Hi guys,
I'm 25 and about 4 months ago I landed what I thought was a dream job. I was doing marketing for a small scale solar panel company. I was able to land a job at a massive media group that owns over 80 radio stations. I get to work from home 3 days of the week, I get free up close tickets to sports games and concerts, I can work at night or on weekends and swap out my regular hour time, and they also wanted someone with 3-4 years experience and I only had 1 and they still took a chance on me.
So I got the job (The job involves managing a team of sales reps and managing all of the clients they're able to sell advertising too) and it's been 4 months. They started out training me very slowly and carefully. Then one day they called me and told me a team member was leaving so I would get his client list.
I went from managing 3 clients and 2 sales reps to managing 60 clients and 5 sales reps. Then the person who was “training me” landed a huge client and I was left to my own devices trying to tackle 60 clients when I still haven't even been fully trained.
They drastically overwork me. I'll have 5-7 clients messaging me at once asking for me to complete different tasks for them and they all seem to be needed “Asap” or “right now”. They have me constantly working so hard that I get too stressed / anxious to even eat.
Another negative is the work load follows me home every day. When I forget things or lose track of a client they may not go live on time or certain creatives uploaded when they should be. So every day I go home I'm constantly thinking about all of the client's I may have forgotten to do work for.
When clients get angry (due to me not getting things right or done quick enough) they can threaten to cancel advertising with us or just straight out cancel. So if a client cancels then one of the sales reps I manage lose their commission/pay.
So I was left with only a little training on 3 clients. Then I was thrown into managing over 50 clients without getting to finish being trained. And now I have a aggressive workload that requires immense effort. And even when I work as hard as I can I'll still miss / forget certain things since there's so many clients to manage. Then when I mess up with a client they can cancel and lose my sales rep their pay which makes those people hate me as well.
The job did pay $12,000 more than my previous job which is an amazing step up (I now make 60k/Yr). I've only been at this new job 4 months this week but it feels like an eternity lol.
I guess what I wanted to ask is if this is normal. Im only 25 and I have limited professional experience. If I want to make good money and keep moving up in the business world should I expect to be working this hard and be this stressed on a daily basis? It really worry's me getting so anxious about work that I sick multiple mornings a week. But I don't want to go looking for another job if every single job I find for good pay will be this hard.
Is this kind of feeling normal? Should I just keep my chin up and force myself through being upset at work to keep gaining more skills and experience? I just need some people to help me think things through right now. Thinking about the overwhelming feeling of the job makes me want to break down into tears.
Thanks guys