Ok, so I have my first job fresh out of college and I love it. It’s a contract position with a company and I’m doing inventory work for the federal gov through an outside contractor. My contract is until March 2024 and at that point it will either be renewed or I’ll be moved/offered another contract somewhere else. I started in late July and it has been great, that is until last Friday, when I along with 5 other newer employees got pulled for a ‘special inventory project’ which is basically sitting in storage and counting up materials to be processed for the contract renewal in March. It’s only been 3 full days of this and already I feel like I’m gonna snap, it’s so fucking boring and I feel like this isn’t what my contract is for. My coworkers are also pissed for the same reasons but we have to suck it up until March or ‘whenever this project is finished.’ I don’t mind working but we can’t have any devices in storage for security reasons so it’s literal silence and ceiling fans buzzing away. I know a coworker of mine is already job hunting and frankly I don’t blame him but I don’t want to do that. I was hopeful that my contract would be renewed in March because the next project is projected to take 5 years at least as the current project I was contracted for is the pilot for this and others down the line. I know this job isn’t my only options and I have other options it’s just I feel like I’m going to snap before the end of this inventory project bullshit. I also don’t want to complain or talk with my team leads about my problems because I don’t want to oust myself if they are going to not renew some of our contracts. I realize this was just a massive, probably incoherent, rant but I just needed to put it out there before I go nuts.
If you made it this far have a cookie.
Edit: Also please do not just say ‘Suck it up’ ‘This is life’ that kind of stuff. I know that, believe me, I do, I am just worried for my mental health and whether I should just tell my bosses I quit after finding another job (literally anything would be better).