Trapped in a job

hargi

hargi

hargi

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Sorry if this turns into a rant but i dont know what to do.

Our line manager finished a few weeks back, and we had been getting along quiet well, till today when we got told that we have a new line manager, this person already works in the company. which were not happy about. the person has no real idea about what i do and i think will turn my job into form filling in and that.I can see my job going in the wrong direction compleatly to what i want it to. I have already been contacted for weekly meetings'? whats that about think monthy meetings would be over kill.
Anyways im feeling really trapped now as i need my job as i have to support my other half next year while she does teacher training. This one was ideal as its justnext door to home.
The thing is im a VLE administrator and dont really know what other jobs i could go for, i mean i did a Foundation degree in ICT, mainy web stuff. but i dont think im qualified to go for any proper wed design/ development jobs. I could go for IT technition, but that would be going back down a level for me.
I dont really know what to do, and what i shold be looking for.

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I think it's very commendable that your are giving your partner this opportunity.
However, given your circumstances, I think you need to look at this at two angles.

1. If you are really not happy then discuss the situation with your partner and see if you can come to an agreement to allow you to move on but allows her to continue with her studying. After all, if you move on you want better pay. Or maybe she can make some allowances.

2. If you feel that you really must support her the way you do, then stick with it until after she finishes, then review it then.

The situation you are in not to unlike many people who are supporting partners with young children. Having the responsibility to support a family is good but the security can be restrictive. I've been in the same job for over 20 years and It's incredibly hard to get out of the trade I'm in because the money is good but the job sucks. You have the advantage really that you don't have the kids.
 
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This may not be an option but you could always take a recognised course in business computing to expand your knowledge base and make you more accessible to employers. Perhaps something recognised by the CompTIA.
I get confused with foundation degrees, is it possible to top it up to a full BsC via a sandwich course? My mate has done a foundation in Photography and is planning on going up country to do a full degree in a uni somewhere, although that's full time
 
thanks for the support guys.
shes been trying to get on the course for 4 years now as she only wants to go to this one place. so she has to do it, which i dont mind. infact im happy about as she will then be doing a job she likes for more money so i suppose looking at it that way i should only be stuck a year in the worst case.
My pay is ok but like anything in education its a few grand less than in the outside world.

Mojo what do you recommend from comptia
 
Incidentally, something else in common..my other half has just finished her PGCE in Art.

Be prepared for a year of stress.
 
Platipus this is a SCIT or sommat course, how much work did she have to do at home?

foundation degree are 2 years at uni i got told there slightly more more value than HND/HNC though i dont know about this as people dont seam to understand them. I could top this off but that would have to be full time at uni, as the open uni try scamming you to top up.
 
You say that the new manager does not know what you are doing. Well that's probably why they have asked for weekly meetings so they can understand what is going on with the people under them and pick up on things more quickly.
 
hargi said:
Platipus this is a SCIT or sommat course, how much work did she have to do at home?
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It started out light, and then got depressingly heavy. Lesson and activity planning, on top of writing 3 mini-dissertations is not easy. I only mention it because you are probably under a lot of stress yourself - I know I am and we seem to be in similar situations.

Sarah needed a lot of propping up over the course of the year. I was happy to do it, but it took a hell of a lot out of her. I'm so proud of her now that she's finished (graduation ceremony next Friday :)), and she's taking 3 weeks to go to South America to do nothing but sit on a beach, which she fully deserves.

I don't know an awful lot about the PGCE courses though - Sarah did hers at the University of Cambridge which is pretty much the best in the country, but they probably work you harder then elsewhere.

I can't believe the crap our teachers go through given how hard their jobs are.
 
Your job hasn't actually changed for the worse, and you're only assuming that it will.

Talk to the new line manager; take the initiative and help them to understand you and your position.

You never know, it might be an improvement.

:)
 
Rhys said:
Book some holiday. Come back and just try to see things in a positive light.
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Maybe do this, then try and get some holidays in every few months. Maybe once your g/f has finished training and has a job you can re-assess your career and retrain for something else if thats what you want
 
hargi said:
Platipus this is a SCIT or sommat course, how much work did she have to do at home?

foundation degree are 2 years at uni i got told there slightly more more value than HND/HNC though i dont know about this as people dont seam to understand them. I could top this off but that would have to be full time at uni, as the open uni try scamming you to top up.
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you can do HND/HNC and foundation degree at college, its 2/3 days a week, dont have to go to uni.
 
I agree with Evangelion. You new supervisor will have a lot of new information they will have to be learning. Not only do they have the new role to get up to speed on but everyone in the team also eg you. I expect they will want to find out exactly what you do, how and why so that they fully understand it and then can justify it when someone asks them why you have a job.

Lots of new options could be made if you get on well with the new guy and just try and see things out, what difference does it make if you wait a little bit longer to see how things go? You should give it at least a month as you never know!
 
I had a change of management at my previous employer. The job went almost overnight from being good to being a hell hole because my boss was an idiot but I had to support all his loony decisions. I am the main bread winner (I.e. had to pay mortgage and so on) and I had to suck it up for two years before I could move on as i was tied in a very expensive training contract.

It tests your character but you come out the other side a stronger person as long as you don't break. I didn't break because of the support I got from ym good wife.
 
I could cope with a new outside manager, but this is a manager in the company that has got it, that i used to work with and advise. Our old one left us to it, if there was a problem he would see us, if we had a problem we'd see him. fully supportive and he knew what to do if something went wrong or you needed help.
This one knows what we do, or thinks they do, but in reality they dont. If they managed like our old one they would be no problem but they have already started interfering. The thing is there one of these people that you couldnt go to with a technical problem as they wont have a clue.
think mine has gone like that to lord splodge, happy and carefree 8 am by 9 30 :(
 
I'd still apply for those developer jobs tbh. I did before I finished my modern apprenticeship, and here I am 1 year into a development job I love, earning more than double what I was before (which was just above pittance so not a real bragging right)
 
BoomAM said:
I take it you work in a school?
What VLE is it?
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college,

were using Fronter at the moment, but changing to moodle soon.

how do you find your job dj jester.

I mean befor my current job i applied to be web designer for the councils schools and came 2nd the one that got it had teaching experience by all acounts and thats what swung it his way.
 
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