I did not have a choice. The person handling these two categories was going on an adoption leave and they needed an experienced person to step in. To top it all, my current role has been put on the website for internal applicants.
So let's rewind and breakdown this information. I have a new assignment for 8 months. If I do it well, I get a promotion and then I have to search internally within the company for a new role. Even if I don't get a promotion, I have to leave the assignment and search for a new role within the company after 8 months. Why? Because in my company people have to change assignments every three years and by Jan 14, I would have completed fours years in similar assignments.
Today was the formal announcement. Some people congratulated me and others actually commented "Oh Poor You...." Personally, I don't know what to make of it.
With this new work responsibility, I won't have time for things that really matter to me - studying and exercising. I will be travelling a lot and I mean a lot, will be handling twice the number of projects that I am handling currently and be dead strapped for time.
All this point to just one question - "What about my dreams of becoming a doctor?" Reality has not yet sunk in because I will takeover the role only next Monday.
What do you guys think? An opportunity knocking or a hurdle in disguise?
1 comment:
I think you'll get the medico thing done somehow although others might fall off the plate. That kinda seems v impt. to you. It's an opportunity if it means you still keep your career going strong, make more money perhaps for those awful study loans you might have to take later and just a safe fall back option to have.
Deepa
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