I spent a big chunk of my morning trying to figure out what a good Careers page was, and only managed to dishearten myself about the state of my career. This exercise saw me come out the other end with the required document but also a creeping existential fear about the point of my career, not to mention the passing of several minutes paging through the Denver Post’s listicle of the best places to work in Colorado.
I laughed out loud when I stumbled on this journal entry, from back when I lived in New York.
At the time, I was a marketing coordinator for a large international design firm, and one of my responsibilities was managing the website.
My manager had tasked me with an important but unenviable job: update the website’s careers page.
You can see that the task sent me into a spiral.
My manager David had suggested that I check out competitors’ websites for inspiration. But you can’t just remove yourself from the equation! So: I ended up looking at dozens of careers pages…and dozens of job descriptions.
The grass is always greener, right?
Even recently, when asked to develop a new job description for the marketing role at my current firm, the aphorism crept up on me.
And I’m happy in my current job!
But happiness didn’t stop from reading dozens of job postings and indulging in a little day-dreaming.
I suppose the lesson here is to treat careers page assignments with care; be wary of the feelings you will surface in taking them on.
Taylor Coe 