Do you have enough skills and drive to leave this place?
I’m not sure. Maybe it’s just a matter of confidence, however, when I compare the time when I just came here and now, I have a feeling I haven’t learned much.
Of course everyone deserves to work on themselves, but Riverbed didn’t give me many opportunities to acquire new skills and now I think I’m much less marketable than a lot of younger people from other companies.
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In IT, I’ve greatly sharpened my skills because of the array of technologies available but it’s easily the most confusing, contentious, and irresponsible BUs in Riverbed. There is no focus and the leaders are always copping out of their own responsibilities. Just a bunch of whining b–ches that doesn’t know WTF they’re doing.
@azg is 100% right. If you require insights, hit up ex-Riverbed colleagues who work for companies that you think will challenge you. I did this and I have a full curriculum on my plate. I didn’t realize how much has changed, how well understood topics we consider advanced are well understood. The engagement process for Sales, SE, marketing, and technology partners is different, discussing strategic projects we aren’t invited to know and how open C-levels and VP’s are, often sharing their 1-3 year business plans. I was even told there are AM’s that demo and few that code basic API’s.
We just need to up level our skills and I’m doing this on my own dime and my own time.
There is ALWAYS opportunity to learn. It may not necessarily come from your projects or any corporate training. If you are in sales, try to learn more about your customers. Become an expert Salesforce user (there is TONS to learn there). Learn how to prospect better.
If you are in engineering, look for other projects to work on outside of your area. If you have an idea, try to create that project. Did your idea get rejected? Work on your proposal and business case skills. Did it still get rejected? So what, the proposal skills you just sharpened are extremely valuable...
Start doing the job you want–not the job you have. Over time what you spend your time on will naturally shift towards the latter.
Maybe because you are a fat f— and dont assume responsibility for your action and wait to be told