A surprising new twist to the grand scheme of thing – MY Grand Scheme of Things! What I had initially thought to be a very simple and straight forward affair is slowly turning out to be anything but simple and straight forward.
A colleague of mine managed to information across that they plan to hire a new guy for their side. Well, basically our small local department has two main groups, the Applications group and the Proposals group. I’m in the Applications group, which is where we churn out the cheese for the customer to munch on, from the milk the Proposal people get from the cows supplied by the customer. A bit crude, I suppose, but that quite describes what I do, in a nutshell cow-farm. So, apparently they intend to hire a freshie for the job of proposals, and someone thought “why not drag someone from our team, rather than getting someone new”. Which has merit too, since our own people would already have a feel of our products and how they function. Supposedly, it’s easy to fill in the shoes of the designers, but harder to fill in the shoes of a conceptualiser.
Here comes the clincher – I have been “arrowed” to fill in the shoes of the would-be new conceptualiser / proposer. That’s some big shoes for me to fill, with me already small feet.
It’s a real dilemma for me too. On one hand, going for this opportunity, (which doesn’t come often) would allow me to learn new stuff, get more exposure. It supposedly allows for more upward growth too, which is of course beneficial in the long run. However, I’m not too sure of the workload and the stress levels, which may be higher than what I’m having right now, and as it is, it’s quite a comfortable level, and I’m not too sure I’ll want to let go of it soon.
On the other hand, staying where I am right now won’t mess with MY Grand Scheme of Things. Everything would (hopefully) go as planned and I can look forward to a new and refreshing change.
That’s not to say that if I embrace the opportunity that I’ll totally destroy My Grand Scheme of Things. The way I look at it, it’ll probably only delay the inevitable. One thing’s for sure, is that this will be quite a change from what I’m used to. The job is still quite similar, using the same tools. Only difference would be the scope and how engaging it would be comparatively.
This will be a small departure from my comfort zone, which is good in a way, since it will keep me on my toes and aware of my surroundings. Like any other fellow human, we tend to settle once we have found a comfortable spot, and I seem to be doing that.
If only it’s as simple as a toss of a coin. Unfortunately, it’s not. I’m still undecided.
