I started working at a new place on 2013 after leaving my previous employer of eight years. In the eight years, I went from an hourly team member to department manager within a year because they wanted to promote hard workers. Makes sense. After reaching that department manager level, the promise of promotion and training was always there, it just never came to be. And I wrote about this when I went to my new employer. You can only deal with so many blocks in the road before you give up on trying to move up the ladder.
So I took my work experience to a new place. A smaller company at the store level and as a whole. It is much more my speed. I moved from one department to another after a year and a half overseeing the former. And to no one's surprise, I absolutely CRUSHED IT in my new department. No hubris, it's straight facts. And within less than a year of running my new department, I was given a new opportunity.
A promotion! I am now a supervisor within my store. I will be overseeing the logistics processes of our store. My brain is wired for it. I jokingly say the German part of my brain has taken over and will be compartmentalizing everything and keeping it all in line and in order. This opportunity kinda fell into my lap as the previous supervisor moved away. But I have earned the opportunity through hard work, which is how it should be, yes? Promote based on experience and work ethic. That's what I think.
Like I said, I look at my work path in retail as humorous. I never really thought it would end up being a bit of a career. But I've been at it for twelve years or there abouts. And after all this time, I have been given a leadership chance. Which my wife jokes is scary because 'they know it's you, right?'
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