Seraphim’s blog for the day

 It’s little wonder so many actors and other artists are leaving Utah.

 Over the past several years I’ve heard so much about how Utah is growing artistically, and yet, as an artist, a writer, and a student of Game Development (console and PC) I find myself in a situation where I am STILL working for Convergys after almost six long years, and I have just barely gotten a raise that puts me over $10.00 an hour, despite consistently high semi-annual review scores, that have kept me in the Quality contributor to Key Quality contributor range. Worse yet, the managers at this department hate me, and constantly persecute me, ridiculing me publicly, and often times making me feel that my job is threatened, or accusing me of being “the only one” to make certain minor mistakes despite co-workers complaining about similar lack of familiarity with obscure polices, and making the same minor mistakes. (Please note I blame the management of this department soley for all of it! I'm sure Convergy's itself is a good company.)

 Yet why am I here? What are my skills? Drawing, writing, acting, and martial arts. I have some computer skills as well, but no certifications… yet. Convergys wasn’t always bad, but I am at a point where I have had it with the (mis)management of the department I work for, and yet when I try to find a job that would be more in line with my skills very little, or next to nothing comes up in the state of Utah.

  Sometime try putting Games, Art, film, or Entertainment and Salt Lake City Utah into a search field on www.monster.com… Now put in Customer service… See what I mean? There’s just not much here for people like us who are more artistic in our nature. Personally I would love to see that change, and I love Utah (as a whole) but I’m beginning to fear that a move out of state may be inevitable as well, and perhaps sooner than I would have liked.

      It’s a shame that Utah offers so few opportunities for people like me to work in the fields that they were born for.