I just got out of a meeting with my personnel manager and now I'm feel all kinds of guilty. Since I transitioned to my current role in January, he has gone a long way toward giving me a lot of opportunities to learn things through new tasking and he's been trying to give me the skills that I'd need to become a good Project Manager here...the problem is that I'm going to have to put in my notice sometime in June and I'm afraid that he'll think I was wasting his time with all the tutilege that he's given me. Also, when I accepted this new position back in November, I hadn't gotten into business school yet and I comtemplated deferring for a year so I would be able to give them company at least a year of my time in this role. Once I got the call from Derrick Bolton, I knew that I wouldn't defer and the clock started ticking. I'm leaning toward giving a months' notice on June 15, but I'm not 100% sure if that's how it'll go down yet. I just want to make sure that I don't burn any bridges and close any doors to a possible return to the company after graduation. Something tells me that people around here might feel somewhat betrayed by my decision to keep this under wraps for all these months that I've been getting prepared to take on a more substantial management role in the company, but this is the best way that I could come up with to handle it. I know that business school is the correct move to make for the advancement of my career, but that doesn't make it any easier to deal with leaving a company that I've really enjoyed working for over the past 3 years.
Posted by marquis930 at May 10, 2004 04:16 PM