Company hired me for a position but I am doing something else [closed]

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

A year ago I worked in a company as "senior engineer" on a large public facing website. Not the job of my life, but at least in the line of what I like to do.

Then a large computer manufacturer offered me a better position to work on their large scale, public facing website. I accepted and resigned my previous job.

Since then due to some internal politics, my department was removed from those projects and became only responsible for an internal back-office software. Which is the thing I hate and I never wanted to do.

I complained at that time, and was told to wait since a new project of a large public facing site would come up. Two months ago I got confirmation that such a thing is not happening and I asked to be moved to the department that works in such projects. The answer has been negative. Saying that because my department is short of people they cannot authorize such a move.

The person blocking the move is my department manager and HR says they need his authorization.

What can I do?

I cannot get back to my previous job since my position is already covered. It is kind of difficult to find jobs about public facing websites with the technology that I usually work with and the fact that I am not doing that anymore is lessening my employability.

I live and work in Ireland, and of course my contract do not specify nothing beyond the job title. I have a PDF with the position I applied for, and I have the emails where that link was sent to me.

manpreet 2 years ago

It is kind of difficult to find jobs about public facing websites with the technology that I usually work, and the fact that I am not doing that anymore is lessening my employability.

That's... quite a contradiction right there. It really sounds like you should not go back to the field of work that is not employable, and like you are, in fact, doing something more employable now.

To officially answer your question, risk looking for work "you love" or learn to like what you are doing now. Those are your options. It sounds pretty clear to me that you have a stronger career in your new field. No one giving you sound career advice is going to tell you to ignore that.