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TL/DR: Looking for work/new career path. Highly motivated and fast learner.
LONG:
Good afternoon, Ags.
I have an interesting path that has lead me here over the past few years. I worked in commercial real estate for a few years after graduating back in 2013 and did well but decided that was not the right fit for me. Took a job that I enjoyed doing quotations and sales for commercial plumbing wholesaler and was doing really well and saw myself being at that company for a long time.
After 4 years of that, my father was the owner of an engineer / survey company and was getting close to retirement. He tried to sell mutliple times but it kept falling through. I am a quick learner, great with numbers, and fairly business savy, so he offered me a job to come on and learn the ins and outs of the business, so that I could take over the business aspect while his right hand engineer and surveyor took a piece of the company and continued running those departments as part owner. They wanted nothing to do with the actual business/finance portions.
I took the job and within 6 months my father received an offer he couldn't refuse and he sold the company. I get it, I wasn't mad at all.
However, that left me in a vulnerable place. I was, however, an integral piece in all of the actual sale contract/details, negotiations, etc..and the new owners liked me so much that they wanted to keep me on as a project manager somewhere in the company.
They put me in the S.U.E. department to learn that side of the business and I really enjoyed it, however, after 6 months or so the Utility Coordination team needed help so they shifted me into that role. I enjoyed the coordination aspect but my boss was an older gentleman that was not very interested in actually teaching me what I needed to learn so it wasn't very enjoyable. After about another 6 months in that role, both of my bosses/senior coordinator left and took a job with our competitor.
They recently moved me into the LiDAR department and am getting rave reviews on how quick of a learner I am and how well I am picking up the job. However, the LiDAR manager didn't realize how much I was getting paid (managers type pay) before he took me on. He then went to the regional manager to ask if they can eat the costs for 6 months until I am ready to take over as Project Manager. (I also volunteered to reduce my pay until then but they said they didn't want to do that)
In that same timeframe, our regional manager and CEO that kept me on because they liked me so much, retired. We have had two new regional managers since, and I just semi-overheard a conversation with the new regional manager and my boss along the lines of not being able to make this work at my current salary. So it is not looking good.
So I am preparing for the worst and wanting to start looking at my options, seeing if anyone out there is hiring that can use my skills. Also looking for recommendations on new career path. I am interested in sales, procurement, project management, etc... I am willing to work hard and do anything to provide for my family young family of 4.
Thanks and Gig' em!
TL/DR: Looking for work/new career path. Highly motivated and fast learner.
LONG:
Good afternoon, Ags.
I have an interesting path that has lead me here over the past few years. I worked in commercial real estate for a few years after graduating back in 2013 and did well but decided that was not the right fit for me. Took a job that I enjoyed doing quotations and sales for commercial plumbing wholesaler and was doing really well and saw myself being at that company for a long time.
After 4 years of that, my father was the owner of an engineer / survey company and was getting close to retirement. He tried to sell mutliple times but it kept falling through. I am a quick learner, great with numbers, and fairly business savy, so he offered me a job to come on and learn the ins and outs of the business, so that I could take over the business aspect while his right hand engineer and surveyor took a piece of the company and continued running those departments as part owner. They wanted nothing to do with the actual business/finance portions.
I took the job and within 6 months my father received an offer he couldn't refuse and he sold the company. I get it, I wasn't mad at all.
However, that left me in a vulnerable place. I was, however, an integral piece in all of the actual sale contract/details, negotiations, etc..and the new owners liked me so much that they wanted to keep me on as a project manager somewhere in the company.
They put me in the S.U.E. department to learn that side of the business and I really enjoyed it, however, after 6 months or so the Utility Coordination team needed help so they shifted me into that role. I enjoyed the coordination aspect but my boss was an older gentleman that was not very interested in actually teaching me what I needed to learn so it wasn't very enjoyable. After about another 6 months in that role, both of my bosses/senior coordinator left and took a job with our competitor.
They recently moved me into the LiDAR department and am getting rave reviews on how quick of a learner I am and how well I am picking up the job. However, the LiDAR manager didn't realize how much I was getting paid (managers type pay) before he took me on. He then went to the regional manager to ask if they can eat the costs for 6 months until I am ready to take over as Project Manager. (I also volunteered to reduce my pay until then but they said they didn't want to do that)
In that same timeframe, our regional manager and CEO that kept me on because they liked me so much, retired. We have had two new regional managers since, and I just semi-overheard a conversation with the new regional manager and my boss along the lines of not being able to make this work at my current salary. So it is not looking good.
So I am preparing for the worst and wanting to start looking at my options, seeing if anyone out there is hiring that can use my skills. Also looking for recommendations on new career path. I am interested in sales, procurement, project management, etc... I am willing to work hard and do anything to provide for my family young family of 4.
Thanks and Gig' em!
