To be sick of doing crappy admin jobs

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I’ve found myself working as an personal assistant/executive assistant/project co-ordinator. I’m living in an area where salaries are low, there aren’t good jobs around and I’m temping in the public sector in an admin type role.

I keep being told by friends and family I could do more with my life. And I agree. I don’t want to be a decade older and still in an admin role. I find administrators are always over-loaded with work and looked down on by more senior/professional people. And admin is something that will be further outsourced and automated over the next decade or so.

I’m also incredibly bored and miserable at work. Answering emails, filling in databases, diary management etc is not satisfying me.

I have a degree, a project management qualification, various NVQs and certificates.

Financially, DP and I are pretty sorted. He is very supportive of me leaving work. I have a few ideas for self-employment and savings as a back up.

I’m also looking at doing a L3 Award in Education and Training (PTLLS) at the local FE college as I like the idea of working in further education or as a trainer. Also looking at the NEBOSH course as health and safety also interests me.

DP is military and we are due to move again next year so a job that I can do anywhere would be really beneficial.

Any thoughts?

Stonebridge college do an online CAVA course if you want to be an assessor. Good luck

Admin is a very changed profession now as people do their own emails, audio & transcription really only happen in legal and medical now.

My last admin role was in a university and the career and earning potential was fantastic (I only left because of being a FT carer).

My role before that (5 year gap) was as a long term temp PA post to the Head of Food, Health & Safety at our LA. If you decide to go for the NEBOSH, look for who handles the LAs temp contract as they will have a specific agency for temp admin staff. It was a fantastic and fascinating environment to work in. My old boss took me along to food hygiene emergency inspections, local radio interviews, I organised conferences and an event for the launch of the food hygiene scores. I had to sit in a meeting at local HSE office being the only person taking minutes for a group of over 20 delegates. I processed licensing applications, fielded complaints from . The only reason I didn't stay and train up is DD2 came along and had health needs so I took a career break and had to take back my permanent application of O would have trained up myself Literally, the only admin job I never stopped.

Are you me? Got bored teaching, and now a PA. I'm doing a post grad Psychology Diploma, online (I can do at any speed i like as there's no set lectures to attend, so it's pretty quick as I'm doing more than the part time hours suggested as a rough 'guide' ). I plan to be a Counsellor specialising in grief & depression. I wish I'd done it when I left teaching but I panicked re £ & back then pre recession there was a glut of v lucrative maternity cover work.

Those crappy admin jobs are a job creation scheme, without them there would be many more unemployed people.

Thanks for the replies - made up my mind to quit and be self employed

Going to do another few weeks in my crappy temp job to get some more money, then I’ll be free!