I just need to leave don’t I

[TeresaCrowd]

I am so bitterly fed up of my job but I don’t know how to approach this without just sounding like it’s a big whinge. I moved into a new role that was a slight upwards move but didn’t put me massively higher than my previous role, but a bit sideways. It did come with a slight pay rise. This was a few years ago and since then new roles have been created for a few specific people that essentially cover off all the bits of my job that suited my skill set and personality, leaving me with only the bits I find a real mental challenge and it’s having such a negative effect on my motivation. Knowing every day I just have to go in and suffer through. Think a job that was 50:50 sales and analysing order data, I’m an analytical person who’s not overly confident in selling but they have now created a role for a full time data analyst to cope with increased workload so I’m only left with the sales side. There was no option to apply for the other job as it was created as another internal promotion for someone who wouldn’t have the knowledge to do the sales side. There’s no way I can move to the analytical team as that would leave no one in sales and I can’t really moan about having to do the sales as it was always part of my job, just made bearable by knowing other more detail focussed jobs would then come from that sale. I’m going to have to leave aren’t I? Anyone been in a similar situation and it worked out? I don’t know how to raise this constructively but it’s destroying my confidence.

It time to move.

There’s no way I can move to the analytical team as that would leave no one in sales
They would obvs be able to recruit to replace you if you moved into a vacancy, but it sounds like what would happen is your role would be reshaped and then other people's roles would be reshaped to compensate, rather than anything more formal and better organised.

It sounds like you've been there for a good while so moving on would be perfectly normal. You're potentially making it more difficult for yourself to move into the kind of role you actually want because you won't have any recent examples of exercising those skills? So I'd suggest sooner rather than later you start looking around for other work.

In the meantime it seems perfectly reasonable to approach your bosses to say you feel you've moved on from sales and you're looking for a new challenge. Just because you were hired to do it doesn't mean you have to do it forever! This lays the groundwork for you moving on if they can't find anything to suit you, but also gives them the opportunity to do so if they can.

Put yourself first and I hope you can find a role you feel fulfilled in doing.