Work News

My department at work is made up of a few different teams...I am a part of the Medical Records Team, there's Data Entry, Vet. Service Representatives, etc. One of the Vet. Service Representatives applied to and got a job in the Marketing Department helping with promotional items and such. (From what I am told, the Marketing Department desperately needs someone from the vet world because some of their materials are misleading.) Anyway, so her leaving left an open position. A Vet. Service Representative has several functions: they have a call queue, where they answer calls from policy holders and hospitals, helping with claims and such, they are assigned hospitals, so they do visits to represent the company and several other little things. On Friday, my boss announced that one of the girls that was hired with me, on the Medial Records Team, will be promoted as a Vet. Service Representative and beginning April 1st, will be a full-time (non temp, like we are now) employee with benefits...and I am guessing a nice raise as well.

Learning this has caused some mixed emotions. I am very happy for my coworker, she is leaving in a few weeks to have a baby and I know she needs this new position and benefits. It will be good for her to have more money and health insurance with the baby coming...and since she just went through a divorce and the dad's not in the picture.

I am also a little jealous. Not because of the position, because honestly, I don't think being a Vet. Service Representative would be a good fit for me. That and I don't have the necessary experience. The girl that got the job has been a vet tech for 8 years, I was a receptionist at a hospital for 2 years. I guess I am jealous because I would love to have that full time, benefits position. And while my boss says that everyone is happy with the work my team is doing, including the CEO, I am still a little concerned that they won't like us enough to keep us around, which leads me to something else...

I've been asked if my job doesn't stick around, can I move to a diff. position? Well, as far as I can tell, no. I could do data entry, which is the position I originally applied for almost 2 years go, but as my boss as said, I am over qualified for that position. Any of the other departments that I might have interest in, such as Claims and Underwriting, need vet tech experience.

I am slowly beginning to realize that at some point, more than likely, I will feel stuck in my job once again. It's not because I don't like this job or what I am doing. I really enjoy it. But, at the same time, I personally know that I am over qualified for this position and it's just not as challenging and exciting as I would like it to be. The other day I mentioned that I kind of missed being a manager...I don't necessarily miss the responsibility that being a manager brings, but I miss having a hand in the way things are run. I was a manager/supervisor for 3 years prior to this job and it's been a little bit of a struggle to let go of control. This is also a reminder of how I just don't fit in with any niche in the job world.

While at lunch on Friday, my boss came up behind me and kinda hugged me and said something to the affect of that she didn't pick one of us other the other because we weren't good, but that this girl was really just over qualified for her current position, which I understand. And it did strike me as odd that she hugged me. Maybe my face was telling more than I thought it was?

Music: Ray Charles - Drown in my Own Tears