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I earn £50k and barely do any work - AIBU?

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lexjoey · 18/07/2022 12:28

I competed my MSc in 2020, managed to get onto a very good grad scheme and landed a role where my current line manager and his "right hand" woman barely have time to share work with me. TBF I would not have accepted this scenario if it had not been for Covid, I was just grateful to have a job but honestly I do about 15 hours worth of work per week and just waste time for the rest. I will say I complete one ouptut which the team hates.

It makes me feel like a great big lump of useless space and I plan to move jobs in the near-ish future. I've witnessed my sister go from being a wet blanket to the ultimate professional which has only highlighted the fact I have reached a dead end with this corp/team.

I'm really not gloating, just curious if anyone has found themselves in this position. On the one hand, I am lucky but it's only a ST solution and I really DO want to develop and I'm just stagnating.

The 2 people above me are very possessive with their work and don't have the time to upskill me.

AIBU?

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DustyDoorframes · 04/03/2023 10:12

@lexjoey , how is it going? Have you managed to move on?
one thing I’ve not seen suggested (until you get a new job!) is taking on some pro bono work- statisticians for society run an interesting programme, or DataKind. At least you’d be getting stuck into a project, and doing something genuinely useful while keeping that teams dot green!

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