Sherb
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- Dec 26, 2010
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For those asking why my presence here has dropped a bit.
In typical @Sherb fashion, I have left my cushy analytics job to pursue digital marketing full time, but with lessened risk.
How?
I was starting to get depressed and feeling miserable about the workload that was being pushed on our department. It resulted in 55-60+ hour work weeks just in my day job, which severely cut into the time available to work on growing my businesses.
If you've seen any of my threads on value and time and productivity, you know the phrase I spout ever so often: Put a value on your time. I was feeling undervalued.
I turned down a Director of SEO role to take the analytics job I was in, simply because the pay was higher and benefits far greater, and I saw much more opportunity for growth. As time went on, our departmental culture became one of people-pleasing. While there was nothing wrong with that, it takes a toll on anything done outside of the workplace, and leads to mistakes within the workplace with tasks are being juggled.
I spoke with my manager about six weeks ago, and she gave me her blessing to look in other departments. As it turned out, a digital marketing specialist role had opened in a department that works closely with my own.
I jumped at the chance. Blazed through the interviews, and as an internal candidate who had worked a good bit with my potential new team, was fast tracked with a raise in the process. I'm still transitioning into this new role, but I already love it, and will be working plenty with my old department, but without the added stress of the long hours and demanding task load.
After 11 years of the "grind on the side", I'm finally going to be paid a great, stable salary to do what I truly enjoy. I'll be able to embrace the IM life with a skillset that has been taught to me in a large part to the things learned here on Black Hat World.
I firmly believe that if not for the connections, networking, and knowledge that this site has provided me over the 11 years I have been lurking, contributing and debating with all of you, I would not be in the position I am in now.
So thanks for that.
Be humble for you are made of earth; be noble for you are made of stars.
-SH
In typical @Sherb fashion, I have left my cushy analytics job to pursue digital marketing full time, but with lessened risk.
How?
I was starting to get depressed and feeling miserable about the workload that was being pushed on our department. It resulted in 55-60+ hour work weeks just in my day job, which severely cut into the time available to work on growing my businesses.
If you've seen any of my threads on value and time and productivity, you know the phrase I spout ever so often: Put a value on your time. I was feeling undervalued.
I turned down a Director of SEO role to take the analytics job I was in, simply because the pay was higher and benefits far greater, and I saw much more opportunity for growth. As time went on, our departmental culture became one of people-pleasing. While there was nothing wrong with that, it takes a toll on anything done outside of the workplace, and leads to mistakes within the workplace with tasks are being juggled.
I spoke with my manager about six weeks ago, and she gave me her blessing to look in other departments. As it turned out, a digital marketing specialist role had opened in a department that works closely with my own.
I jumped at the chance. Blazed through the interviews, and as an internal candidate who had worked a good bit with my potential new team, was fast tracked with a raise in the process. I'm still transitioning into this new role, but I already love it, and will be working plenty with my old department, but without the added stress of the long hours and demanding task load.
After 11 years of the "grind on the side", I'm finally going to be paid a great, stable salary to do what I truly enjoy. I'll be able to embrace the IM life with a skillset that has been taught to me in a large part to the things learned here on Black Hat World.
I firmly believe that if not for the connections, networking, and knowledge that this site has provided me over the 11 years I have been lurking, contributing and debating with all of you, I would not be in the position I am in now.
So thanks for that.
Be humble for you are made of earth; be noble for you are made of stars.
-SH
