My current situation.
Last year around this time, I was put on a task to develop a workflow/ticket based tool that would generate reports, automate certain processes and help improve workflow. This was awarded to me after I came up with other process improvements. I should mention that my 'promotion' (of sorts) caused some bitterness among the two coworkers I started with, who have been deriding my efforts verbally behind my back. I am not concerned with them, but currently my project is on hold and I feel like the vultures are starting to circle. This promotion did not come with a position change, but my position description was updated and I got a 12% raise.
It has been a year now and the first phase of my project has been soft launched with some success, but am stalled by impending server upgrades. As a result, I'm being pulled back into some of my old tasks, which are causing me to feel like I am getting nowhere in my career. We have a new manager who is now riding my boss and other senior management to have my time resourced back to my old job in order to help out. My colleagues no doubt find this amusing (me getting knocked off my high horse) and I am feeling somewhat humiliated by the whole thing.
So because I know all the jobs in my dept., while my development work is on hold, I have offered to help out in various ways, without actually being demoted back to doing the work itself, as that would cause me to lose face. I feel like this isn't enough to make this new manager happy, and she would like to basically drag me back into a world I thought I had left behind for good.
The last problem is that I am sort of seeing someone at work behind closed doors, and this is making me very conscious about my status and how I am perceived. Any threat to my status is sending me into a very defensive state and this is causing a lot of stress (as if crapping where I eat isn't bad enough).
My question is, how can I push through this? I want to be seen as a valuable resource, but I feel like people are too protective of their roles to take my help, and are only interested in having me do menial tasks. I don't want to sit on my laurels, but I don't want to be seen as getting demoted (even if it is temporary) either. My boss isn't on my back at all, but we've hired new management and they are eager to prove their management skills, even if it means re-resourcing other depts.
Last year around this time, I was put on a task to develop a workflow/ticket based tool that would generate reports, automate certain processes and help improve workflow. This was awarded to me after I came up with other process improvements. I should mention that my 'promotion' (of sorts) caused some bitterness among the two coworkers I started with, who have been deriding my efforts verbally behind my back. I am not concerned with them, but currently my project is on hold and I feel like the vultures are starting to circle. This promotion did not come with a position change, but my position description was updated and I got a 12% raise.
It has been a year now and the first phase of my project has been soft launched with some success, but am stalled by impending server upgrades. As a result, I'm being pulled back into some of my old tasks, which are causing me to feel like I am getting nowhere in my career. We have a new manager who is now riding my boss and other senior management to have my time resourced back to my old job in order to help out. My colleagues no doubt find this amusing (me getting knocked off my high horse) and I am feeling somewhat humiliated by the whole thing.
So because I know all the jobs in my dept., while my development work is on hold, I have offered to help out in various ways, without actually being demoted back to doing the work itself, as that would cause me to lose face. I feel like this isn't enough to make this new manager happy, and she would like to basically drag me back into a world I thought I had left behind for good.
The last problem is that I am sort of seeing someone at work behind closed doors, and this is making me very conscious about my status and how I am perceived. Any threat to my status is sending me into a very defensive state and this is causing a lot of stress (as if crapping where I eat isn't bad enough).
My question is, how can I push through this? I want to be seen as a valuable resource, but I feel like people are too protective of their roles to take my help, and are only interested in having me do menial tasks. I don't want to sit on my laurels, but I don't want to be seen as getting demoted (even if it is temporary) either. My boss isn't on my back at all, but we've hired new management and they are eager to prove their management skills, even if it means re-resourcing other depts.