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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2012 8:08:29 GMT -5
wait, so do you have a permanent position where you are? Where I was before or where I am now? I like my official "home store" because it is 5 minutes from my apartment (one of the reason I was ok with getting the apartment on main st). The new store I am at now I love because of the management team they have there and also the people: they are awesome. Also the store manager is amazing and I am not ashame to admit I have a man crush on him lol. We disagree on certain ways to go about running the store but besides that we get along great. For me this store would be better professionally. He has been a store manager for my company for 26 years during wich 5 of his past co-managers became or are now store managers (including the one I am covering for); and our Zone Director (or District Manager) used to be his co-manager also. So he has a proven tract record in giving you the training/mentorship you need to take you to the next level. And he is more my style: no yelling, no big ego, no big head or being a dictator/tyrant. Most store managers (including some co-managers) tend to be all the above because within those 4 walls they are the BOSS (that is untill the Zone Director, Regional Vice President or Vice President of Operations walks in which is not often) and sometimes it changes them. I've seen great co-managers turn into complete dicks when they become store managers. So in the long run I can see myself being happier working for him (even with the 2 hours round trip drive) and also benefit me professionally (becoming a store manager withing the next 3-5 years). Long Story short : My Regional Vice President, Zone Director, HR person and him are quite aware that I intend to apply for this position once they post it; getting it is another story. If I don't get it, life continues and I go back to driving 5 minutes to work ;D
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Wisconsin Beth
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jun 13, 2012 8:09:30 GMT -5
Carl, good luck with the musical stores. My brother worked his way up from stocker to manager for a drugstore chain. I remember the moving stores period. He moved a lot because they used him as a hatchet man to clean up personnel issues. Not that you're in that position (or maybe you are, it's not like I'd know!) Anyway, good luck with getting a store in an area that's going to be good for you and the Mrs.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2012 8:27:36 GMT -5
Carl, good luck with the musical stores. My brother worked his way up from stocker to manager for a drugstore chain. I remember the moving stores period. He moved a lot because they used him as a hatchet man to clean up personnel issues. Not that you're in that position (or maybe you are, it's not like I'd know!) Anyway, good luck with getting a store in an area that's going to be good for you and the Mrs. Thank you. I fully intent to play the musical chair game till I can't no more. I know our parents and my wife hates it but the sad trutch is I would not have gone from being a part time night crew clerk on Jan 2009 to now co-manager in 2012 if I did not tell them straight up: just give me 2 weeks notice to inform my wife and we are good to go. My old boss just got promoted to Zone Director and told me: I will keep my eye open for you and if in 3-5 years she calls and tell me she wants me to be a store manager in her zone, I will be packing. Those in my company that refuse to move or have to stay local are the ones that cover the same position for 10-20 years before getting promotoed. All the others that are willing to get in front of the line; I guess it is a quite pro quo. What are willing to do for me? I don't want to be a co-manager for 10-20 years waiting for someone in my zone to retire, die or get fired before I can get promoted to store manager. I will move to Vermon or New Hampshire if that is what it takes. My end goal personally is either Regional Vice President (there is only 3 so the competition will befierce if a position ever opens up in my lifetime or Zone Director of which we have 9 or 10). But lately I have been battling with the "is it worth it" syndrome. My wife wants to settle down, establish roots, etc and I am just getting started and in the "don't unpack everything, we don't know when we will need to move again" phase. I honest to GOD love what I do, love the challenges, the good, the bad and everything that comes with it. A part time gig, a way to make money to survive turned into a career and I want to ride it till the bitter end... I am just worried about how much sacrifice it will take. Personally I draw the line at missing my kids childhood and fucking up my marriage, but how do you know when you are crossing that line? Or do you know only when it is too late? No one ever said that climbing the ladder was ever easy!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2012 8:34:30 GMT -5
As long as you and DW keep the lines of communication open you should be OK. A decision on when you stop your "ride" doesn't have to be made right this instant.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2012 8:55:54 GMT -5
Carl, you are fortunate that you are in the position to move around (no kids, no owned home). Before DS came along DH was looking at and applying for jobs across the country. But now that we have DS, we want him to know the rest of his family and go to school here. And now that we bought the house, we're more or less stuck here. DH has been looking for supervisory/management jobs in academic IT, but nothing has panned out. I'm looking for better opportunities at my company, but again, there are limited opportunities for us right now.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2012 9:04:34 GMT -5
Carl, you are fortunate that you are in the position to move around (no kids, no owned home). Before DS came along DH was looking at and applying for jobs across the country. But now that we have DS, we want him to know the rest of his family and go to school here. And now that we bought the house, we're more or less stuck here. DH has been looking for supervisory/management jobs in academic IT, but nothing has panned out. I'm looking for better opportunities at my company, but again, there are limited opportunities for us right now. You think we are fortunate while my wife would think that you are fortunate. She wants what you have: house, kid, somewhere she can settle down, etc. She wants to have "Roots" she says and in the past 4 years we have moved 4 times.
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