Sometimes I think about how I’d love to have a different job because I don’t really like my current one, but I’m not sure if I don’t like it because it just isn’t my type of job, or if it’s because I just hate working in general. Can anyone give me their opinion on how good/bad my job actually is?
I’m working as an admin assistant for an accounting firm. For someone who studied graphic design, very boring. I only took this job because the graphic design market is not doing too good right now, and I needed to be doing something to make money. It’s a small family business, and I’m the only one who isn’t in the family. It gets very lonely here as I don’t really have coworkers. It’s basically just me and my boss, and he can be very stubborn about the way he wants things to get done. However, he’s still a nice guy.
The one coworker i do have is his daughter, and we get along very well but she’s barely here because she only works part time, and on top of that some days she works remote. I was not made aware that she would be out of the office so much when first interviewing here. Meanwhile, I am never given the option to work remote and have to be in office 5x a week from 9-5. It feels a little unfair, but again I know I am the only one who isn’t family, so.
One of my main responsibilities is answering phones, which I despise because I have social anxiety. I kind of just accepted i’d have to take a job that involves phones because it’s hard to find a job that doesn’t. But I’m expected to answer every call, there’s no one else here that takes them except me. Sometimes my boss’ daughter does, but again she is barely here.
A lot of the responsibilities at this job end up falling on my lap since I am the main person here, if that makes sense. If something needs to be done, I am the first person that everyone runs to.
At the same time, I like how this job is not too stressful/toxic, plus my boss takes vacations a lot so I get a lot of days where I’m just here by myself doing my thing without anyone to interrupt. But on the flip side, if someone calls and I have questions, it’s hard to get in touch with my boss when he isn’t here.
As a 23 year old girl, I guess I just feel like it’s hard to work with a stubborn boomer (feels like i’m working with my dad lol), and I hate the pressure of responsibility. I also have to tell my boss every time I step out of the office to use the bathroom in case the phone rings, so he knows to answer it lol. I know that makes sense but it feels so humiliating to let my boss know every time I have to step out.
I know it doesn’t sound like the worst job in the world, but I do wish I had coworkers to make my job more enjoyable some days. I don’t know much about accounting yet am still expected to just ‘know’ how to do things even with not the best training. I am told to do tasks and sometimes don’t know how to do them because i never learned, and I don’t really have a mentor to ask (my boss is not a great teacher).
So is my job that bad? Or am i just overreacting because I hate working in general?