How do you guys find jobs that have advancement?

tdean

I've noticed a lot of you talk about promotions, more responsibility, learning new things, moving to different departments etc.

Where are these jobs? I mean, how would i find a place that was structured in such a way that i'd be able to do my job, study, build new skills and move up the chain, so to speak? I understand some of you might say "In the city" or "at a financial company", but how would that work? i go in, and what.... ask to only do one job? i dont get it. Every place ive been i've had to do everything from help desk, to phones, to email, vpn's, website etc etc...

this probably sounds ridiculous to some of you, but i just dont know how the corporate world works i guess.

Mojo_666

erpadmin wrote: »

There is just too much political crap people have to go through to advance. It's either you ____ some ___(_) [front or back action... ] or you move on. I choose the latter when feasible and if it's not then, like a grandmaster chess player, I wait patiently for an opening and then strike. But under no circumstances do I participate in the former.

That is so true, the times I did get promoted I got on very well with my manager and the directors of the company. I think to be new in a company it is hard, you really do have to serve your time to get in favour with the right people and I just do not have the inclination to spend my time kissing arse sucking up and being the good employee I should in the eyes of people with the power. I am what I am and I do not play at politics, I say it how I see it. Contracting and pimping my warez to anyone who will pay me is great, I get to watch all the office crap from the side lines, I don't have to vie for position, I get paid more than anyone else anyway so I am always at the top in the way that matters to me.

I will no doubt land a contract where I get on great with the powers that be and end up staying...........which is what happened in my last perm job.......where I got my promotions.