In all the excitement, I almost forgot to mention the thing I’ve been having to keep quiet about for over a month.
Last week I put in an application for a new position at work, and following an interview earlier this week, I have been appointed IT Support Manager at Challoner’s, effective 1st February (i.e., next week).
To cut a long story short, I approached my boss a couple of weeks before Christmas to express my interest in doing further internal training and taking on more responsibility, although there was no real position to fulfil that as the IT roles that existed at Challoner’s were ‘IT Technician’ (the job I already had) and ‘Network Manager’ (the position which my boss isn’t planning to vacate any time soon). It turns out that senior management had seen this day coming and had already discussed what to do about it, so in quite short order the wheels started to turn to create a new position that could I slot into. Huzzah! etc.
#1 by gaiadea on 25 January, 2008 - 9.17 pm
Huzzah for you! What will your new position entail?
#2 by deldel99 on 26 January, 2008 - 12.29 am
Congratulations! That’s pretty frickin’ cool!
#3 by Jay on 26 January, 2008 - 10.25 am
Initially it will mean starting to get more involved in the more strategic parts of the job; budgeting, long-term projects, etc., and further training in supporting parts of the systems at work I haven’t touched yet (mainly the core networking). The idea is to free up some of the Network Manager’s time for things like internal software development, for which there is a large list of things to do and not enough time to do them at present.
Line manager responsibilities for the other IT Technicians will also be devolved to me, so now I actually have to learn how to wade through the onerous and largely pointless review process we have at work.