Quick background on me:
I am not new to the workforce - I have a few years of experience, and this is my 3rd job since college. My jobs haven't really built on each other; the reason for that is mostly just circumstance (one company closed down, and the other had pretty much no room for advancement).
Now to the job:
I started this new job about 6 months ago. Without getting into specifics, the role is to
manage certain software that a company uses. The work itself is interesting to me and matches up with my desired career path.
Prior to my hiring, the software was managed by one person, but for a bunch of reasons that person needed help. My role is a completely new one.
I am finding that I feel completely useless and underutilized here. Since my role is brand new, there isn't really any set expectations or responsibilities. My work here has mostly been handling the menial work that my boss doesn't have time for, password-reset type stuff, because he's swamped doing more high-level things or in meetings. As a result what has ended up happening is that I feel more like my boss's assistant than his subordinate.
My manager has a great personality and is very knowledgeable, but I don't think he is a very experienced manager and doesn't seem to know how to delegate. I am frequently going into his office asking if there's anything he needs my help working on, but usually I don't get much. I will try and look for little things myself to do, but the end result is usually that I have tons of downtime where I'm just watching the clock.
Kind of what put me over the edge was the fact that when I was brought on, I was told how I'd be part of this big project, and I even did some travelling for it when I first came on board, but now I feel kind of distanced from it and just wait for someone to give me project scraps to work on. It's a very high level project and I'm still the new(ish) guy with a lot less experience than everyone else on the team, so maybe that's the cause, but it still doesn't sit too well with me, and I haven't even been invited to the latest call.
I would look for another job but I just started this one recently and I don't think I will get anything better in this particular field because I'm still learning a lot about the software. I don't want to keep hopping from industry to industry, job type to job type, I'd like to get established as a professional. The salary here is also very good and I don't think I'd find that at another company if I'm essentially starting over.
What would you guys suggest I do? Do you think this is the sort of growing pains common with a new position where there aren't any set expectations yet & I should just wait it out and see how things evolve, or should I update my resume and try and get out because it sounds like I'm just wasting my time?
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