Really frustrated with my job right now.. GRRRRR

They fired the Director above me, who would have mentored me and led the overall strategy within the department, one month after I had started this job.

My current boss does not fully know my field, and has learned it on the job in the last 3 years. I have 8 years of experience in my field under my belt.

I am very frustrated that my boss doesn't understand or know strategies within my field.

So not only right now do I need to build a case with my client to pursue a strategy that will work over the course of a few months, I also have to build the case with my boss, who is clueless.

His strategy involves creating blog articles for the client, in order to drive traffic and potential customers to our client's website.

And my strategy involves raising rankings for the entire website, across the board, which will drive much more traffic and potential customers.

And how many visitors who read a blog article become an actual customer? Maybe 3/100??? I don't know the statistic.

But honestly, I am just beyond frustrated that they fired the Director and did not replace him with someone knowledgeable who could understand this field and provide leadership.

So here I sit on a Sat pissed off and annoyed. I am trying to shake it off, but it's really hard.

I was contacted by a major brand for a second interview.

Even though my company gave me expanded responsibilities to now include social media, I may jump ship.

I've been unhappy with the lack of leadership and mentorship. My boss is NOT an SEO person.. he is a former Web developer... so WHY is HE in charge of our entire SEO team?????

And I am the senior most person. I had taken this job so that I could LEARN from someone who knew a LOT more than me and from someone who had more years of experience than I do.

So screw it. I am going to pursue this other opportunity! Plus, it pays more than 10K more, which I could really use.

I don't think I could be happy in my job even if I move more towards social. I just don't see the proper leadership in place.

You are part of a team who does SEO? OMG; it is significantly more complicated than I realized! I blog and the SEO aspect frustrates me.

A second interview? That sounds exciting! Do you go in physically or video conference it?

This is no way to spend a Saturday. Stressed and annoyed about work... I’ve done it many times though. It will wear you out. I hope you’re able to find another mentor. Personally, I’ve never had a mentor or anybody to learn from but I think it would have been nice to have one. I hope things get a bit better with the new boss.

Yes I do.... SEO is fairly complex and also can be hard, depending on the coding and backend of a website.

It's a phone interview with the hiring manager. And thanks!

I know right? I had an edible to calm my nerves. And thanks... I do need a mentor of sorts.

My Pleasure!!

I guess I need to just accept the fact that:

- my boss isn't a mentor
- they fired the Director and won't replace him
- the guy they placed above me doesn't know my field as well as I do... he has his strengths, but I have more years of experience
- my job is far from ideal, I am looking around and will most likely leave soon.

It's the only way I can view it and still feel happy. Otherwise, this is making me feel miserable to think about.... all that is wrong, and all that could use some serious improvement.

Ok, need to vent!!!!!!!

One of my clients is not happy that things aren't happening quickly (progress) for their website?

And WHY is that??? Because the higher ups never set the expectation with the client that SEO can take up to a year even to see true results! That, yes, we can find some "quick wins" for a client, but truly it's a process to build traffic to a website naturally through the search engines. I had a client finally rank MONTHS later after I had worked on their home page, for a high volume search term that finally turned their revenue around.

I was new to the company when I came on board with this one client who complained. And my boss? He should have set the client expectations, being in charge and in charge of the initial strategy, which he dictated.

So I am annoyed. This comes down on me, and now I have to make up for it to the client.

GRRRRRRR.

I would refer the upset client to your boss in a nice way.

Yes.. that’s a good idea! In fact, my boss and I will have the next meeting possibly in person.