woul you keep your job if this was you? please no negative feedback!!?

Question

i work mon-fri 8-4:30 $12.50 hr. I am the backup to several departments in my company. so when someone takes a day off, or has something going on i fill in for them. tuesdays and wednesdays i am always doing something for at least 4 hours in another department. Now i have great benefits, and my managers do not hassle me about my work, i do what i'm told and i usually ask for more things when i'm bored. but the thing is that they give me WAY TOO much stuff when i ask for it, and they give me stuff that will be a reoccuring task daily, and on the days that i have to fill in for people i cannot accomplish everything.
BUT then there are days like today, where i have sat on yahoo answers and i've done nothing all day long. i've asked to switch departments but they said that i'm to valuable as the "back up." I'm bored out of my mind at this position, and they will not let me move within the company. should i leave, or stay and hope that it gets better? i've been here for 11 months.

i'm not challanged in my job, and it feels like i'm wasting my time here. i don't like feeling like i do absolulty nothing at work. which is what i've done today.
would you leave your job if you felt like this?

as i've mentioned i've been here almost a year, and all of my other jobs i have kept for longer then 2 years. so i'm somewhat hesitant to leave after so short of a time period. but i think i'm going to go crazy, and to add to the second answerer, i have started to screw up because i'm so absent minded about work.

Answer 1

Job security is always a priority. Although the decision is ultimately yours here are a few things to think about before making that final decision--and maybe you have thought of them already.
-One is this the kind of company where you see yourself five...ten years from now.
-Is it just your current management that is keeping you from moving withing the co. and will this current position continue to be compensated accordingly as time went by?
-Will you be ok if lets say in another year a new employee comes onboard he/she gets promoted to a position you know you could perform just as well if not better?
-Are there others that acknowledge your work and would be willing to give u a chance.
-If you left the company today would you be financially alright for atleast 3 or 4 months?
Finding the perfect job is never easy. We all hit a few bumps along the road. However, no job or person should keep you from moving ahead.

Answer 2

I felt exactly like this in my old job, however I was working 10-14 h a day at 8.75/h as a technician. I started applying for jobs while I continued to work. Scheduled days off to do inteviews and found a new one for twice the pay and within normal 40 hours. I too was the back up for everyone, but as a traveling technnician, it's a pain.

Wait untill you get a year uner your belt. It looks better on a resume. Then start to look into other positions, do some interviews and get into somethign new. Bordom makes unhappy workers, and an unhappy worker is morelikely to screw up and get fired.

Good luck!

Answer 3

Hey, it sounds like you are TOO GOOD at your job...
too good to promote, because who could ever compare to YOU?
Too good because you can DO EVERYTHING THEY THROW AT YOU!!! Sounds to me like you should be getting quite a bit more than 12.50 an hour.
Then again, do you want to go somewhere else where you get hassled, hustled and harrassed all the time?
Perhaps you and your manager can come to some sort of agreement. If you have a coaching session coming up, or even your annual review, that's the time. You said youve been there for 11 months, so you should have a yearly review coming up soon. If you're as good as I think you are, they'll do anything to keep you happy.

Answer 4

If you are happy with the company and the benefits consider an inter office transfer. Keep watching job postings and apply for different positions that you find interesting.
Make an appointment to speak to your immediate supervisor and let them know you are not feeling challenged in your current position and you would like to pursue something more steady within the company.

Answer 5

Doesn't look too good on a resume to be there only 11 months. Is there anyone in the company with whom you can talk who'll hear your plea? HR or anybody anywhere? Companies are often very dumb bout such things but what they all have are problems that no one is addressing. IF you can discover one of those and figure out how to solve it, you may have reached the goal.

Answer 6

It sounds like you have already made your decision! You sound miserable! I would not leave just yet though, but actively start looking for a second job. When you have something you think you'd like better, turn in your notice. I had a similar experience once and am glad I left. A boring, dead-end job will drive you nuts.

Answer 7

You could hang in there a little while longer at your present job, and work at home to bring in additional streams of income. Be your own boss as Robert Kiyosaki suggests from his Rich Dad Poor Dad book "The Business School". You can do that until you make enough to replace the income you're making at work now and you can finally walk away and say BYE! Check out our Proven Formula at http://www.bedavis1.mywayout.net/ and watch everything unfold before your eyes how the business is done. It's incredible and worth a look see! Check it out with the BBB (better business bureau) as well! Do that with everything you look at!
Good luck on your endeavor!

Answer 8

If you have access to the internet and are allowed to peruse it when you're not needed, I'd use that opportunity to explore your interests and learn new skills. I learned Photoshop during downtime at a job I had and now I'm using that for 50% of my current job.

Answer 9

Regardless of the details, I encourage everyone to work at something that you enjoy, and that interests you. Your entire life outlook improves if you can genuinely say you like your job.

Sometimes it can pay less, but if you enjoy it you will excel at it. If you excel at it, you will be promoted, hence, more money.

Careful, though, you can be promoted high enough it is no longer fun!