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- I'm considering this "paid training" that a company around here is providing. This is a growing tech company and they've had a hard time finding qualified people around here. Once you've completed the training, you're guaranteed an interview - though not guaranteed a job of course - and the job that you do get would be based here but might require up to 50% travel. I am feeling frustrated in my current job because I am not employed at my full potential, I don't receive any training, and I'm feeling trapped in the role of "female administrative support". Female administrative support roles aren't highly valued. I'll never be able to afford to buy a house as "female administrative support". The training is $14 an hour for 30 hours for 12 weeks. Difference in pay for me for those 12 weeks would be around $4,500. Which would be okay. Training is on business, consulting, systems analysis and design, data analytics, project management, information infrastructures, etc. I think it would make me a hundred times more marketable even if I didn't pursue a job with this company afterwards. I got a new boss this week. He seems nice, way more relaxed, there could be opportunities here, but as I said, I feel like I'm getting pigeonholed into the female administrative support role, and I'm not interested in that. At all. It's not the direction my career was headed until I moved into this office, but here I am now. (At least I've got my own office now, though.) So anyway. I probably won't do anything about this, but I sure could. (I had also thought about an MPA certificate, which I could still do, while staying employed at my current workplace.) (One bonus about leaving this job right now would be I'd still get my full FSA amount even though I wouldn't have paid in that full amount yet.) (I would have loved to travel for work but I've got a dog now and I don't want to travel. Also my running.) (The thought of not working here is scary. Inertia sure is comfortable!)
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