I like my job, the feedback I receive is good and bosses are happy with me and my work/life balance is fab (part time, working 4 days, 3 in the office).
However, over the course of the last year or two there have been several conversations about moving me up to the next grade/level if I did x, y, z. This is the problem, I don't want to push myself more to get promoted. I'm not interested in moving up to the next grade. There's no question about how I'm performing at this level - they all say I do more than enough - but they fail to see that I'm happy where I am.
My immediate boss is very ambitious, driven, her career is her life (emails being sent at 11/12pm, Sunday afternoons etc), holidays often cancelled. I know she finds it very hard to understand why I'm not like that - and I'm aware she sees it as a failure on my part. Yesterday she kept mentioning my children, saying they'd be 'off my hands' soon (two 14 year olds!), and what would I do then, now is the time to think about my career ......
I have hobbies, friends, two teens who do loads of sport/social stuff, an elderly mother/in laws. DH is running his own business which I could help more with if I had the time. I don't want to dedicate any more time to my 'career', if anything I'd like to do less! It's just a job to me, I do it well, I don't want promotion. I'm happy, leave me alone.
I seem to remember a thread like this recently but can't find it, but would appreciate views. Am I unmotivated and lack drive and ambition? I feel she almost pities me.
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Yet another work meeting where I'm made to feel a bit of a failure for not wanting promotion
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BigSandyBalls2015 · 10/11/2015 07:42
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