Dear forum friends,
I hesitated for awhile before I write the following here. I asked myself several times if I should post it here,to bother our forum friends? In fact, it is only my own case ,my own trouble these days. But finally I made up my mind to post it here. I think I have at least two reasonable reasons for doing this.:-) One reason is for myself. I want to get more suggestions from more friends here,to make sure that my final decision is wise and best one for me. I know here we have many excellent friends who are from different corners and different industries and have different experiences of it. The other reason is that I guess maybe someone else who also sometimes may encounter this kind of problem in their life ,can also get benefits (many suggestions) from here as I do when they read these articles below. And also we can take it as a new topic for discussing our working worries.
Yes, friends, Maybe you have ever met the same or similar trouble in your life like this, then please kindly tell me what’s your experiences when you facing it; Maybe you will meet it someday later,please also try to write your current ideas about it down here.
Well, let me come back to the point, I am annoyed by my current working situation terribly at present. And I will have to make a very important decision within one month. It is truly pretty important for both my company and myself. So I have to carefully think it over for both sides. Because I don’t hope either side down in the near future.
I am in charge of a big production planning department. My department has thirty-six clerks already now, but we are still looking for new ones from the job market these days. We deal with all orders from overseas,from receiving all orders from our two sales departments in Hongkong,material control, production arrangement ,until shipping our products out…We have total four branch manufactories ,and two of them just set up at the beginning of this year. The businesses of our whole group have been always gradually increased in the past years. And obviously it is getting much more better this year!
I myself have to deal with much more cases related with my department.( and seems all cases are relevant with my department in our company). I actually don’t need to do those detailed things. I have four assistants who take charge of different parts in my department. Although I only need to handle those big and important cases .I feel just like I am fighting with my endless work every day. Yes,dear friends, If you are also working in the production planning department,I guess you can understand my feelings well. As the head of this department, the burden on my shoulders is getting heavier than ever before! I actually not only need to earnestly manage my own department,but also sometimes have to follow some extra cases which actually don’t belong to my department but dispatched by my boss at times. In each single working day, I briskly leave home and hurriedly go to work in the mornings, I exhaustedly come back home in the evenings. And when I get home,I must smilingly and patiently play games with my naughty son and help him with his activity books at nights. And in the meanwhile, I still try to set aside some time to keep up with my learning of English. I am also worrying about my health….
I tried to talk to my boss last week about my current situation of working and my feelings .( of course, I did not mention any my personal things ) .After we analysed the whole situations of our company and my department, my boss gave me two choices in the end. The first one is to recruit another two assistants back to assist me managing the whole big department. The second one is to divide my department into two departments. That means that we can try to divide material control part as to a new department ,and look for a new supervisor to manage it. He advised me to think it over and give him a particular project about it if I prefer to take the second choice. He said,” You can choose anyone you think is better for you. and you can choose anyone you think can reduce your working pressure. I would like to have your particular ideas later”.
I did think of it many times as follows :
1.Actually I know material control is an unattached department in many manufactories. Everyone knows that material control is a very important part in any company. How to reduce the stock in warehouse and enable to provide enough materials to production department on time and make sure all orders can ship out in time according to the requests of our clients. It is by no means an easy work to do! You can economize a great deal of money for your company if you handle it very well. As a developing company, I think it’s better to set up an unattached production material control department for its further future business..(we call it as PMC department).
2.It’s necessary to recruit another one or two assistants for me no matter which choice I will take due to the more and more responsibilities on me with the currently expanding business of our company. If I still take charge of all parts with me including material control,perhaps, I will obtain higher position and much more power in our company in the future. But I will have to spend much more energy and time in working at the same time. If we set up a new PMC department, I guess the new supervisor can take charge of it alone step by step after coaching him/her for several months. Then I probably can get a release at that time,and I can have a little bit more time for my family and my studying.
3.According to my current thinkings and situations. I personally would rather take the second choice.The reasons are:
Firstly , I don’t think this is my lifetime job. I don’t hope to devote all myself into it at present.(actually I did devote too much into it in the past years,and I think it was worth of what I had done).
Secondly. I hope to have much more time and energy for my family and my study. And I still look forward to looking for a better job which I am really interested in in the future. But I know it still needs my work hard on my English.
Thirdly, I don’t want to be too hard on myself. I am also only an ordinary woman, I don’t hope too much stress from work take my youth and health away so early and easily. I care my health, I care my skin as most women do. I don’t hope that I look gaunt and feel exhausted all the time under the heavy pressure.
Fourthly , It’s the position and power in our company.It’s the very point why I ask for your suggestions today.
That evening,I told my husband my worries about it. Without any consideration and hesitation ,he said to me immediately.”Just divide it as soon as possible, anyway, your boss will not reduce your current salary by doing this. And no matter how much you do,it’s very hard for you to get much higher salary. Why bother to take too much on yourself?!”
Later, I asked one of my friends in Hongkong for her opinion. She is still an unmarried girl but also at the same age as mine. I asked her if she were in my situation then what she would do? She told me that she would choose the first one, because we are now in the competitive society and we are right at the very age that we should work hard for our bright future. She would like to choose the position and power firstly.
Yesterday evening, I also asked another friend of mine in my city. She is a beautician and she is elder than me by almost ten years. She has already her own family, but her families are not with her all the time, her husband is working in anther city nearby, her two children are with her parents in her hometown. To my big surprise, her answer is also the same as above friend! In addition, she think she ought to earn and save much more money for her future.
In a sudden,I am confused deeply why so many women would like to take their social status as the first nowadays? ??
So dear female friends, what’s your opinions on this issue? How to choose it if you face it in your real life? Dear male friends, then what’s your suggestions if your good friends or your wives face this problem? Any suggestions are welcome here!:-)
Dear Mary, Have you ever met such trouble when you were at my age? I am looking forward to your opinion,too. Dear aunty, Please give me some advices. Let me work it out in the best way!
I did not mean to write such a long and wordy article at the beginning. But I am afraid that I cannot make sense here. I want to make my thoughts and ideas clear here to all of you. so I write it so long.dear friends, sorry for my poor English, sorry for bothering you. and many thanks for your time and your help!!!
Sincerely yours,
Sally :-)
