Boring/Not much work to do in current contract

[northernladuk]

Yes, I tend to agree with Lance. We don't know that bit NLUK

Oh. I'm sorry. Maybe I should have asked to see his CV before giving my opinion based on history with people having this level of experience. My apologies. I wish the OP the best of luck to sell his specialist skills to clients paying top dollar then...







Cause he's gonna need it.

[northernladuk]

a bit sweeping don't you think?

When someone says they are three years of uni I'll pull the same line all day long. I might be wrong once in a while but on the balance it's not a bad call IMO.

[MrMarkyMark]

NLUK - do you have some sort of chip on your shoulder? Who are tou to tell me I'm likely to be on the bench for longer than I will be in a contract. FYI i finished my first contract with an IB and had two offers from another two tier 1 IBs. As for saying I won't make a good PMO? It's laughable how would you know that?

Not that I would become a PMO - I'm planning to stick in the BA/PM area.

PM, with three years experience, really

You didn't answer any of my questions / suggestions.

Your choices are really doing something similar as I previously suggested, or getting another perm job to gain experience, as others have suggested.

Otherwise, even if you continue to get contracts you will continue to do basic work, going forward, as you have no demonstrable experience of being able to do anything else.

I've worked in IB, for a long time and there are some BAs here I wouldn't even be trusting to be doing the PMO tasks you are doing.

Someone employed them, also, it doesn't really mean jack tulip, when it comes to them actually being any good.

[LondonManc]

Get some good PMO training and concentrate on that. There's good money to be made in IBs as a good PMO analyst/lead. You'll be able to undercut the consultancies and establish a decent track record.

BA and PM are totally different roles and a good BA doesn't necessarily make a good PM (and vice versa). Don't think that they are readily transferrable skills.

[northernladuk]

NLUK - do you have some sort of chip on your shoulder? Who are tou to tell me I'm likely to be on the bench for longer than I will be in a contract. FYI i finished my first contract with an IB and had two offers from another two tier 1 IBs. As for saying I won't make a good PMO? It's laughable how would you know that?

Not that I would become a PMO - I'm planning to stick in the BA/PM area.

I'm an old guy with a history of posting shoot from the hip rubbish but I just know what I see. My question to you is... How do you know what good is? How do you know what clients want, do well, do badly, what is best practice and so on? That's a genuine question, not being my normal idiot self.

[Lance]

When someone says they are three years of uni I'll pull the same line all day long. I might be wrong once in a while but on the balance it's not a bad call IMO.

you did say that the OP would never make a good PMO. You might be right, but never is a long time.

[LondonManc]

you did say that the OP would never make a good PMO. You might be right, but never is a long time.

Well put, which is partly why I suggested the training - the right course can be a great substitute for experience at times.

[northernladuk]

you did say that the OP would never make a good PMO. You might be right, but never is a long time.

OK. You got that one on a technicality

[ContractorHardman]

To be fair if the OP has managed to get the contracts coming in then fair play to the lad. I think in his situation it is obvious that the current gig don't see you as someone who can really be a game changer and you don't have the experience to do it either. You are young in the game and as I said to a lad yesterday "You probably have the ability but you just don't have that experience to read the game and change it yet".

My advice is learn as much as you can on the job and if you are really bored then study for another qualification whilst you have down time at work, even if your director questions why you are doing it then say you have nothing to do despite asking and you are keeping yourself busy, they will soon find you something to do. If it really is that bad, quit, come home and find another gig. Some people forget that this is only a job, you are paid to carry out tasks, if you are unhappy and you have tried to change it to no avail then quit if its making you feel that bad.

If you really have nothing to do at work, why don't you make NLUK your enemy on here and troll him at every chance

Just joking, in case you actually do

[sal]

BA and PM are totally different roles and a good BA doesn't necessarily make a good PM (and vice versa). Don't think that they are readily transferrable skills.

Not really for a mediocre BA/PM - all they both do is send/receive e-mails, organise meetings/calls and juggle some spreadsheets and reports, while someone else is doing the work.