To leave a Civil Service role because I'm really not enjoying it?

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I transferred from another Civil Service department on promotion and waiting to hear if I can return to it (that's another story).
However I can't bank on this. I've only been in the role for just under 2 months but I can just tell I am not going to enjoy it. I don't have a clue what I'm doing and it's really not what I thought it'd be. It's for people who are very analytical, inquisitive and can identify trends and I am just completely out of my depth.

Most other people seem fine with it, and I've never felt like this in a job before. In my last job I got the hang of it fine after a few weeks and was much more straightforward.

I'm on 29.4k but I live alone. Yes I have no children but these days that's not even that great a salary. The Civil Service is great for flexibility, sick and maternity pay etc. So maybe I'd be silly to leave? I don't know if anyone else has had this feeling before, but I just know I'm going to hate and do poorly in this job.
My background is in teaching and I've done all sorts, tutoring, supply, SEN etc. I've also done a lot of social care work which I enjoyed.. if I could have something bringing in around 2k net a month that would be ideal.

Hoping I can go back to my old Civil service role, but it's entirely dependent on business need. Just not sure what to do, feel a bit lost and I'm 34 years old, feel like I should be settled in something.

could you take classes or learn from youtube etc ?

You won’t find moving as easy because of the lack of CS jobs at the moment. However, it is also hard, if you have been is the CS a while to move into the private sector and the CS job does give a lot of security, a great pension, sick pay, great holiday pay and wellbeing is significantly more valued than in some private sector roles. I would bide my time, and look for another CS role.

I think having come from teaching (unless you are SLT and love policy etc) we thrive on reactive and more practical responses than admin. You could try the Environment Agency instead, maybe a Comms role or incident response at a Grade 3 (£28k) and move quickly into a 4 (£33k) (which is a EO to SEO role roughly I think). It will be more responsive during environmental and flood incidents and you can have an incident role that you may enjoy and gives some added novelty to day to day work.

I appreciate all your replies 🙂