OT: Career advice Part II

[will1066]

First day at new place tomorrow, less than 24 hours, back in an office environment, after 5 years at home. Like turning back the clock. I'm grateful to be working, but this is gonna be an adjustment. And I have to drive by the old place as I get to the new place, as it's just down the road lol.

 

[will1066]

I have 27 years experience as a IT Business Analyst, Data Analyst, QA Tester, Project Coordination, Project Management - both Waterfall and Agile, and SCRUM. Unfortunately, I've been pigeonholed as having work in banking.

As for other areas - smaller cities with less uncontrolled growth. These places like Charlotte and Raleigh become absolutely awful and overly competitive and make New Yorkers/New Jerseyans look Minnesota nice.

Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky
Knoxville, TN
The Beach, NC

Honestly, things are extremely expensive down here - I MIGHT even consider moving back up to the NYC area if and only if, the package was worth it. The only real difference now are property taxes.

It's chaotic. There are so many opinions on the world of work and where it's going. It's scary, tbh. I think it's tough right now to switch fields and industries (my opinion). Employers want people with industry knowledge and experience to get going fast, and, for lack of better term, they have their pick of the litter with so many candidates applying.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I was debating about whether I should share this but everyone here knows I'm a crazy person already so not like y'all opinions of me can get any worse, lol.

So remember that contract job I got hired for? I got a call from the recruiter and kaput they terminated my contract 1 week in.

Their complaints:

1) I asked about WFH every day.

2) There was a lot of work and I was on my phone all the time and the work wasn't getting done as a result.

3) I left my computer on with sensitive material when I left.

My responses:

1) I asked about whether it was Hybrid was told to go to a particular person, I went to that person she told me to bring it up with the CFO in person, I brought it up with the CFO and he was very annoyed and told me to worry about the job. The recruiter never made it clear I got an email that said:

Ask for XXXX at Working in the office Mon-Thurs 9-5 Fri 9-1

While that points to it being onsite I felt that was ambiguous enough to confirm and people were working from home Thursday and Friday.

2) I won't say I was perfect with my phone but like 90% of my usage was when I had downtime. A few times I finished what I was doing and was told by the person whom I shared my deliverable with they were busy. So I had downtime and I was on my phone. As far as work not being done, I did everything I was given, perhaps there was more to be done and maybe I should have risked being annoying and asked but there was absolutely no work delegated to me that I didn't finish, much less not finish because I was on my phone.

3) Sure I should have locked the screen, but it seems a lot more appropriate just to tell me to.

All in all, it seems disproportionate to get fired ONE week in over this. I feel like having it be open ended the guy was treating me as a trial subscription to the New York Times. I had a contract role before that I was in over my head in because I had no background in project management and even there they kept me on for months and when they terminated my contract I go an offer in a different department through the end of the contract.