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Ok, people are saying I need to MTFU.
However please understand that I do not particularily enjopy working in IT. I am a problem solver, I love problems/challenges almost as much as I love to solve them.
IT is something that tends to be logical/common sense and thats what I'm good at (contrary to popular belief). The reason I did not ask for a raise this time is that a) the company is struggling and I used to be its most expensive assest, now she is and has been here less than a year so shes now a good candidate for redundancy.
I want to get out of IT and retrain which I can do in Q3 this year as my financial circumstances will have chanced enough to permit me to do so. However Im sitll thinking about what to do my degree in, though thats another matter.
I think it was a toys out the pram moment by me, I'm reasonably happy here, just feeling generally undervalued and their excuse is that because they don't see what I do therefore they don't know I've done it. Which I can see being genuine. However I've never been good at selling myself nor being an attention whore by shouting "look at me, and bask in the glory of my success".
I agree that I am not the most personable person in the world. But thats because Im a bit of a c*ck. Opinionated, like a debate and have the really bad habbit of going out my way to make a point when I think a point needs to be made. There are lots of good qualities too, honest.
If you're that critical to the company then you should be fairly compensated. However if the company isn't doing too well then it may not have the cash-flow to do that right now. I would argue for a future pay rise or a bonus scheme and if they agree then get it in writing so they can't wriggle out of it.
Unfortunately people in sales should inherently be good at selling themselves - you may be the IT guy but if you don't sell yourself as well as the other employees then you're at risk of always being undervalued.
Sounds fairly typical in IT. I wasn't trying to be critical in my post - it's just the way we work unfortunately.
There are rewards to be had later in your career though.
IME in a small company it never pays to be the nice guy.