I'm going to be ensconced back in the training room as I've been, and going to be having a decent machine to work on. I'm going to learn some of the crucial spreadsheets to be keeping things going, I'm going to be working on them virtually un-interrupted (and there is no phone in the room, so I might stay that way) and when crunch time comes around, there is talk of pulling or (*gasp*) hiring me an assistant.
At this point last week, I was unaware that I was being considered for this position. Heck, at this point last week, I was not aware that they'd cut through the "considering" and created the position, much less that they were taking applications.
I am now an Administrative Assistant. (I've been chortling at
hcolleen that I've finally realized my longtime dream of becoming a secretary.) While I'm not technically full-time, and therefore I'm not eligible for certain things, this job still has distinct potential for me. And it's a lot closer to home and closer to my comfort zone than dealing with end-users. I was all ready to get out of there when I was a Supervisor stuck on the call floor dealing with phone goons and the occasional angry respondent and One of the topics at the company meeting the other day was the general agenda for grooming those under us to take our place, and in turn being groomed to move up into the place of our seniors as they move up the ladder as well. It is relatively rare for an open position within the workplace to be filled by hiring an outsider. Yes, we do get outside specialists at high management level, and we get specialists for things like IT, or anything else where someone on staff already can't be found to fill the gap ... but the vast majority of the promotions are from within.
Evidently a promotion strategy like that is rare out in the business world, and I am doing well to have landed myself a decent position there. With my skill set, I could probably wind up in some form of data analyst position, though gods help me if I were wrong about things.
Work is from around eight to four. The position was advertised as ten to five, but we've been doing the early-ish thing, and the eight hours thing. I have yet to exactly work out the break schedule, but it's possible to run on that schedule with little intermittent intermissions for coffee and the restroom and a bite of pear or something (pear seems to be my seasonal fruit of the moment, though I think I've just run out) and not have a sit-down break all day.
I've gone corporate. Send help.
