Well since this is a recent topic.
I have been a manager in one form or another for 20 years. Mostly small box retail but recently more involved in logistics. I always seem to hit a glass ceiling, so for the last 3.5 years I have been doing school full time and working 50+ hour weeks. Just graduated in may with degrees in leadership, human resource management and business administration.
I had my career on an upward path for a bit but ran into some strange occurrences.
2014-2015 workedas a multi unit manager for a company that went bankrupt, worked for another year for a company that then closed my location, worked a year at a job that was not a good fit but paid the bills. Took another job similar to the one that closed my location and after about a year was let go. When I asked why I wasn’t given a reason. Went to work for a company in a job that I absolutely loved. I was there for two years made a huge impression and was very successful. Made a mistake and then called my boss out for lying and weirdly enough that led to me being let go when he started nitpicking every single thing I did. Went back to retail for a big box company. Actually enjoyed what I did all was going well again and then out of nowhere told I was being demoted. Took the demotion and worked my tail off. Working on a transfer to another location and was told that I was being demoted again until I could get the transfer completed. During the 6 months leading up to this I filed 4 ethics complaints which went unresolved. Unfair work practices, HIPAA violations, and unequal treatment were the subjects of the complaints.
. A lot of companies don’t want to touch me right now because of my work history over the past 7 years. Human resource positions aren’t offered to me because non of my job titles had HR in them though I have done all of the jobs within the scope of work.
Currently working as a shipping manager. Good money but I work nights. For now I am trying to put my head down and just work for a year or two to have some tenure before looking again. Unless something falls in my lap or an opportunity presents itself with my current company.