Am already certified for the "Expert" level in the old world term, the CF, (which no one would probably care nowadays, with Checkpoint being the new thing). Was taken on a project for a B9 position with the assurance that if i get client accolades, in the first 3 months of the 12 month project i would get the desired band.
4 months down the line, when the project went successfully live, i was told there are no budgets for the year 2018 and the result is forget promotion, even your role will not exist in the account any further.
This means, though being qualified and experienced enough, i will have to now settle for a compromise role and continue to do what i have learnt over a period of time and keep repeating it with a hope that someday a position or a role will open up in the near future that may see my vie for it.
The hopes are dimming, opportunities are few, and a career dream is fading. Now the focus, is to stay relevant in the job market and up sill. Being a certified Project manager is no longer beneficial in the IT domain as we keep repeating our selves year over year with little gain in sight.
Nobody is interested in the lessons learnt, no cares about a Project Charter any longer, stakeholders couldnt care less. All the more a reason for the project managers to die a silent death or suffer in silence.
Forget glorious roles, 2018, will see many such compromises being made in everyones lives (assuming they stay job relevant).
The idea of re-skilling / up skilling in a entirely new domain doesnt excite me anymore, since i am not able to summon the same energies that i invested in building my career so far. Knowing that the investment didnt fetch me what i needed from my IBM career, where do i have the energy reserves to bring them up for my use now?
Retirement is still a long time away, i wish to stay relevant, however, as one says, i will continue to rise again after every stagnation (am not calling it a fall), i just need to find enough motivation and energy to reinvest myself.
Pity my IBM managers for misleading me into this situation.