I need advice here. I was hired on to advise students getting their PhDs in the yoU Cee system here in California. This job has turned into hell. I'm doing a whole other job outside of my job description, student employee human resources (which includes placing all of our guaranteed students with employment, making sure students who applied anywhere get a job and funding, hiring processes and onboarding, and payroll. Our payroll system is notoriously awful BTW.
All of our processes are over complicated, not super well documented, and there's always exceptions to rules or changes.
Learning two super complicated, very detailed jobs simultaneously has been brain breaking. I'm drowning here.
My boss clearly hates me and has chosen me as the new person to take out all her frustrations. I have made mistakes, I'll cop to that, but I'm training myself, and you don't know what you don't know until someone reams you around here.
She wants to meet again on Thursday to go over our communication issues and me not knowing all of this stuff yet. I'm over six months into the role, but it's been rapid fire doing tasks and putting out fires the whole time. I feel like I can't ever catch my breath.
How do I deal with the stress? How do I pull myself out of this funk where everyday feels like it's going to break me?
Thanks for your advice, fellow Redditors!
I'm having a really hard time and already took medical mental health leave.