I realy find your questions strange, very strange that you even posted it on this list. Were you fixed on this job? If not then you saw the job, read the requirements, read the qualification and applied for it. You were interviewed and during the interview am sure the interviewer asked you why you wanted to take the job and you gave your reasons... probably the interviewer further briefed you on your deliverables for that job, you went ahead to accept. What shocks me further is the fact that you joined as Management Trainee and you are asking for an Engineer role?... I know MTs are required to be all rounded before being posted to a particular department. Am going to give you a life time solution, 1. Focus - Know what you want, how you want it and when you want it 2. Passion - discover what you are passionate about... is it Sys Admin, is it Dev, or is it Management... build your skills arround it 3. Patience - if you are focused and found a job you are passionate about please be patient, it takes time to get there. A regular commercial aeroplane pilot flies for 20+ years before he is recognised as a captain despite all his/her training. Kind regards, On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Simon Mbuthia <simon.mbuthia@gmail.com>wrote:
Hi guys,
I got this job last month in a certain financial institution which is not so big. There are two of us in the IT department, and my partner is not so experienced (I can tell he has limited knowledge in IT, with all due respect to him). I joined as a management trainee, but there is nothing I am learning from my partner. All I have learnt is to do End of Day and Start of Day procedures on the core banking system. On windows administration, I can do a better job that what's been done here. Anyway, I don't mean to crioticize my employer, but I just feel that this job isn't challenging enough. I have sought advice from a few friends, some tell me to move on and others tell me to wait until my probation is over, which sounds logical, but I feel like waiting for my probation to be over would be a waste of time because I am not really building on any experience and besides, I had to stop attending classes for CCNA that I had registered for because I leave work at about 6:30 PM. We'll soon be moving to Westlands, which would mean taking longer to get home, or less time for my studies and stuff like that. So now what do the skunks have to say?
Thanks in advance :)
Me.
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