My job

Today I had a long discussion with my Branch Head. Surprisingly enough, previous Branch Heads and my previous Division Head (Branch Head reports to Division Head, reports to Department Head...) had all recommended that I pursue a Branch Head position myself. This Branch Head, the current one (it will change on Oct 1st to another person) was surprised to hear that. He told me he saw me more as an S&T (Science and Technology) guy himself and had never considered me 'branch head material'.

Lovely. So, for the past couple of years I have been working toward a goal that this Branch Head does not support for me, but he never told me... his Division Head supported it and she never discussed it with him. Just me. So... Wasted 2 years of work on something because I stupidly thought that my Division Head, Former Branch Head, and Branch Head might have discussed my career... seeing as how I had asked all of them about this over the last two years and today this one all of the sudden has not one clue that that was my career aspiration!

and they wonder why I feel that this job is a dead end for me.