[psim1]

I worked as a student employee in IT at a university department for two years. Upon graduation, I had no job prospects but the department was posting a full-time job for which I was impeccably qualified (it was basically my student job and then some). I applied to it and got the job.

Some of my colleagues recognized the transition from student employee to professional, but strangely enough, my own boss never made the mental transition. She continued to treat me like a student in a number of degrading ways, offering condescending advice about preparing for my future and so on. I say this with a 20-year hindsight. I look back at the relationship and still think it was degrading. Within a year I applied to a different department where I got a fresh start and immediately was treated as an IT professional (though junior, of course).

I learned from this that some people are always going to see you like they first saw you. Your mother is going to always see you as the adolescent with the messy bedroom, even when you're 40. Your student job boss is always going to see you as a student.

[CRConrad]

> I learned from this that some people are always going to see you like they first saw you.

Yup.

> Your mother is going to always see you as the adolescent with the messy bedroom, even when you're 40.

Nope. She's going to keep seeing you just the same way she saw you when you were the adolescent with the messy bedroom, namely as her little baby.

Even when you're 60.

[HumblyTossed]

This is why a lot of businesses (retail especially) don't like to promote from within the same location.

[rramadass]

>I learned from this that some people are always going to see you like they first saw you.

First impressions matter most !