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groovygrl
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Anyone take a stretch job and hate it initially?
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What happened after that, did you continue to hate it and leave after how much time or once you got past the learning curve and discomfort did you start to enjoy it and are happy you stayed and how long did that take?
Brief background, I took a new role at a new place and while in my general field it is quite a different take on it with a whole host of new skills needing to be learnedand mistakes to be made lol. However there is a lot of pressure to make the dept successful and my predecessor left me with a bit of mess, my boss is generally supportive but doesn't know a whole lot about what the department does on a day to day basis and really no one in my company does either so I don't have many peers to look to for advice and I am starting to find those ppl little by little but it is hard. The ex
Brief background, I took a new role at a new place and while in my general field it is quite a different take on it with a whole host of new skills needing to be learnedand mistakes to be made lol. However there is a lot of pressure to make the dept successful and my predecessor left me with a bit of mess, my boss is generally supportive but doesn't know a whole lot about what the department does on a day to day basis and really no one in my company does either so I don't have many peers to look to for advice and I am starting to find those ppl little by little but it is hard. The ex
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Re: Anyone take a stretch job and hate it initially?
I know how tough it is. Good luck!
I took a stretch job a few whiles back and while I wouldn't say I hated it, the first 4-6 months were incredibly stressful. I had a hard time sleeping and felt very anxious that they would decide I was not suited for the position and give me the boot.
It ended up working out fabulously. I expanded my skillset tremendously and gave me great exposure in my field, allowing me to transition to self-employment when DS was born. I am a web developer and I was formerly in-house, now work as an independent contractor to my former employer and similar institutions. These days some RFPs that pass my desk are "stretches", and I have a much better intuition into which I'm willing to stretch my neck out for and which are just too much of a stretch.
All in all, the experience totally paid off. Good luck!
I took a stretch job a few years back and while I wouldn't say I hated it, the first 4-6 months were incredibly stressful. I had a hard time sleeping and felt very anxious that they would decide I was not suited for the position and give me the boot.
It ended up working out fabulously. I expanded my skillset tremendously and gave me great exposure in my field, allowing me to transition to self-employment when DS was born. I am a web developer and I was formerly in-house, now work as an independent contractor to my former employer and similar institutions. These days some RFPs that pass my desk are "stretches", and I have a much better intuition into which I'm willing to stretch my neck out for and which are just too much of a stretch.
All in all, the experience totally paid off. Good luck!
I would say my first real job out of lawschool was a real strech job. I think I didn't feel REALLY comfortable until I was in it a full year, although a lot changed in the company during that year and I really didn't have very much direction. I will say, too, that I am pretty good (I think) at my job now and have only been quite good at it for maybe 3 years. I've been here a total of 5. I think that I got credit for being better than I really was for at least a year and a half.
I think this is the key. Do you feel motivated to do better? Do you have a plan to get where you want the department to be? Is there a reward for you at the end of this?
If you answer 'Yes' to those questions, then you will probably get some value from continuing. If you answer 'No', then you may want to start looking.
In a new position, at a new company, I think it is reasonable to expect a 6 month period of gearing up.