I work for a medium sized corporation that is a financial institution in the Marketing Division. I've worked there nearly 13 years and am planning on at least 12 more years before I retire.

I started as an Administrative Assistant and in addition to normal Admin Assistant duties, handled invoicing, helped the Division Director handle our budget, processed sponsorship and donation requests and assisted with advertising requests.

After I had been there 3 years, a position opened up for Marketing Specialist. The primary role of this position was Merchandising for our offices (we have over 100 locations), however, filling my old position was delayed so I ended up doing both jobs for over a year. Once the admin job was filled, I trained my replacement, and took the budget role with me. A couple years later, our website was redesigned using a Content Management System, and our Division took over responsibility for updates. Because I had experience with web design as a freelancer, I took the lead role for updates and new content creation, as well as monitoring our Google Analytics account.

In December of 2014, it was announced that I was being promoted to Marketing Analyst in order to better reflect the work that I was actually doing with the Website and analytics. Merchandising responsibilities were transferred over to another co-worker. Unfortunately, it took over a year for the actual promotion to go through, in the meantime, I trained my co-worker on the merchandising, and took a larger role in managing our website.

At the beginning of this year my budget responsibilities were transferred over to the co-worker who I trained in the Admin Assistant role and I do mainly website development, email campaigns, google analytics, Web Accessibility and soon Search Engine Optimization and more in-depth data analytics. I work closely with our systems division on web development projects. I handle the front end, they (2 systems workers) handle the back end. Starting in 2015 we did a major, year long plus, redesign of our website into a new CMS and I was the Marketing Lead on the project. Currently my job description is being re-written to better reflect what I'm doing, although it is not a promotion.

Despite all that, I am, for the most part just a worker bee. I'm non-exempt and non-titled and have no supervisory responsibility. I've always kind of been a team of one. I am a team player, help out co-workers any time they need it, but I have no fully capable back up in the Marketing Division. The two systems workers are the only ones that can fully complete website projects if I'm out of office.

Other jobs I've worked range from cashiering, farm hand, manufacturing, day care, school age child care program lead, clerical team lead in an insurance company and office manager in a small business. Prior to all that, I was a mechanic in the USAF.