I started a new role which involves performing quality control on documents. Apparently they have been wanting to hire someone in this role for years, but the role didn't generate much interest as it's quite niche (and some may say tedious). It also required me to pass a test during recruitment which was essentially doing a QC check of a mock document.
I would say that I'm quite a meticulous, detail-orientated person when it comes to work. Previous colleagues would also tell me this too, so I think I do naturally have those qualities.
However, I've been in my new role for a month now, and I've been reviewing documents and then having my manager review them afterwards. She keeps finding lots of things that I have missed - some of them are things I wouldn't have even known to look for to be honest, there are so many things to check for. These are documents produced by talented and highly experienced senior people, so it's not like they are loaded with obvious typos but there are lots of subtle things like the amount of significant figures that data is written to not being consistent throughout, or a percentage may not have been rounded up or down correctly (so I redo all their calculations to check).
I've not been getting any positive feedback from my manager, I'm just being sent my work back to me with all of her additional comments added in. I don't know if that's normal at this stage or whether I've been doing a bad job. I'm writing a big checklist of everything she mentions to try and not repeat it, but it feels never ending.