Alli Peck reflects on her first year at a new job as a program manager at a Seattle-based medical device company (video dated June 11, 2023). She reports high satisfaction (rates it 10/10): she works remotely from Las Vegas, has a supportive manager who understands her goals and strengths, is informally mentoring colleagues and receiving mentorship on strategy, and feels meaningful alignment working on a cancer diagnostics project. She notes increased domain fluency (acronyms/genetic mutation terms) and describes the role as adequately challenging but low-stress.
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I just had my one year anniversary from the job that I'm currently working at. So if you guys remember, about a year ago I was job searching, I bought an RV because the startup I was working at in San Francisco wanted me to come on site and I was like, I'll try to make that work. But it didn't work. So I found a new job. I've been there for a year. I'm a program manager for a medical device company in Seattle. I work remotely from home in Las Vegas and I gotta say, it's gonna going really well. I give it a 10 out of 10 and here's why. So my manager, first of all, I feel like he really gets me. He knows what I like and what I don't like for work. He knows what my long term career goals are, he knows what I'm good at and what I'm not so good at and the things that I really want for my long term career goals. I love mentoring, I love being a leadership. Regardless of my title. I'm not a manager, I don't have direct reports, but I am getting to mentor a couple people right now at work unofficially and it's really rewarding for me because I get to see them being challenged, succeeding, growing their confidence, being challenged, succeeding, growing their confidence. I love that confidence cycle. And I also have an unofficial mentor at work and she is also helping me grow my confidence. She's teaching me about strategy and I am loving, loving, loving it. And I really like the project that I'm on. I'm working on a cancer diagnostics project and it's just really rewarding. I feel like the mission of the company aligns with my mission which is helping to improve the quality of life for people out there who are sick or have disease or cancer. It's really rewarding on a deep soul level for me. So overall a year in, it's going really well. I finally feel like I understand what all the acronyms are, what all the genetic mutation acronyms mean. And yeah, I just feel like I have a good handle on what I'm doing. I feel adequately challenged, but low stress and overall it's really good.
