Unfortunately, not everyone can relocate.

So I see where your grievance could be stemming from

Does the company you work for have a monopoly over the area?

My limiting factor is being able to move.

Yep. Relocating

But that's a personal thing. The company I work for covers the entirety of the south east.

If only there were more energy companies to enable solid competition and choice.

There are plenty I'm just stuck mainly due to personal things like family and having young kids.

I used to live around Round Rock, Texas and the beautiful thing there is we had a plethora of energy companies to select from. Going into Austin though... there is a monopoly.

Makes sense. Sorry to hear you feel stuck.

It is what it is. I make a good salary. Just feel like I can contribute more if given the opportunity.

I hate the idea of schmoozing, but have you considered it?

What's that?

Getting to be good friends with the boss

Sadly, the biggest issue in workforce is there is a heavy “who you know” influence.

Ah yeah. I've got a solid relationship with my boss. I'm pretty much the go to guy.... but that in its own right is limiting.

Hmm

Have you directly asked him to pull some strings for you?

I could do better at that. I've at least vocalized that I don't want to stay at my current job forever and have signed up for outside training and development but that usually gets shutdown or denied.

Does your company offer a career development map?

Yes. I've filled out my pathway and submitted it to where management can see it.

It sounds like you’ll need to hound your boss for internal resources and string pulling. He needs to be your advocate and right hand man on this.

I need to get a mentor in one of my areas of interest and we have a program for that but my application always gets denied.

Do you know why?

Outside of you weren't selected, not really.

See if your boss can find out more info on why you weren’t selected.

I definitely will next go around but I think it will be fruitless... they really can't say that you don't fit the demographic if you know what I mean.

Ahh...

That's the really frustrating part

So I take it you are a straight white male?

https://youtu.be/BUqSy1qzc4E has anyone taken a look at this??

@AlexanderTorri indeed

@Zeke what's the tldr on this. I'm watching but it's an hour long.

Lol 😂 you caught me. I didn’t wanna watch it all and was hoping someone else would hahahaha

The background voice is just a guide. The relevant info is the scrolling script of legal docs from a court case. I’m guessing that it is all the movements a person took to do everything in legal fashion but was turned away from the courts despite appealing each time

I’ll watch it later but I’m out and about atm.

If it has subtitles I can watch it now.

Nope. No captions available.

Nope. Just a visual showing of court adjudications with random sad man talking in the background

Totally can’t multitask like that

After I get my Taco Bell I’ll watch and update y’all. Give me 30