Hope you can help me. I'm in a bit of a quandary. I had a meeting with my boss, who is on the whole very supportive, about my training and development. I work for a media company on the editorial side but mostly project management and a bit of writing.
She's always encouraged about thinking about the managerial side of things and its always kind of appealed to me. (i love bossing people ha, ha) But I've had the opportunity to work more on the editorial side, writing articles etc... and I feel more passionate about this than going into a managerial role.
When we had a meeting last week about my training needs, she asked about my long term career goals and I was honest with her saying I felt my goals had changed in recent months and that I wasn't sure the managerial route was what I wanted to go down and that I possibly wanted to move back to my home country to specialise in covering that region.
She was going to send me on a management training course, but that won't now happen, and we identified other courses that would suit my career plan.
The nagging worrying feeling I have is that maybe I've shot myself in the foot by showing too much of my hand as I don't want to be sidelined for any opportunities for promotion that might come up in the department. She mentioned herself she was trying to get a deputy role signed off for our (very small) department and that it would be a management role, which suggests she may not now consider me for this role. I also don't want her to maybe tell other senior management that I'm not going to be around or not committed to the company.
I mean it's a 5 year plan and not something I intend to act on now. Will this honesty completely sideline me? Am I being paranoid? I told her specifically that I still love what I do and that these were long term goals.
Hope all this makes sense. Thank you for reading so far