I've worked in a small charity for almost 20 years, previously in a few other related settings. I worked my way up in my present workplace to a senior role which I've been doing for about 10 years. I'm also a board member for a larger charity but its early days. In my current role my duties are very broad including HR, fundraising, developing programmes, safeguarding, line management- the lot! We have a mostly corporate board who I feel don't really understand the complexities of what we do and never give praise, it's always what we haven't done, not what we've achieved! We have a Chair who is really full on and I feel speaks down to me. For example, I explained something about how charity funding works and they refused to take my points on board. When another board member agreed with my point who also works for a charity, she said it was great to get true insight from them! I'm really struggling, feel I'm no good at any particular thing and I'm starting to get to the point in any meetings I'm stressing so much about what I'm going to say that the moment passes and I say nothing. I've had no appraisal for 10 years, work loads of overtime with no recognition and deal with a lot of staff problems. I'd like to move on but have serious imposter syndrome, I look at LinkedIn and feel like I'm not in on the secret that everyone else is or something. Any advice would be most welcome!
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