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16-05-2002, 10:39
It's being one of those days, again. B'ah!
Anyways, your help and overwhelming knowledge is required... Basically, I'm something of an oddjob at the moment.
I work in the headquarters of an International Christian denomination, which until recently was a superb atmosphere, and generally a pleasant enough place to work. My work mainly centred around Accounts/Insurance matters, I'm also as good an IT manager as they're going to have (Responsible for first line support, backups, blahdiblah..) and seeing as I'm the heftiest bloke in the office, I also get lumbered with the heavy lifting when it's required.
Now, this is all well and good, but the new Director of Finance (almost laughing whilst considering his title..) is a bit of a prat, to say the least. He's come in, he has NO financial or management qualifications AT ALL... and he's basically, stirring everything up, trying to do things his way, and he's causing one heck of an upheaval amounst the staff. He isn't liked, and generally, he doesn't have a blind clue what's meant to be going on, changing things willynilly, confusing us, and ultimately, spending a LOT of the organisations money on acheiving sod all.
A few examples...
We bought a document management scanner, new server machine to run alongside our existing server, and five new desktop machines to begin the phasing out of older and more decrepid machines..
My opinion is asked (which was nice.) and I told him what we would need and so forth. He then, quite openly does his own thing.
The new desktops are... useless. Well, they're fine enough machines (Dell black-cased efforts.) but.. the monitors that came with them are smaller than the monitors they've replaced, upsetting a few staff who had their big monitors snatched away when they weren't paying attention... We're a finance department, and the new machines.... won't run Sage in DOS!.. magical... Pentium 4's are incompatible with Sage in DOS mode, anyone who works with sage can verify that the half-assed Windows version is useless..
The server machine... all well and good.. however, we've had to purchase £420 worth of DDS4 tapes to use with it, as surprise surprise, the old tapes were DDS3 and we couldn't get them to work...
The five figure document management software and scanner hasn't even been touched once as far as I know in the 2 months it's been here.. :rolleyes:
And so forth..
But anyways, now to the real dilema.. Pretty much, as staff, we've had it, the lady I share an office with has had enough, and is pretty much victimised along with two other gals along the corridor.
However, I'm generally a nervous wreck when it comes to even contemplating steps into the unknown, blahdiblah. I need (not want.) to change jobs.. but to what?
I've never known what I wanted to be, become, or do, and to this very day, I'm unsure as to what I want to do, or even, could do..
I have only my GCSE's to my name (9 A-C's), I dropped out of my A-levels/Adv. GNVQ, and am currently falling behind with the first part of an Open Uni degree..
I've thought of teaching, but in needing the full time salary, I'm having to do my degree the part-time Open Uni route which will take umpteen years.. Strong line of teachers throughout my family, and it's the one possible career move that's remained a constant throughout all my thought, but it raises the question, would I be any good at it.. Possibly, but heck, who knows.
I enjoy computers, and I do find the IT part of my job more fun than the clerical side, but as far as a career path, I just simply wouldn't want it.
Writing and music are passions, but I doubt my skill. Music is a passtime and shall remain on that level. Writing is something I cannot force, and in a dead-line driven environment I think I would come a cropper due to this.
Basically, I'm stuck. I know not what I wish to do, what I can do, all I know is, that I need to get out of here (Oh, the cliche..)..
Any thoughts, advice or ideas? I'm feeling a bit lost, here lads.
Cheers.
Anyways, your help and overwhelming knowledge is required... Basically, I'm something of an oddjob at the moment.
I work in the headquarters of an International Christian denomination, which until recently was a superb atmosphere, and generally a pleasant enough place to work. My work mainly centred around Accounts/Insurance matters, I'm also as good an IT manager as they're going to have (Responsible for first line support, backups, blahdiblah..) and seeing as I'm the heftiest bloke in the office, I also get lumbered with the heavy lifting when it's required.
Now, this is all well and good, but the new Director of Finance (almost laughing whilst considering his title..) is a bit of a prat, to say the least. He's come in, he has NO financial or management qualifications AT ALL... and he's basically, stirring everything up, trying to do things his way, and he's causing one heck of an upheaval amounst the staff. He isn't liked, and generally, he doesn't have a blind clue what's meant to be going on, changing things willynilly, confusing us, and ultimately, spending a LOT of the organisations money on acheiving sod all.
A few examples...
We bought a document management scanner, new server machine to run alongside our existing server, and five new desktop machines to begin the phasing out of older and more decrepid machines..
My opinion is asked (which was nice.) and I told him what we would need and so forth. He then, quite openly does his own thing.
The new desktops are... useless. Well, they're fine enough machines (Dell black-cased efforts.) but.. the monitors that came with them are smaller than the monitors they've replaced, upsetting a few staff who had their big monitors snatched away when they weren't paying attention... We're a finance department, and the new machines.... won't run Sage in DOS!.. magical... Pentium 4's are incompatible with Sage in DOS mode, anyone who works with sage can verify that the half-assed Windows version is useless..
The server machine... all well and good.. however, we've had to purchase £420 worth of DDS4 tapes to use with it, as surprise surprise, the old tapes were DDS3 and we couldn't get them to work...
The five figure document management software and scanner hasn't even been touched once as far as I know in the 2 months it's been here.. :rolleyes:
And so forth..
But anyways, now to the real dilema.. Pretty much, as staff, we've had it, the lady I share an office with has had enough, and is pretty much victimised along with two other gals along the corridor.
However, I'm generally a nervous wreck when it comes to even contemplating steps into the unknown, blahdiblah. I need (not want.) to change jobs.. but to what?
I've never known what I wanted to be, become, or do, and to this very day, I'm unsure as to what I want to do, or even, could do..
I have only my GCSE's to my name (9 A-C's), I dropped out of my A-levels/Adv. GNVQ, and am currently falling behind with the first part of an Open Uni degree..
I've thought of teaching, but in needing the full time salary, I'm having to do my degree the part-time Open Uni route which will take umpteen years.. Strong line of teachers throughout my family, and it's the one possible career move that's remained a constant throughout all my thought, but it raises the question, would I be any good at it.. Possibly, but heck, who knows.
I enjoy computers, and I do find the IT part of my job more fun than the clerical side, but as far as a career path, I just simply wouldn't want it.
Writing and music are passions, but I doubt my skill. Music is a passtime and shall remain on that level. Writing is something I cannot force, and in a dead-line driven environment I think I would come a cropper due to this.
Basically, I'm stuck. I know not what I wish to do, what I can do, all I know is, that I need to get out of here (Oh, the cliche..)..
Any thoughts, advice or ideas? I'm feeling a bit lost, here lads.
Cheers.