Please help - struggling with a work situ and not sure if I'm just being pathetic. It has really been affecting me - for context, it's a finance/audit-type grad scheme and I am 2 years in.
- Only female in all-male team
- Brand new team, all colleagues I have never worked with before
- Slight language/cultural barrier between me and my direct manager
- Work I have never done before - it's not hard per se, but it is time consuming, requires thought and is poorly explained to me.
It's probably no coincidence that I don't feel like I'm performing as well as I could be in light of all of the above. I don't really like the day-to-day work I do anyway, and am seriously considering changing jobs.
Does anyone have any advice to help me get through it? I stupidly confided in a (male) colleague at my level that I found my direct manager's mgmt style hard to deal with, and he has mentioned it to a few external people, stating that I am having difficult adapting to our overseas colleagues' ways! I find the general lack of support quite overwhelming and while I get on socially with the team, the all maleness makes it quite hard to properly bond - we do spend a lot of social time together and get on fine (e.g. go out for beers, meals) but I don't play sports games with them etc, which I think has been good for their bonding!!