Everything is Changing.
Posted on February 10, 2008 by Brian under Life.
Well for those of you that do not already know, I got a new job. If you don’t know why then let me give you a little back story.
Several months ago I was told by the company I worked for that there was a cap on Contractor Employment. Now this was not disclosed to me when I started, I was simply told that the contract would continually renew and I had nothing to worry about. However, this was not the case. There was indeed a cap on Contractor employment and I was unfortunately reaching the end of my time with the company. Now, just for a little mystery to this story, I learned in the time I had left that there were several people in the organization that had been contractors before me and they were there longer than 3 years! So this means that the cap is something recent that they failed to communicate to the rest of the Contractors, or the cap just involved me and I am just the biggest sucker in the world for believing it and not putting up a fight. Now, I didn’t exactly just lay down and die, no, I tried to get a position within the company. Unfortunately, I was told at every opportunity that there were no positions available. Yet I watched all my friends get promoted around me. Even as I was leaving I was told by one of my good friends that they were given there offer letter. This was un-nerving to me and I felt betrayed by the company and people that I had come to admire and love working for. It made me feel like I was nothing to them and that they just saw me as some tool to be used and discarded.
My new job is with a company called Viega! They are a plumbing and heating company from Germany. They have been in business for over a hundred years and are now expanding there market into the United States. To give you a little detail on how I got the job, I simply applied for it on Career Builder. I was applying for just about anything because I was wanting to make sure that I had something lined up before I got laid-off. I figured anything would be better than nothing, but for the first time in my life every opportunity that came around was met with the same response after the interview, “We feel that you are over qualified for this position”. I had never got that before. I was always met with, the standard weed out messages or the no reply at all process. I finally get a call from Viega and I had forgot all about applying for there position. I was a little surprised and accepted the interview.
I showed up for my interview and was met with nothing but kindness and accepting people. They were very outgoing and eager to hear about my experience. After a few weeks I heard back from them and they wanted to offer me the position. I was excited but a little worried about the job because I did not know how to operate the systems that they use. I was told by my new boss that I would be trained on everything and that I would not have to worry about the lack of knowledge because they would work very hard to get me up to speed. The company is very exciting and they are growing larger and larger every day. I am still a little worried about my job because I do not completely grasp what it is that I am exactly supposed to do. I assume I will learn as time goes on but its a little unsettling to not know. I am a control freak and I like to have insight into the direction that I am going in life and currently I have none.
As of 2/11/08 I will be making my way to New Hampshire for training on my new job. I assume that I will travel a little in the beginnig because my boss is based out of New Hampshire and I will be based out of Wichita. With technology the way it is this shouldn’t be too much of a problem. I am not looking forward to the traveling because I am one of those people that find traveling to be a hassle and try to avoid it as much as possible. My wife is the traveler in the house, she loves to travel. If it were up to me I would never leave my house. I would have a job that I could work from home, I would have a nice house and never leave. I have everything that I desire here at my house. I have my movies, games, cats and dog and most important, my wife!
I hope that everything works out with this new job, I am sure that after this week I will have a better understanding of what I am going to be doing but we will see. Like I said before, this seems to be a great company and I am looking forward to the new start, but I am not looking forward to the travel. I will always be looking for that perfect job (I am hoping that my wife will be getting promoted at her work and then I can apply for her job) I know that its out there, this is not the job that I want to do for the rest of my life. This is just another job to pay the bills. Maybe I will get lucky and win the lottery, then I can just spend my time helping people and spend time with my wife and make her happy.
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