Growing up it was completely normal for any family event or holiday/vacation to be interrupted if the client needed my dad for something and my mom was his admin.
I'm 37 now and I'm an overachiever/people pleaser at work. I take on extra responsibilities and fix things that I have no business fixing. I've also developed tools that make hours of work into minutes, all that just makes my manager/team look good.
I'm work-from-home IT Call Center its leaving me to do a large portion of work that is now mine because I offered to do it to get the task done for the end user.
I'm still the lowest paid full-time employee, and I've made myself into the authority on several matters that nobody else wanted to deal with. (Provisioning Online Accounts, applications and simple automation)
I work my ass off and I'm about to have to go into our year end meeting where they're going to be giving out awards and shit and I just feel stupid for putting forth so much effort and not getting anything out of it other than my boss's boss saying, “Wy3Naut likes to do that, right?” and loads me up with extra work because my co-worker never learned, won't learn how to do the task in the first place.
The company I work for is good, especially when new ownership took over but I've worked myself into this position by people pleasing.
If any of you have been in my situation, how did you stop? I'm well pass burnt out.