vetusvates
Gamaliel's Principle
Big ((((hugs)))), girlie.
Don't even get me started with rotten bosses and being under-appreciated.
Over-edumacated and under-paid has felt like the story of my life.
Supervisors resent you when you are more educated or smarter than they are.
I worked as a degreed professional (medical technologist) in a hospital for 12 years. Watching brown-nosers advance, while I (the only one of 2 or 3 among 100 in the lab with more than one college degree) was brow-beaten for thinking outside the box and daring to be more than a direction-following non-question-asking hospital lab robot.
There has been frustration and tears, over the years, and even a period in the mid to late 1990's when I became very very disillusioned, cynical, and depressed.
There are formal Corporate Psychology courses and seminars across the land, in which hospital (and other corporate) administrators are taught and groomed on everything from how to milk the most amount of work for the least amount of pay...to how to fire....to how to let employee morale ebb to such a low that by attrition people will become depressed and quit to seek work elsewhere...so that by that route 2 can be made to do the job that 3 once did. Depressing?...Yes. Real?...Yes. Does it have to ruin your life?...No.
I was 39 before, after a second career change, I found myself with some upward mobility indeed it was based on smarts, savvy, and how hard one worked. Now at 47 I have been in the position of being the/a boss for 5 years. And the greatest pleasure I take is doing for my employees all that was never done for me...and NOT doing all the mean things that WERE done to me.
Today there are good days and bad days, and ups and downs in my profession, but as one gets older and able to look over a larger period of time, the immediate things seem smaller in comparison.
Don't even get me started with rotten bosses and being under-appreciated.
Over-edumacated and under-paid has felt like the story of my life.
Supervisors resent you when you are more educated or smarter than they are.
I worked as a degreed professional (medical technologist) in a hospital for 12 years. Watching brown-nosers advance, while I (the only one of 2 or 3 among 100 in the lab with more than one college degree) was brow-beaten for thinking outside the box and daring to be more than a direction-following non-question-asking hospital lab robot.
There has been frustration and tears, over the years, and even a period in the mid to late 1990's when I became very very disillusioned, cynical, and depressed.
There are formal Corporate Psychology courses and seminars across the land, in which hospital (and other corporate) administrators are taught and groomed on everything from how to milk the most amount of work for the least amount of pay...to how to fire....to how to let employee morale ebb to such a low that by attrition people will become depressed and quit to seek work elsewhere...so that by that route 2 can be made to do the job that 3 once did. Depressing?...Yes. Real?...Yes. Does it have to ruin your life?...No.
I was 39 before, after a second career change, I found myself with some upward mobility indeed it was based on smarts, savvy, and how hard one worked. Now at 47 I have been in the position of being the/a boss for 5 years. And the greatest pleasure I take is doing for my employees all that was never done for me...and NOT doing all the mean things that WERE done to me.
Today there are good days and bad days, and ups and downs in my profession, but as one gets older and able to look over a larger period of time, the immediate things seem smaller in comparison.
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