{"id":46246,"date":"2018-10-08T23:51:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T03:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46246"},"modified":"2020-08-08T23:51:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T03:51:14","slug":"my-first-ever-official-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46246","title":{"rendered":"My first-ever official promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Effective today, I\u2019ve just received my first ever promotion at work.\u00a0 It sounds like something that probably should have happened at least a few times in my career, given the fact that I\u2019ve been working as a graphic designer for nearly two decades, but seriously, this is the first time that I\u2019ve ever received a promotion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Typically in the past, if I ever wanted to pursue more money or actually advance my career out of complacency, the onus has really been on me to usually leave a place and seek out employment somewhere else, where I\u2019d make more money and\/or get a better title along the way.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never really taken titles seriously nor have I ever really feared about starting at the ground level, so despite my long career, I\u2019ve bounced around a good bit, needless to say.<\/span><\/p>\n

But considering that I like my job, the company I work for and (generally) the team I\u2019m on, when an opportunity arose for me to advance internally, I thought about it for a minute and had one of those brief moments of soul-searching and realization that this was the perfect opportunity to actually-really-truly take my career seriously in a long-term and sustainable manner.\u00a0 It took a little bit of time going through the interviewing and selection process, but I was pretty stoked when it turned out that I was the guy chosen to advance up the ladder.<\/span><\/p>\n

So today marks the first day of work; in a new role.\u00a0 It\u2019s a new experience for me as instead of an office full of new faces, it\u2019s an office full of familiar faces, except that I\u2019m under a different title, new role, and actually have reports that I\u2019ll eventually be fully responsible for.\u00a0 I know there are a lot more meetings and emails and other Office Space-<\/em>y things that go along with a corporate gig, but I\u2019m also making more money, have some better benefits, and at a point in my life where I realize that I\u2019m not getting any younger and should probably start taking the future seriously, I feel like I\u2019ve taken a positive step in the right direction.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Needless to say, my writing habits have been really sporadic and inconsistent over the last few months, not that anyone can see offline-brogging in the first place, but that\u2019s entirely been on account of the fact that I\u2019ve been working my ass off in order to justify my claim to the promotion that I got to those who would be making the decision.\u00a0 And as much as I treasure my writing time, it was clearly the right call to bust my ass and be proactive and inclusive to all challenges and tasks in order to look good at work.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who really knows how this is going to affect my personal life, as there\u2019s definitely an expectation that this is going to noticeably tweak the \u2018ol work\/life balance.\u00a0 But when the day is over, I feel that I made the right call, and I\u2019m ready to accept all of the challenges and adjustments that my promotion is going to be putting in front of me, and who knows if this first promotion is going to ignite a taste for more advancement in the even further future?<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, I savor my triumph today, and am genuinely excited for what the future holds for me professionally, and hope that it also affects things positively, personally as well.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Effective today, I\u2019ve just received my first ever promotion at work.\u00a0 It sounds like something that probably should have happened at least a few times in my career, given the fact that I\u2019ve been working as a graphic designer for nearly two decades, but seriously, this is the first time that I\u2019ve ever received a … Continue reading My first-ever official promotion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,37,52],"class_list":["post-46246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-job","tag-owned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46248,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46246\/revisions\/46248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}