Apologies in advance for lack of specifics but I'll be easily outed if I give too many details.
In short, I left my job of 15 years in a particular industry last year. While I was very good at my job and earning a good salary, my priorities had changed in recent years, particularly after severe PND which took the guts of two years to pass.
My previous job involved long erratic hours across 7 days. Because DH is also working in a similar environment (earning twice what I did) and given my shift in thinking about life, I decided to row back and try to find a job with more "normal" hours so I'd see my kids for longer than an hour a day. I really wanted to be around them more, they're both under 8.
And I did, I landed what's seen on paper as a secure, pensionable job. I started this job two months ago and I hate it. I have never hated a job before the way I hate this. The culture of the place is suffocating, it's taking days, weeks, even to get the most basic requests answered or sorted. My line manager is incredibly lazy and passing the most mundane of tasks to me (sending me an email asking me to send an email... she sits beside me..) There simply isn't enough work to do, there are three of us doing the work of one person really and the days are so long, tedious and frustrating. When I tried to buck things up, suggest other work we could be doing my senior manager looked at me as though I was crazy. I've accepted that I not going to change the culture of this place.
My mood has dropped alarmingly in the past month and I don't know if I'm becoming depressed or because I can't face going into this environment day after day. It's been 6 years since the PND and I've not felt this bad since then.
WWYD? Would you give it a full six months to get a better picture? I think if I have a goal date in mind it'll make life a little easier when I open my eyes at 6am and immediately think "I don't think I can face this again today."
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I hate my new job WWYD?
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turnofftheimmersion · 27/07/2016 08:39
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