With great power comes great responsibility.

[chanaleh]

As I had whined mentioned to some of you, today (yes, a Sunday) I had to be up at 6:30am to get to work by ~8:15 with bagels in hand for a work meeting. (Mercifully, I didn't have to run the meeting or even really contribute to it, I just had to make sure the breakfast was nicely set up, and be there to take notes and do a little schmoozing. And the meeting itself seemed to go over quite well.) And then there was Graduation, and then I wandered back upstairs to clean up from the meeting breakfast (and actually eat some myself) -- and stuff and things culminating in this evening's cue-to-cue, but never mind all that right now.

What I haven't crowed about mentioned to most of you is that they recently gave me a promotion. :-) Which isn't even to say that they are giving me more responsibility; this is one of those "officially promote me up to the level of responsibility I've already taken on" sort of deals, which is just fine by me. I'm just past my 2-year anniversary date, and have -- at least subjectively! -- easily doubled the level of my responsibility in that time. Lots of days that end with the sentiment "I'm really not getting paid enough to think this much." That sort of thing.

I was hired under the title of "Marketing and Development Associate". They gave me a token raise a few months into my tenure (bringing me from "just under" to "just over" what I had been making at my previous full-time job), and I gave myself a titular promotion sometime in the past year by the simple expedient of changing it in my email signature and on my business cards. (In all fairness, it was in response to a complaint from a parent, after I designed an online survey regarding school communications and emailed it around to the parent body, that "this is not a marketing issue and why aren't you focusing on academics blah blah blah," that I said "They're right, this should not at all be seen as a marketing tactic," and promptly edited my title to Communications Officer / Webmaster, which combination was much more reflective of what I was actually handling by that point.)

Sometime in mid-May, BossMan brought me up to his office one day and said, in short, "We're promoting you. Pick your title." There's no money in the budget for raises, you realize; but fortunately, an actual, merited promotion is another story. :-}

He said, "How about Communications Director?" I said, "Hmm, I actually find that a tad intimidating, I might rather keep it to Communications Manager, but I'll get back to you." To which, later that night, justom, mjperson and ilhander all immediately said "NOOO! When someone asks you if you're a god, YOU SAY YES! You WANT Director on your resume!", and so it seems that Director of Communications is indeed the settled choice.

It was supposed to take effect July 1, with the fiscal year, but then they seem to have managed to speed it up. (Which is awesome, because I'm suddenly eligible for contribution-matching to the pension fund, and am about to resume deductions for my own health insurance coverage, and and and.) So I've accordingly edited my email signature once again. And vowed to use my leveled-up powers only for good and never for evil.

So, on the whole, a net win. :-D

Comments

[besamim.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[moria923.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Wicked awesome! (How did I miss that?)

BTW does the fiscal year really start July 1? I've been assuming it was September 1 b/c that's when the calendar resets.

[c1.livejournal.com]

b/c that's when the calendar resets.
Who's calendar?

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

A lot of schools declare a fiscal calendar of July 1 - June 30, because then you can do all your financial year end paperwork at a time that you have less academic work to worry about, and it still breaks over terms the same way as the academic calendar.

(Also, congratulations! :) )

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

The calendar at our mutual workplace. :-)

Missed the point of the question.

[c1.livejournal.com]

It was more a rhetorical question: "your spiritual needs may be aligned with a particular calendar, but Uncle Sam keeps his own time."

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

The school's fiscal year does start July 1, for purposes of budgeting, tax year, health insurance contracts (recall that we're switching providers effective then), etc. I'm not sure how teacher contracts are timed.

But our vacation calendar (for non-teachers) does reset 9/1 for whatever reason. :-)

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Ah, OK. Teacher contracts run 9/1 - 8/31, that's why I was confused. (The insurance switched June 1, BTW. Tell your doctor.) :-)

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Well, and I'm not on the insurance right now, which is why I could misremember that. :-)

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

'schkoiach!

[magid.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Excellent news!

[bluepapercup]

WooHOO!!

Well-deserved, I'm sure. :)

Glad to see you're being recognized, and that your close ones are encouraging you to embrace that recognition.

Very proud. :)

[sunspiral.livejournal.com]

That's excellent! Congratulations! And yes, having Director in your title is a big win.

[points.livejournal.com]

Mazel-tov! :)

[magickcat.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

W00h00!!! :)

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

That's awesome! It's funny how we spend so much time in the same room, but don't really get to catch up there. I'll have to give you the hug this news deserves tomorrow, Madame Director :)

[muffyjo]

Congratulations! That's absolutely fantastic! I'm glad to see you're getting the credit to go with the work!

Go you!

[c1.livejournal.com]

Nice that you're finally leveling up, and +1 on "when someone asks are you a god, you say YES!"

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Very nice. You're definitely more the "Director" type than the "Associate" type.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Congrats.

[cycon.livejournal.com]

Yay promotion! and yay Ghostbusters reference! I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment, too. Communications Manager is all well and good, bu Communications Director means never having to say, "Hailing frequencies open, sir."

And vowed to use my leveled-up powers only for good and never for evil.

Nah, the real question is, do you use your new powers for good...or for AWESOME?

[wntrrvn.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, Director!

[warlord-mit.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!!!
Keep up the good work.
And next you'll be VP of Communications! :-D

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

*Exactly* what my advisory board said. :-D

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Yay! Resume candy like Whoa!

[miraclaire.livejournal.com]

Congrats!!

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[ken_r]

Congratulations! :-)

[gilana]

I can definitely understand feeling intimidated by the title, but good for you for going for it! Glad they appreciate you.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

*does the dance of joy*

[dragonfriek.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Congratulations!

[jehanna.livejournal.com]

Go you!!! And that was absolutely the right call title-wise IMO.

[dushai.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! And another +1 for "When someone asks you if you're a god you say YES!" Aside from the free résumé bling, in the worst case the title will goad you to build your skills.

But I would've gone with "Grand Poo-Bah", personally.

[mearah.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Well deserved!

Awesome!

[nacht_musik]

Bwahahahahahaha!Awesome! :-)

[qiika.livejournal.com]

Director! Very nice. Congrats!

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

"I'm communicating with a director already! What a joy!" :-)

Great Power

[dhs.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!