I'll have to change details here as this could be outing. I worked abroad for many years, and have a good education (finance, law), excellent organisational and administration skills, and excellent technical skills. I have moved back to the North of England and wanted a 'nice' admin job. I find myself in a PA job where I am working flat out all day, simply due to the amount of demands placed on me. I handle it all, well, but I hate every minute and am wrung out and exhausted and stressed post work every day. My boss is not a nice person - I feel I am a minion to be dumped upon. I am scared to move to another PA job in case this is now just the norm. I'm scared to apply for something like Project Management in case that would be even more stressful. I'm scared to try to do something like become a postman in case I then deskill myself out of work that I now hate. I suppose my questions are: for long term PAs, has the job changed dramatically over the past 20 years, or was I just lucky in the past having a more interesting, manageable workload and pleasant boss; 2 has anyone got to the point where they just can't bear it any more, and moved into another sort of role which seems less frenetic/friendly...fun?
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Have PA roles become much more stressful, or am I past it?
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dreamofastressfreelife · 13/03/2019 23:50
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