
I was recognized at work when...
I started as air export manager and got promoted to branch manager

Over looked
I left my job over a month ago due to me being used and over looked. I did more than was expected but was never good enough for a promotion. Talked to the higher ups with no help. They pretended to listen but never heard me. So now I'm looking and hoping to find another job.

What makes a job a good one?
I read these job posts, and from an outsiders perspective, I see how most people are trained to work for money. I have tried to educate my children about how important it is to be the one who owns the corporate ladder, instead of climbing someone else's. In the world of business, companies hire individuals, but don't do business with them. Businesses do business with other businesses. That's the world I operate in. The stakes are much higher, but a company can make more money, and operate in multiple physical locations or everywhere at once ( social media platforms) while an individual is limited to their physical ability and the number of hours in a day. I'm not discouraging anybody from being an employee, without good employees a business will go out of business. I am an employee of my own company. There is a trap which lies in wait for all employees, and it plays out in an endless cycle, which goes like this: most children go to school, get good grades, graduate high school, then college, and land a high paying job with excellent benefits. Along the way they rack up college debt, and are deeply in debt before they ever get their first real job. The employee starts climbing the ladder, earning promotions and pay raises. They get married( usually) They buy a home, usually on a 30 year mortgage. They work harder. The kids arrive. Usually there's credit card and car payments, plus the mortgage and college debts. All of this is leverage to keep employees working hard, deep in debt. So what is the Trap? The typical hard-working successful employee will climb the corporate ladder and make their way into middle management with a good salary and benefits. What traps most employees is that their education( the college degree) has become old and outdated and they are very expensive to the company with their salary and benefits. They will be let go sometime between 40 & 60, replaced by a young fresh out of college graduate, or two, who will work for a fraction of the pay that the middle manager employee is being paid. The employees bills don't stop coming in though. Their bills start eating them alive, and they have to pull from retirement funds to cover what unemployment money won't. Now they realize that they need to get another job before they run out of money completely, but no company wants to pay a middle aged worker a manager level salary without a current degree. The age factor hurts also, because the company may only get ten to fifteen years of service from the older worker, versus 30-40 from a 25 year old. So the worker goes back to school while working low pay jobs until they can get a second degree that is current. I see people I know doing this now. Eventually the employee is too old to offer any upside to a company that is hiring. Most career employees have to sell their house to live after they lost their high paying job they could never get back. The best way to avoid this trap is ,well, most can't because they don't know any other way. I started my first business around age 30, and as long as my companies succeed, they will continue to pay me and my family for generations. I recommend people study business and how it works, to avoid a future where they stake their entire livelihood on a paycheck that could be taken away at any time. Sorry for the long post.

I guess it's really who you know
I have worked for this district for over four years now. I have started on my Master's degree to get a better position in the district. I have submitted an application for every position in this district that I am qualified for from the food service positions to the dean. I decided after never receiving a call to contact the temporary Superintendent to show how passionate I am about working with children she emailed me back the same day and asked what positions I had applied for. I sent her a list of every applied position this was over two months ago. I have emailed just to express me wanting to remain in the district and me returning to school. I have yet to receive a response. What do you all think?

Would you give a promotion
I don't understand how can somebody go on maternity leave for their wife having a baby take off 3 months come back to the job and get the lead position then his wife has another baby takes off another 3 months call us back and get promoted to Supervisor now here's the kicker why was off he got another job the first time he didn't like the job so he quit that job and came back nothing became lead second time he went and got a CDL was driving delivering chicken to Oklahoma Texas then like that job came back and now he's a supervisor and the manager knows that he had another job and he blatantly those it in our faces in the meetings about what he was off and wasn't working and tons of what he be in and what he was doing do you think that was right to hold the jobs for this one person I've been there 17 years I'm going to 18 years now as of today the 23rd

My biggest challenge I overcame at work was...
I never overcame the challenge! I wanted him to be proud of me,and think that I was the best thing that ever walked through the doors. I started at the bottom mudding up sanitary manholes,I broke records,Design made underground construction magazine, I ran the company and made millions! nope never overcame that challenge.

Climbing the Ladder at UPS
I heard once that most new UPS employees are required to start in warehouse and distribution before they can "earn their wings" to drive. Then from a driving position employees can move up into positions like; management, sales, IT, etc. Is this true? Im interested in applying for a logistics related position in sales, business development or corporate real estate management. I am based in Roswell, GA. just up from the road from corporate HQ and would like to take next steps in applying.

looking for growth
Looking for a company that I can grow with and in

What motivated me to come to work everyday was
Money . Being assistant manager was a $1 increase in hourly pay. Weigh the amount of work and stress in your decision-making before saying yes to the promotion, if offered. My manager was always off doing personal business and left me to unload a 800+ piece truck alone before I had to open the store alone. A better manager would have greatly improved my work life.

After the job
I am always looking for great opportunities in life and to grow my soul. With that being said even after I get the job or jobs I worked so hard to get I am always still looking for a better jobs and to better myself. Usually after 90 days on the job if no raise I move to a better paying job, I take it as the universe was using that job to train me for something better. When employers question my short time on jobs or reason for leaving I say to better myself all body, mind and soul. Great job hunting to you all folks