I’m currently working for a non-profit org which in the last year has finally(after a year of balking) given me a chance to utilize my A+ skills in the Tech dept. The problem I’m finding is that when there is downtime I don’t ever seem to be able to read technical books like the other ‘big’ guys do to catch up with the rest of the team…the VP, read:owners wife, see me reading tech books and regardless of it being business related 2minutes later I get told by my supervisor to ‘becareful’ and read on my own time. I have just ‘figured out’ that in this dept they want you to learn on your own, that is if i ask a question of my supervisor here and it isn’t Tech Support related, most times he won’t answer my question or skirt around it. I want to say that he is actively restraining me, but there are times when he just bursts out information…usually not when I need it most. He says its how he learned his position and I’m lucky that he even documented his training because there was no documentation for tech support here. My instincts tell me to flee, but I don’t feel I have enough credentials to do so with just an A+ in this ‘shrinking’ job market. Anybody have any ideas. I really want to move ahead and I’m studying on my own for MCSE but I feel so restricted at work…is this normal? I would have thought that people want their IT teams to be as diverse as possible to provide redundancy, althought I can see the security benefits of what they are doing(especially in this job market). However, if they didn’t trust me, why give me the position. Please help cut the fog….
