I need some external judgements to understand if i'm totally biased about my job situation.
M, 29, working in e-commerce.
Working there since 6 years.
My salary is around 24k€/year, an average salary for my country.
I don't know if my job is shit or i'm misjudging.
First, i dont have any degree.
It's a “small” shop with great revenues. If you split the revenues for the employees, it surpass 1M for each one. Money is not a problem.
My jobs are:
taking care of the customer service (more than 200 requests/day).
taking care of warranties (more than 400/years) both customer and supplier's side.
HR
Content creation (mostly description texts, public communications, technical product descriptions).
I run the company's blog with more than 40 articles per year.
I run the company's podcast with more than 30 episodes last year.
I'm, statistically, the best salesman (we do some open days every week).
Every thing i'm taking care of was at level 0 when i started working here. The business was small and i created workflows, worksheets, implemented a Drive network for internal management and other stuff.
As HR “specialist”, i hired all the current employees.
Since i'm a social person i managed to build great relationships, and we actually became real life friends. We see each other in the weekend, we traveled together, we speak each other about our real life problems.
For each of my duties i studied at home, growing my skills to do my job in the best possible way.
I will try to put on paper 3 biggest Pros and Cons. I'm gonna limit to 3 just to avoid any rant or personal thing.
Pros:
– great colleagues (of course, i built the team)
– lots of fields where i can do new things, not a boring job
– never been late with payments.
Cons:
– my boss doesnt want to assign real responsibilities. I'm doing all of that stuff because “the company gives you the opportunity to do that” and “you have to prove you can make the difference”. This is because he doesn't have to pay someone to be responsible, in this way. But if you do something wrong, then you are actually treated like you're the responsible.
Like, if any of the employees doesn't work properly, it's my fault for choosing him.
– the mindset is about saving every cent. We work with puff jackets in winter, and drench in sweat in the summer. In an office.
No proper desks, no proper chairs.
I studied a lot of online marketing and agreed with my boss to implement structured marketing campaign with 1/year span, with more than 100 different posts and ads, and i created all the stuff. Then when i asked him for €25/month for a self-publishing tool he said “we cannot afford a subscription, you have to publish them one by one”. I pressed the big “delete” button. This is just to give you an example.
– there's no room for growing. In my boss mind, i have the best possible income for my position even after speaking with him lots of times.
My opinions.
My actual salary is the same i could earn working at the assembly line in some factory.
So i think im actually under paid.
My problem is, all of my skills are well known by all my colleagues but very difficult to translate in a curriculum.
And a person like me is great in a small business but useless in a big business where they search for vertical skills.
Working in the communication industry in my country is like working at Mc Donald until you reach very high levels. The overflow of graduates selling their asses for some pennies -just to add a line in their curriculum- destroyed the job market.
I feel like im treated like shit becasue i started this job very young and with no qualifications, and all of my new qulifications are “because the company trusted you when you were yuong and it's only natural to become expert of a company's flows”.
I received some raises, and im actually earning a bit more than my colleagues, but yeah, every office employee earns the same as i do with 1/10 of the responsibilities.
Need to hear from someone else, if i have to calm my head since i have no qualifications, or if i have to quit and restart from zero in a different company, and what kind of perspectives i have with my skills.
Maybe my income is fine and im just overreading my skills.
I'm not a vengeful person like “ok now i'm leaving so he will learn my value”. I think that's totally useless, he won't learn and i might lose some opportunities.