How to move on in marketing

By: MarkeD | Posted: 30th June 2009

Dust was actually settling in parts of our office. Perhaps it was the spring heat. Those deceptive days where there is an equatorial strength the midday sun - a bank holiday feel to the town - are contrasted by the seasonal truth of the ensuing cold night. I'd been thinking for a year of moving on. The last big campaign was a success, and with rolling steadily but with the effervesce of an old Kent stone mill; I felt my career was in need of a boost.

Yet I fought back the temptation to browse the online sales jobs web sites. It's downtime, and downtime for me hits my work as well as that of my colleagues. It becomes a sort of obsession that distracts me from work I could actually be getting on with and enjoying. It's only when you realise a new marketing job is essential for your own career to develop, that hitting the web to look for marketing jobs online is basically a great idea.

That spring, it was more tempting for me to run my fingers along the tops of the office radiators, clearing the dust, leaving my mark, as I were already preparing to say good bye to those colleagues I'd work with for almost 5 years. Through thick and thin, good times and not so good times. They were a great team. It was a great company. Just that I had my things to do, and they had theirs, and well, our paths no longer were the same.

The thousands of online sales and marketing jobs looked both exciting and daunting at the same time. Then there was the constant feeling of not knowing if it would be a step forward or a step backward. Was an opportunity really necessarily going to be a good opportunity? Did I want to have to move house. Again?

I felt reasonably settled where I was. But in a small town you there's little alternative if you're in a sales or marketing role like mine. I could deal with a commute maybe.

At least when searching online for a new sales job you can get to whittle it down to preferences. Though at the same it can leave you with a lot of choice. So it takes time to weigh up the options. Sometimes I wonder if there were less choice I would be happier as I would have to take less time to make a decision.

Though applying online is, on balance, quicker and easier. Especially when you're just browsing. But I'm not browsing now. I applied for some new jobs on a fairly easy to use marketing job web site. I got some interviews, and out of two offers chose the one closest to home. I commute to and from the new office where I'm mostly based. It's not too far from home and now I'm learning new stuff, doing new stuff, essentially being where I want to be.

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Jesse writing about marketing jobs
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