The Plutonic Uranian Career Advisor 2
Dear PUCA:
I’ve jumped from one temporary assignment to another and hated them all. One was super plutonic working for a national database of deaths no less where I collated data from police reports of deaths and put together a spreadsheet of deaths from ladders in the home. I’ve been working in Information/Record management but jobs are hard to come by. I have talents but I don’t know how to translate them into a career. My degree was in art history and love the records field but I don’t know which direction to go in. I have the sun in Leo, moon in Gemini, Taurus Rising; lots of Virgo. I have Pluto in Libra in the sixth and Uranus in Scorpio in the seventh and I think these have coloured my working life.
Dear Death From Ladders,
A long time ago, I was a temp’ file clerk with no education; peregrine, cutoff, fringe, the quiet guy who runs the file room. Follow only your convictions to blaze the trail, is the lesson of Uranus in Scorpio, and you will be delivered. You should become familiar with your most poignant astrological aspects if you need more clues on how to achieve this. Research you. Start with your very potent talent for communication. Do you know how rare it is that one communicates one’s feelings so succinctly as you do above?
Dear PUCA:
I work in hospitality, for a large chain of hotels. After about a year, in which I rocked it out as an hourly employee, I got promoted to Social Media Manager (perfect for this Gemini). About 3 months in, I got a call from the VP of the Management company, saying that they need my help in a hotel across the country. All expenses paid, plus double my pay (upgraded to salary+ benefits). I thought my ship had finally come in…they send me out, and the place is gorgeous, but it is just me and another guy running the entire place (its a small boutique place) and there are problems…it seems as though they are deliberately trying to make it fail, pin it on me, and make it a tax writeoff, in addition to the sale.
So my question is this- How do I navigate what is becoming a no-win situation, and come out on top without going down with the ship? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
-UG
Dear UG,
I’m confused…did they need your help to run a hotel, or to help create and maintain a cohesive social media-inflected digital marketing strategy to generate sales? I mean, are you checking people in? As much as I want to say, “you’re a fuqing mogul, sell baby sell”, more optimism is not what is called for here. Don’t be that guy on the Titanic gurgling, “this thing can still float, I know it…I know it….Rose…Rose…” I think that you should communicate your doubts upward. Open a dialogue and express your concerns to those that assign you. Keep it short.
Dear PUCA:
I have been in the pharmaceutical industry for over 20 years. After recently being layed off (May 2014) as a full-time employee from a small pharma company I opened my open business of consulting. I hope to have my business running remotely from my home in 5 years. However, it looks like I will be struggling with living in different states as new projects come up to get me to my 5 year plan.
… I am good at what I do but without a BS degree … I worry that my future is not that bright. I feel good with what I have experienced in the last 5 years…my life completely changed, I moved my arse 1000 miles away from family and friends alone and started my life over without a job. The pharma world found me and my move has been a success hence why I don’t want to relocate. I love my life and new state…
I enrolled as a student with a local college so I am going back to school.
My Question: Do you see me being successful with my 5 year plan of working from home in the state I love and being financially stable as I get close to retirement?
Thanks,
VE
Dear VE,
I admire your courage. Now, do the math on the back of an envelope. If your outflow exceeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall. Transportation can be expensive, so can housing, and I don’t know if you are funding your education via debt, which would be monthly hit. If you can’t make more money by remaining close to home, and it is clear that you want to call someplace home and orbit tightly around it, then you just have to cut costs. What are you keeping that can be liquidated, or loosed, or written off, and will that balance the equation? Are there collective resources that can assist you – roommates, mass transit, etc? Keep me informed.
Dear PUCA:
My question for the PUCA was about his views on Micromanagement…I work in a culture of micromanagement and it sucks. For the record, I am the one being micromanaged, not the micromanager.
Dear Micromanage-Ed,
I’ve never been in a work environment that didn’t have a degree of micro management. The more complexity that is to be managed, the higher the degree of control exerted down the chain. My recommendation is to review your modes of communication and teach yourself to wax elegantly simple. When it is evident that you have a style through and through, and that style communicates crisply, you will feel no small amount of breaking through as others voice their reliance on you. I am quite proud, and it is a detail indicative of core development, that my spreadsheet column heading formats have become infectiously stylish among those professionals who traffic solely in the infectiously stylish. The only way out is deeper in.
You may contact me at plutonicuranian@gmail.com. I will respond exclusively through Mystic Medusa in two weeks.
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