u/moshfrokeen

Marketing for 8 years. I like marketing. The problem is marketing at a 2000 person company means I spend 90% of my time in approval chains and stakeholder alignment and 10% doing actual marketing. I used to build campaigns. Now I build slide decks about campaigns for people who will never run them. Same career. Completely different job depending on where you do it. Anyone else stuck in similar situation and figured out how to deal with this?

Every manager I've had has confirmed that i'm good at what i do. But being good at something and wanting to do it every day are apparently two very different things and nobody warned me about that gap.

I'm an operations analyst. 5 years in. I never leave work feeling like I did something that mattered. I just leave work feeling like I completed tasks.

Is it realistic to expect more from a career or am I chasing something that doesn't exist?

Third job in a row where I end up in conflict with someone who works completely differently than me. They're slow and deliberate, I'm fast and want things done quick. They want to discuss everything in meetings, I want to make a call and move on. I used to think I just had bad luck with coworkers. Now I'm wondering if I'm the common denominator. Is this a personality flaw or am I just in the wrong environments?

ok kinda embarrassing post but whatever.

my reviews at work are consistently good. just got a bump. manager seems happy. fine. but anyone outside my team asks what I do and I word-vomit some task-list answer that makes it sound like I push numbers around all day. recruiter messaged me last week asking me to describe my role and the paragraph I sent back was so dry i was bored re-reading it.

I describe what I do not why it matters and I notice while I'm doing it and I still can't stop. I'm worried this might actually impact my growth if my current manager changes.

anyone actually fixed this? like not tell stories advice, an actual move that worked?