Time to AW your professional accomplishments!

[stretchad]

After the promotion I got last May, and the new role I'm taking starting this august, I'll be making 20k more than I was making before my Promotion...Woohoo!

[Deleted]

I am getting a bonus this week along with a 3.3% raise. The bonus is performance based and is another paycheck essentially. My new boss gets here July 1st. I will begin a 16 week program in August for my work which will broaden my field of experience and open new jobs to me.

I have 3.5 more months per obligation and so as soon as my program finishes this fall, i will be applying to jobs like crazy. My performance on paper is great but I do feel absolutely lazy at work because I'm doing standard work IMO.

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Jun 21, 2016 12:52:57 GMT -5 stretchad said:

After the promotion I got last May, and the new role I'm taking starting this august, I'll be making 20k more than I was making before my Promotion...Woohoo!

That's amazing!!! Congratulations!  

[shamrockshake]

My company was acquired by another company earlier in the year, my anxiety has been high to say the least. Last week my boss was talking to the new company CFO and after the call he relayed to me that new co CFO asked how I was and then asked if I was happy. My boss told him, yes, I think she's very happy (I am, though still anxious about the unknown) and CFO said, good, you tell me if she's ever not "very happy" because we're very happy with her and the work she's been doing so we want to make sure she stays happy So that was nice to hear.

While I liked my job before the acquisition I was pretty much as far up as I was ever going in the company, I am picking up more reponsibilities now and I am really enjoying it and it's nice to have positive feedback.

[mrsd2006]

I got a raise and a promotion last month! But I kinda had to, I've maxed out in my pay grade so technically I wasn't eligible for a merit increase but I still got 3% (which is typical). But I should have been promoted years ago, TBH. I think I kinda got screwed, my promotion came with a 10% raise and I since got a 3% merit increase in March, so I only received 7% when my promotion was official. But at least they backdated it a month.

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Jun 21, 2016 13:38:46 GMT -5 mrsd2006 said:

I got a raise and a promotion last month! But I kinda had to, I've maxed out in my pay grade so technically I wasn't eligible for a merit increase but I still got 3% (which is typical). But I should have been promoted years ago, TBH. I think I kinda got screwed, my promotion came with a 10% raise and I since got a 3% merit increase in March, so I only received 7% when my promotion was official. But at least they backdated it a month.

I jealous. My 3% is a merit increase. I'd have to blow someone to get 4% increase (4% is max increase). 

That is also bullshit on your raise. I would ASSume 13%.  

[mrssandro]

I am about to get a offer letter that is nearly 6 digits (with the benefits/bonus/PTO the value is well over 6 digits) and I am so happy. I worked hard for this but it also awesome that I am finally doing exactly that I wanted to do.

[mrsd2006]

Jun 21, 2016 13:48:26 GMT -5 @lemonlover said:

Jun 21, 2016 13:38:46 GMT -5 mrsd2006 said:

I got a raise and a promotion last month! But I kinda had to, I've maxed out in my pay grade so technically I wasn't eligible for a merit increase but I still got 3% (which is typical). But I should have been promoted years ago, TBH. I think I kinda got screwed, my promotion came with a 10% raise and I since got a 3% merit increase in March, so I only received 7% when my promotion was official. But at least they backdated it a month.

I jealous. My 3% is a merit increase. I'd have to blow someone to get 4% increase (4% is max increase). 

That is also bullshit on your raise. I would ASSume 13%.  

And that's for Exceeding Expectations on my annual review But I have 4 weeks vacation, am 5 miles from home and get off early on Fridays and wear jeans, so there are some good things  

[hamster]

I haven't killed any coworkers?

Actually, I'm kicking assume at my job. I'm developing a great strategy for community partners and sponsorships, and doing more high profile events.

[theblissisback]

Today marks 1.5 years for my biz.

That's a pretty damn good! I'm so excited and so proud of myself!

I can't wait to see what evolves over the next few years.

[Deleted]

hamster, reminds me of a confession. I did not realize coirker was a play on coworker. In my mind, I was pronouncing it "corker" and I thought it just was a nickname one person gave their annoying coworker. co-irker... yeah. I swear this has taken me damn near a YEAR to figure out.

[Mushe]

I was just offered a pretty amazing promotion! There's basically no more money, because it's government, but they added the position with me in mind, and I'll jump from supervising nobody to running a unit of almost 20. Yay!

[Mushe]

farmvillelover, do you ever take clients remotely? We really need wills, and I don't know where to start. Ugh. I'm in CA too.

[keweenawlove]

So far this year I've got two podiums at national conferences!

[Mushe]

Jun 21, 2016 17:23:24 GMT -5 farmvillelover said:

Jun 21, 2016 17:21:23 GMT -5 Mushe said:

farmvillelover, do you ever take clients remotely? We really need wills, and I don't know where to start. Ugh. I'm in CA too.

Of course! I have several from gbcn haha! PM me

yay, thanks!

