And I feel like I have peeked.
I started working for the company I am with when I was 18, it was intended to be a college gig only part time, but as I graduated I found I really enjoyed the work and ended up taking a full time spot with the company during my final semester of school.
Since 2007, I have held 3 different positions with the company.
Part of this is because the position I am currently in only moves me into Management, where these positions so infrequently open up that there was only one opportunity for me within the past 3 years, and when I applied for it they gave it to someone who wanted to change branches because it was a "quality of life move" and I wasn't ever given the opportunity to interview. When this was found out tons of my peers were pissed, because I am seen as a natural leader in my team, and already do a lot of the work that I was interviewing for.
So now the likelihood of moving up again seems to be fading quickly, and I feel completely stuck where I am. I have virtually mastered my role, my pay raises have maxed out because if I keep getting them I will be making more than someone of my managers, but I am starting to hate myself for not developing any more, and I have hobbies I am interested in but I cannot afford because my income isn't great enough, so in my free time I just wait for the next work day to come because spending money on things I enjoy means not saving money for the future.
I have applied for jobs at other places over the past 2 years, but haven't gotten so much as a phone call; I have a Bachelors degree I don't really even use, but I don't have any certifications for this degree, and I found during my last year of college (you know, the one where you take program major courses?) that it wasn't really for me, so I just finished the program just to say I have the degree.
I don't have a clue what to do with my life or my time, I have no kids, I am not married, and I absolutely love working (currently sitting on over 260 hours of sick time, I have used 1 sick day in the past 6 months), but I hate being stuck where I am.
I consider myself to be highly technical (since my current job requires it), I take interest in how things work, but I struggle in the realm of programming languages and high level math (my abilities really struggle at Trigonometry and Calculus), which sort of puts engineering out of the question. I take great interest in the "why" of design, but I lack the creativity to make something on my own out of scratch, but can easily follow instructions on how to build something, and understand the why of the construction process.
Lastly, everywhere I go to apply for jobs, I get these pie in the sky requirements that I never seem to perfectly (or even nearly perfectly) fit into, even entry level stuff or jobs intended for recent college grads seem to have requirements that I can't seem to meet, or ask things of me that I haven't ever done.
This struggle is starting to slump me into depression, nothing is ever new in my life, nothing is ever exciting or different. Its just the same in and out every day, and frankly I am sick of it. I know I am worth more, I know I can do better, I just don't have the first clue what it is I should be doing.
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