Creating your own job

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I’ve been giving some thought lately on potentially trying to create a new role for myself at work this year. Like… maybe I can pitch the idea of my dream job and create it for myself. Just kinda noodling on it and tossing some ideas around in my head. I’m not sure if I actually want to do this or not.

I spoke with my mentor about it this week and he suggested that I think hard about what would be part of this role, how it is different from existing roles, what value it brings, etc. and then put together a proposal.

I created myself a project at work which I used for my capstone in my masters program last semester. In the 3 months that I worked on it (in the evenings, off hours), I found about $1.4 million/year in savings. I really enjoyed what I was doing. My thought is to potentially try and turn something similar to that into a full time role. I’ve been putting together a presentation for my VP (I am in Corporate America) on my findings from my project and next steps for implementing them. I was thinking that might be as good of a time as any to bring up the fact that I’d love to do that for an actual job… if I decide that I want to go this direction. I think my research alone proves that I can save us enough money to pay for my role.

Has anyone ever done this? If so, do you have any advice?

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My H was told by his supervisor to write up all the many and varied things he was currently doing at his workplace (that were far above the job requirements), the supervisor posted the job and H was the only applicant and got the job, promotion and raise.

I created a nonprofit, wrote grants and the grants to pay for what our state needed and run my nonprofit for the next 6 years. As part of the budget I was able to hire healthcare worker friends on an on call hourly basis. Our nonprofit continues long after grants ended.

These aren’t exactly what you’re talking about but it sounds like you have support and the savings alone should cover your salary.

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Sure why not. If your saving the company that much and it’s feasible then go for it. Always, bet on yourself. Many companies hire people to do exactly what your doing BTW. N