[jerseyjaybird]

A project of mine won a national award!
And my freelance business is booming, thanks to great relationships I've built with several serious scholars. Sadly, I'm as high in rank---officially and unofficially---as I can get with my current boss in place, and I can't afford to leave. It's all about small victories right now.

[formerlyak]

I posted a while back about the leadership transition at my org and board members questioning my work because of errors they made in budget assumptions before I started last year that resulted in an inflated fundraising goal which was impossible to reach. Well, my team reached it last week, so boo on the doubters! And I spent a good chunk of the day with our new president yesterday and think my job is fairly secure and the jobs of the people who work on my team are fairly secure - at least for this current round of staff reductions.

[idahome]

I'm coming up on my year anniversary at my company and I can't believe the changes I've experienced. I received a huge promotion (now in my own department and reporting directly to a VP) and a nice increase in pay with it ($12,000)! I'm so glad to be where I'm at now and can't wait to see where I go in the future.

[ellipses84]

I've been on maternity leave, but I recently got a raise and a bonus! I was promoted twice in the past 8 months, so my compensation is catching up to that. Both promotions put me in more of a leadership role with a bright future at my company.

[laurensmomma]

So many amazing women in this thread!

[Deleted]

I was admitted to a graduate program today! I'll continue working full-time since it's an online program, but fwiw, it's a "real" program at a "real" Big 10 school that just happens to be online.

I am on the brink of getting my first ever freelance work. They've offered me the work, but it's grant based so they're awaiting funding.

[juliej]

Turned down a job offer to go freelance, and am now making more than I was at my old job (or the offer) and only working 30 hours a week. I'm already interviewing additional help to take on projects as needed when I'm booked – it's only been a month!

[just]

I heard (through some gossip) that my negotiation was hard fought internally. Many were skeptical about bringing someone nationally for a position like mine (ie ITish so easily located, despite the fact that my niche is very specialized), but some people saw that I had the skills that they couldn't get locally. They offered x, I asked for x+8% It went multiple rounds but I got x+6% and an additional 2% if I met exceptional standards at 6 months (and I did - I thought they might try fuck me over with that).

I'm feeling warm and fuzzy that my department fought for me, that they saw something in me and were willing to put money were their mouth was. I'm also fuzzy that I negotiated well. I pushed them to consider my value, beyond their budget.

And more than that ... they're happy with me. They think it was money well spent .... so I didn't sell them a bill of goods

(I will say a TON of that is down to the conversation here. I don't know if I would have ever negotiated the way I did without your advice and inspiration. so go MM!)

YAY!

[just]

Jun 21, 2016 21:39:42 GMT -5 @bellakitty said:

I was admitted to a graduate program today! I'll continue working full-time since it's an online program, but fwiw, it's a "real" program at a "real" Big 10 school that just happens to be online.

I am on the brink of getting my first ever freelance work. They've offered me the work, but it's grant based so they're awaiting funding.

No quotation marks needed!!!

As an academic online designer - if it's a program from a good college, it's a real fucking program and fuck anyone who tells you otherwise. I hope you have a great experience and learn lots. Know it is different to classroom learning but just as rich if you invest the time.

CONGRATULATIONS!!

[konapoppy]

This thread is awesome. We sure have an amazing group of women!

[Deleted]

Jun 21, 2016 23:38:49 GMT -5 just said:

Jun 21, 2016 21:39:42 GMT -5 @bellakitty said:

I was admitted to a graduate program today! I'll continue working full-time since it's an online program, but fwiw, it's a "real" program at a "real" Big 10 school that just happens to be online.

I am on the brink of getting my first ever freelance work. They've offered me the work, but it's grant based so they're awaiting funding.

No quotation marks needed!!!

As an academic online designer - if it's a program from a good college, it's a real fucking program and fuck anyone who tells you otherwise. I hope you have a great experience and learn lots. Know it is different to classroom learning but just as rich if you invest the time.

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Thanks. I do feel the need to justify it to clarify that it's not a shady for-profit online school. The program is relatively new, but the university has a great reputation, alumni network, etc.

[bostonmichelle]

This thread is awesome!!

My boss keeps saying she's very glad she hired me. We are going thru some really rocky times. I hope we all make it out relatively unscathed.

[idahome]

I am loving this thread! It's so great to be in a place where we can "celebrate" one another's accomplishments. Also, reading some of these is inspiring me to work even harder.

[womet]

What a great thread! I haven't been around much since we moved, because I am so busy at work. As a reference, in my last job, the most publications I had going on at one time was three. I am currently working on seven.

Since this is a place to AW professional accomplishments, I am going to AW my H. About a year ago, he and I talked about him applying for Social Security disability because he was having a lot of cognitive trouble because of his fibromyalgia and occipital neuralgia. He got the job here in MD as a contractor at a federal agency (a job he had before and loved). He's been doing so well. So well that he was just hired as a federal employee with the group!!

[dreamcrisp1]

I got a job at another big four, essentially 2 levels higher, and a 13K raise!