Surely you have been going along in your daily life, convinced that all is well and suddenly discovered that "things are not always what they seem"? That happened to me this week. As if "while I was sleeping I hit my head" week was not enough.
Recently I had become aware of things involving my job and my position in the company that are apparently leading me down the road that I do not want to go. My manager has decided that I am going to be mentored by her for a management position. I am to learn all that she knows, which I already know quite a bit. I have to take over and run the place when she is on vacation, which I pretty much already do. So okay, no biggie, it's not like I don't know how to do almost everything and don't do practically all of it anyway.
Here is where the confusing, disconcerting thing comes in. When did I ever say that I would want to take, learn, do, or even try for the insanity of a management position? I have no issue with staying where I am now because I am going to school for something totally different. I have racked my brains for the indication that I might have given that I would want a management career and I can't figure it out. I am going to school and have made it clear that I don't plan on staying on once I get a position with a company that is geared towards my program of study. My manager and I had actually talked a few weeks ago about how I would be crazy to go into a higher position because of what I planned to do after I finished school. So I have no idea what is going on, and I cannot stand that. I have decided that I have slipped into an alternate universe and I am actually taking business classes for management. It doesn't explain why I carry around my anatomy and physiology book, or why I continue to study from it or that I look forward to learning more medical things or that my ideal career is writing, but I could find an explanation for that too. I mean, things are literally not what they seem to be so, why not?
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If your plan is to leave once you have an opportunity to work in your program of study, don't worry about it. If they stick you in management and you have to leave after becoming a manager, then leave. It doesn't and shouldn't change your plans. And it will actually look decent on your resume.
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