So I've been itching to blog for a while now. But I have been refraining, with a lot of difficulty.
I'm a currently in the middle of a new job search. I am fed up with my current employment and looking for something more fulfilling. It's been a long, frustrating process. I can't make myself apply for those jobs that will put me right back into a situation like I am in now. I just can't do it! So it's making the search and application a wee bit more difficult.
I have found the job love of my life! I just need the interview. I know in my heart if I can obtain that crucial interview, I'll nail the job. I'm keeping my entire body crossed at the moment and keeping positive about the whole thing. Please help in keeping your fingers crossed for me too!
The only little problem I see in applying for jobs is, I have to keep my nose clean and watch what I say on the internet. Many companies do internet searches to research their potential future employees. The company I have applied at, it really wouldn't surprise me if they took a peak at my bolg (hint hint, they run this blog site. Should I have said that? Ah well, I'm throwing caution to the wind). So far I haven't felt like I've posted anything abnormally outrageous, or contemptuous. All in all, it's nothing I feel I should be worried about. But boy am I'm really having to bite my tongue these past few months.
One of my former colleagues and I had many long talks about work ethics and treatment of employees, at what was once a shared employment. He has fortunately moved on to another job. Needless to say, these conversations we had were not exactly positive conversations. Now, I'm not one to talk bad about people. I like to have a positive attitude it makes life more enjoyable. The negative really does have a way of putting a dark gloom over things. And besides, it makes me feel like a horrible person talking negative about someone. It's just my nature.
So here's my dilemma. I want to share with people my current experiences to make them aware that it's NOT okay to treat your employees in such a manor as I experience every day, but I don't want it to be construed by potential future employers as bad mouthing my current employer. It's not bad mouthing I want to express, it is about basic human treatment that everyone is entitled too regardless. So I'm left in an ethical quandary as to what to do. The right thing would be to keep my fingers quite. But do I have to keep the quite forever? Is there ever a right time to share?
The best solution to my current problem, would to be to resign from my job, but with the cost of living on the rise, it would be a very irresponsible move on my part financially. So responsible I shall continue to be, but ethically torn by my standards of treatment and need to continue to bring home a paycheck. It's remarkably a hard situation to deal with. I'm starting to understand why people continue to work at low end jobs. They have to, just to make ends meet. It's a sad situation.
But, as with all things in my life, I like to try to leave things with a positive note.
There are some things I do appreciate at my job. There are people that I work with (outside my office) who truly make it worth going to work each day. And to those people, thank you for all your support and kindness and those smart ass comments that keep me laughing. I shall miss them all when I leave, they have become part of my family.
