Last year I landed my dream job in my dream company. I’m 49. Lovely team, amazing boss, all good. It used all my skills and I took on extra training in my own time to improve other things.
it turned out there was a gap in our output and my lovely boss suggested I could be the one to do that. I launched myself into it with all my enthusiasm, training myself up on the side. But now the role has changed so much that it no longer uses any of my skills. Instead, it requires totally different skills that I don’t have.
i can’t be too specific but it’s like I was hired to be a plumber, then asked to do a spot of minor plastering, and now my job is suddenly all plastering.
I don’t mind learning new skills but there’s been no mention of training. I’m not churlish enough to use my hours (I’m part time) for all that training, so I’m doing stuff in my own time.
I think what I’m most struggling with is that I no longer feel I’m doing a good job, and no longer think I’m the best person for this role. I look at established plasterers and think it would make more sense for this company just to hire one of them.
What do I do? I’m stressed and upset. My boss is great and doesn’t expect me to be a great plasterer, but how long before he realises he needs a plasterer, and gently gets rid of me? 😢