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comment by ButterflyEffect
ButterflyEffect  ·  1034 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 23, 2021

Our factory director wants to have a career development conversation with me to discuss what type of role I'd like to be in in the next 3-5 years, and how we can work to get me there. For the first time in a while, though, I don't have a great answer to what I'd like to do next. Over the past 30 months I've had 3 promotions, and "next" would either be a lateral move to another high-level technical role, or back to managing a team of supervisors or other salary employees, unless I wanted to branch off into something like program management. It's tough at this point with upward mobility, as there's only a small handful of management at the factory and they're all pretty well rooted right now, and factor in that I'm not interested in moving outside of the PNW. Not sure what to do or how to even prepare for this conversation, which is a change from the past!

Any tips, Hubski?