Thanks - I did have a lengthy discussion with one other employee who dealt with this issue for our MD; he was quite clear that it's company's "culture" that we only work for the good of company and then company will see to it that we're rewarded for the efforts.
While this sounds nice if you're a small company where everyone shares the responsibility and the monetary gains, we mostly hire people who will work cheap and long; it was hinted to me that my career in there moved really fast compared to others and I'm still on the lower end of salary for my role/responsibilities in the area. As a result, I'm looking at options where my personal time and ideas are valued more, both when it comes to work and personal side projects (which, don't forget, improve my skills I use for company work)
Besides, I'm back where I started, working on horrific wordpress projects, with me learning little now and it became about me (and some others) educating co-workers and directors, who are too stubborn in their ways to understand what we do, resulting in ridiculous proposals sent to clients
I have decided to move on, just working on my CV/resume and looking for the right time.
Yes, I've been told to look first and then resign, I'm a bit concerned about telling my potential new employer not to ask for my references just yet haha - I'm sure they'll need to know what my reasons are and I hate making stuff up, not sure how to explain this and actually many other reasons for looking for new job without smearing my current employer.
I've found one company I'll probably get in touch with and before sending my CV I'll phone them ask and try to explain I need this to be confidential. Think it's reasonable to ask for that.
Thanks for the link, but sadly there's no one in London looking for PHP devs from that list (checked this year's) - it makes me think my side projects should be ruby / python focused...
I've been playing with code since I was 12, mostly HTML5, CSS3, JS, PHP, SQL, because that was easiest to approach, now almost 2 years commercial experience working in agency with these technologies. I understand it's not enough to work for one of the big players, but I think I'd be most happy in a small agency where I could work on side projects to learn other technologies :)
While this sounds nice if you're a small company where everyone shares the responsibility and the monetary gains, we mostly hire people who will work cheap and long; it was hinted to me that my career in there moved really fast compared to others and I'm still on the lower end of salary for my role/responsibilities in the area. As a result, I'm looking at options where my personal time and ideas are valued more, both when it comes to work and personal side projects (which, don't forget, improve my skills I use for company work)
Besides, I'm back where I started, working on horrific wordpress projects, with me learning little now and it became about me (and some others) educating co-workers and directors, who are too stubborn in their ways to understand what we do, resulting in ridiculous proposals sent to clients
I have decided to move on, just working on my CV/resume and looking for the right time.