A bit of advice on the job front. Jobs are something that YOU do for someone else. If your perception of your value there is higher than there perception of your value then you have two choices. 1> Improve their perception of your value, do this as you would run any ad campaign, document what you do for the company, look for ways to do more, document the ways that you improve the bottom line of the company, ways that you MAKE THE COMPANY MONEY! Everyone that works for the company must make the company money. The more you can show what you make the more that you can then tell them that you want to get paid out of the amount that you make. 2> Sell your services to another company. If the partner that you are dancing with keeps stepping on your toes then you might try getting a new dance partner. Remember that you are in charge of you career and your job satisfaction, not your boss. You are the one that determins how much you make, look carefully at what you do, instead of thinking how can I get more money out of this situation think, "How can I make myself so indispensable to this company that the mearerest hint of my taking employement somewhere else would cause them to have a panic attack and get out the checkbook." In doing so you will also generate more skills and accomplishements to put on a resume which will get you a better paying job. Generally the largest pay raises will come when you switch employers. This is because the employer that you are working for already knows what the minimum that you will settle for is, and therefore will only pay you the least that he can get away with. A new employer wants your skills and abilities and is willing to pay up to the maximum he can to get them. The maximum that he can is determined by what he sees that you can do for his company. SO accomplish something and go out and get a DIFFERENT job, which will pay more. Don't complain, train on the job, and in Aikido.

A bit of advice on the job front. Jobs are something that YOU do for someone else. If your perception of your value there is higher than there perception of your value then you have two choices. 1> Improve their perception of your value, do this as you would run any ad campaign, document what you do for the company, look for ways to do more, document the ways that you improve the bottom line of the company, ways that you MAKE THE COMPANY MONEY! Everyone that works for the company must make the company money. The more you can show what you make the more that you can then tell them that you want to get paid out of the amount that you make. 2> Sell your services to another company. If the partner that you are dancing with keeps stepping on your toes then you might try getting a new dance partner. Remember that you are in charge of you career and your job satisfaction, not your boss. You are the one that determins how much you make, look carefully at what you do, instead of thinking how can I get more money out of this situation think, "How can I make myself so indispensable to this company that the mearerest hint of my taking employement somewhere else would cause them to have a panic attack and get out the checkbook." In doing so you will also generate more skills and accomplishements to put on a resume which will get you a better paying job. Generally the largest pay raises will come when you switch employers. This is because the employer that you are working for already knows what the minimum that you will settle for is, and therefore will only pay you the least that he can get away with. A new employer wants your skills and abilities and is willing to pay up to the maximum he can to get them. The maximum that he can is determined by what he sees that you can do for his company. SO accomplish something and go out and get a DIFFERENT job, which will pay more. Don't complain, train on the job, and in Aikido.