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Is this a reasonable amount of responsibilities?

Maybe I’m just at a new depth of burnout, or I just need someone to agree, but I wondered if y’all think this is a reasonable amount of responsibilities for a job. To give context, I work in social media management and have 5 years of experience and a BA in journalism. My current company works in the mental health sector, which is almost comical due to the lack of benefits or support. Here’s just a quick overview of an average week: Create social copy that is optimized for 4 different platforms, including consistent hashtag research, videos, and graphics Perform outbound engagement across all platforms to garner new follows and get our name out there Write blogs between 1,500-2000 words with backlinking and search engine optimized Create marketing materials for any new clients, including graphics, templated social posts for them to use, and hold training sessions for the less tech…


Maybe I’m just at a new depth of burnout, or I just need someone to agree, but I wondered if y’all think this is a reasonable amount of responsibilities for a job.

To give context, I work in social media management and have 5 years of experience and a BA in journalism. My current company works in the mental health sector, which is almost comical due to the lack of benefits or support.

Here’s just a quick overview of an average week:

  • Create social copy that is optimized for 4 different platforms, including consistent hashtag research, videos, and graphics

  • Perform outbound engagement across all platforms to garner new follows and get our name out there

  • Write blogs between 1,500-2000 words with backlinking and search engine optimized

  • Create marketing materials for any new clients, including graphics, templated social posts for them to use, and hold training sessions for the less tech savvy

  • Proofread all copy written for the website, app, and any major emails written by others on the team

  • Participate in testing sessions of the website/app. Write copy for the platforms and have to create social posts on fly to promote new app features

  • Perform outbound engagement to find stories to share on our platform — including interviewing candidates, editing and captioning videos they supply, and writing a blog

I think that’s everything, or at least the stuff that sticks out the most.

The thing is, I make $40k a year for my experience and education. I was promised a raise in December but it never happened. I was recently promised a raise at the beginning of 2023 haha

Yet, part of me feels like I’m complaining over a normal workload but I’m so exhausted. And I also do contract work on the side to make ends meet, so some weeks I’m working 55+ hours.

I’ve been there for almost a year and have THIRTEEN vacation hours accrued. Thirteen.

Am I valid in my anger and frustration? And I am currently applying for other jobs!

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