I left my full time night security job because I was having up to five panic attacks a day due to the various factors of sleeping until the afternoon, barely seeing my family, and being forced to do mundane non-security tasks, so I got a job in IT working for a software company. I was hired to “work with the software and support team to help organise sprints for new features and development, while studying programming to join the development team next year”.
Since that time I’ve been seconded to the support team entirely and for the last month and a half I’ve been making online bookings for customers and doing general support work. My prospects of joining the development team seem nonexistent and all day long I say and do the exact same thing, creating the same stressful cycle I was in before.
When I first started it was WFH, now I have to drive 40 minutes in traffic just to get here and do the same thing every day. The monotony is really stressing me out, coupled with the fact that I was NOT HIRED TO DO THIS. I’ve been applying everywhere else non stop, even help desk jobs because at least that has a potential career progression and actually involves more IT work. This is just bookings.
How does anybody else deal with the same cycle of “unsatisfying job, leave, get a newer, more unsatisfying job”?