Taking the next step in my career. While I'm happy with what I do and I'm thankful to have a job, I still think I'm vastly underpaid and under utilized. I am rarely challenged and have no mentor to make me better and push me harder and tell me to fix my ugly shit. I create something outstanding and actually think about it and work my ass off and I get the exact same feedback and copy changes as when I do it in 30 minutes and throw some clip art on that bitch. It's highly depressing and not motivating at all. I hate creating stuff I'm not 100% proud of but since the time constraints and fact that no one knows the difference anyways, I find myself delivering shitty work more and more. Staying at this job is easier than sneaking around trying to find a new one. We will see. I'll probably get super fed up one day just put in a couple days notice and leave and then I'll be forced to find a new job.
Nothing has convinced me more of the benefits of having a good mentor than my wife. She's an artist though she never did more than a few classes in college in regards to art. She befriended someone who became her mentor and over the course of a year moulded her into someone who was able to get a job at an animation studio. Finding a mentor, however, is hard. Someone needs to make an online dating-esque service for mentors.I am rarely challenged and have no mentor to make me better and push me harder and tell me to fix my ugly shit.
I would pay good money for said service.Finding a mentor, however, is hard. Someone needs to make an online dating-esque service for mentors.
Right there with you. Except I'm over utilized and underpaid as a result. My company relies on me for pretty much all of our new infrastructure projects and web solutions, and well I am paid well, I think I'm underpaid/underemployed. I love my job because "I'm a somebody there", and have job security. But I hate it because I could be working in a more glamorous industry than foreclosure solutions, and I could be making a lot more money somewhere else and not be on the fist end of other peoples hardships. Getting married and finding out my wife is pregnant recently has kind of kicked my ass into high gear. So hopefully that's the open handed slap across the face I need. Good luck, go get'em!Taking the next step in my career. While I'm happy with what I do and I'm thankful to have a job, I still think I'm vastly underpaid and under utilized.