I've been working with the same company for over two years, and I got hired on shortly after leaving the military to do some menial, low skill work while I went to school. I was desperate for a job, so I took it even though it did not have a real job description that would detail my responsibilities. But ultimately I would be doing clerk/administration/workflow.
I'm now doing Qlikview development and putting together business intelligence tools. Reducing four hour tasks to five minute tasks kind of thing. Helping managers with executive reports. After doing some looking online, my job right now is somewhere between Business Analyst and Business Intelligence Analyst. The problem is that my pay has not changed, despite my request for pay/title change in February, with consistent follow ups to determine the progress. On top of that, the team that I'm technically a part of now is toxic, and I found out my manager was actively withholding things she needed to turn in to progress my "promotion"; I pushed hard to get moved to another team and it was denied. They want me to continue to do the work I was hired to do and "in your spare time" do project management/process improvement/build BI tools.
I'm feeling a little taken advantage of. The obvious answer is to quit and get an actual title, but there's a twist: I have a year left on my degree. Every job posting in the area has a bachelors minimum, so I'm fairly certain I'll be screened out before anyone even looks at my resume.
Am I stuck here? I can't just bail: I've got a family I have to provide for. But I'm very much not cool with selling my time/skills at 50% market value. If I just stop doing the work and revert to my most basic preliminary tasks, it's going to burn some bridges here and I can't imagine they'll keep me around.
Submitted June 27, 2017 at 07:59AM by Exulansis0311 http://ift.tt/2rX9rD8
