Weird career situation...need some feedback

[TKahn85]

So I just graduated from college and landed a marketing rep job for a fairly big and respected company.

I had before that about 5 years of sales experience for a fairly respected local company (inside sales).

My first week on the job consisted of my boss telling me a) there would be no training because I missed the dates for that, I was going to have to go to an 8-year veteran employees storage locker and demand that he give me his keys to it (because he was being put on a termination program), and the job continued to sprial downward from there.

I am still confused about how this could have happened. This job sounded like a dream job to me. I quit my existing job, moved to a new area, far away from family/friends, and it turned into a disaster.

After talking about it with my father and some friends I decided I was too uncomfortable with the questionable ethics/lack of professionalism of my boss. I asked to resign only a week into the career.

I could tell my boss was in trouble after I told him this. His boss apparently pressured him to offer me a different territory and some other perks.

I still decided to leave because they were only giving me a day to re-locate again, find an apartment, and jump right into the lions den with no training, and an unethical boss.

So that's what happened. I made my decision and I have to live with it.

I am young but I still want to get into the job market as fast as possible. How should I sell myself? Should I just mention my employer that I worked for 5 years for and move on? I do not like talking negatively about employers and I do not want a potential employer to think I would quit my first week with them.

What's funny is I usually need structure to be happy but quitting that job, the job I thought would be great and that I worked hard to get, was the best feeling ever. I think it's because I knew the ethics were questionable, the training was zero, and my family/friends were so far away.

[vertizontal]

It's not necessary to mention this very short-term job. Future employers aren't going to demand that you mention every moment of your life (unless it's a high security government position).

If this prior job ever does come up in conversation, you can truthfully say that the actual job was very different than the way it was described to you. You can then give it a positive spin by saying that you won't accept a position unless you know that you would be a great fit, you would give your heart and soul to the company, you'd name your children after your boss, yadda, yadda.

[Count Blucher]

1 week? Give thanks that it didn't take you 6 months (or more) to see the light. True, every job has a learning curve and is a challenge at first. Still, threads abound re: bad ones that were found out months or years later.

[glee]

You have my sympathy.

I left a high-paying computing job to take my 'dream position' in a hobby organisation.
It turned out to be a waste of time (after 3 months, they told me there was a massive hole in the accounts and I had to sack the other 3 employees and do everything myself. )
I left and found a much better job.

For what it's worth I did include this on my CV.
After all, I was accepted for the post. I was ready to give a diplomatic truthful version of what happened, but nobody asked about it.

[TKahn85]

yeah, thanks for the feedback

[Frank]

Originally Posted by TKahn85

yeah, thanks for the feedback

This is the boss that wanted you to live in Manhattan, right?

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