u/tommcfc11

Consultancy QS here with 8 years experience. For the past 6-12 months I’ve felt stuck in terms of my development, skills, and progression. I’m on a large scale infra scheme but I’m basically an admin person, I don’t do much actual qs’ing, i just keep getting tasks around admin and data management. The years of experience I have and the day to day responsibilities I have seem to be so far apart. I should be stepping up to snr but how can I when I’m stuck doing admin? It’s a bit of a confidence knock as well having been out of proper qs tasks for a length of time. Anyone had similar experience ?

I’ve 8 years experience working in consultancy. My experience has been very stop start in terms of being moved around projects, waiting for new projects to start up etc I’ve not been on a long term scheme. The issue is I feel so behind in terms of my experience to where I should be and where others are with the same years of experience as myself. I’m proactive in trying to get myself better development but it’s a struggle. Has anyone else struggled with similar in a consultancy setting? I’m thinking what’s the best direction for me to go, as I feel like I’ve completely stalled in progressing. It’s also a bit embarrassing when people with less experience have so much more knowledge on things as they’ve landed on a good project which has aided their development

I accepted a job offer a number of weeks ago and gave my notice. I wasn’t leaving for an increase in money, i wanted a change in environment and to do the type of work I was keen on. I had a counter offer from current firm after resigning and in the end I accepted, I don’t know why… I think the pressure and also nerves around starting a new job got the better of me. I’ve regretted it since. My question is has the ship now sailed in reaching back out to employer where I accepted the job offer, should I just park that and look for something else? I’m under the impression they probably won’t even reply since I accepted then withdrew.
People say you should never take a counter offer & now I know why