I graduated from university in June, 2 weeks later I was offered an associate/senior role as a systems owner in an industry I had previously worked in briefly and found many interesting opportunities in (in my previous workplace where I worked part-time). The role was advertised as being in part development of the systems, where programming skills were a requirement for the role. As my profile is mostly digital product design (ux) and web/app development, in addition to that I’ve previously run my own business in another line of work, I felt I had found myself something appropriate, albeit challenging, at a pay-grade that I could only think of having about five years on from now.
At the beginning the job was actually quite the fit. I got myself a UX project and I was also sketching on the architecture of a new system, and I was having continuous meetings with developers so that everything would be technically feasible. Me and my manager had long and lively strategic discussions. It was all good at this point, and I felt I was already in my dream position - right after university. Albeit I would have wished for having a mentor in my role, or even just a colleague doing similar things.
After about two months, however, “we” (me and my manager) realized that in relation to what is most prioritized in my role, we can’t afford rigorous design processes, nor me doing any programming. I was asked to do the same things that I do quicker, not because I was slow given what I was doing - but rather that I should be less aware of quality and rather just “do things” and maybe redo them some time in the future. And so I would also have time for more of my responsibilities.
Since then, my job has just been a race, I have five areas of responsibility (technical support, in-system development, digital strategy, process development and content production) at a company of approx 2000 employees, and it’s impossible to be on top of things. I have lost control and I work constant overtime, and in addition I don’t manage to finish everything that is expected, and have got some negative feedback right before Christmas due to this. Which was good, because it got me to reflect, and I’ve realized that most of the things that I’ve done the last three months is just barely relevant to my education, my drive and my passion.
As such I’ve been entertaining the idea of finding a more appropriate and possibly less senior occupation. The issue is, I won’t find such a job at my current pay grade. And I’m likely not doing myself any favors by quitting a job this early either, especially given the seniority of my role - it’s likely not especially popular to “just quit” all of a sudden.
From a purely career-centric point of view, is it better to endure a year or two at an almost irrelevant (and stressful) position this early on in my career, or would I be better off by quitting as soon as possible to work somewhere, where I can have colleagues to learn from, and work full-time nurturing the skills I actually want to develop?
I don’t believe any job is perfect, but at this point I suppose I’m a bit scared to be “unhireable” as a junior-medior designer/developer if I work too long in this position, because the natural way evolving from this role would rather be to some “upper middle management” role - and I take no interest whatsoever in leading people.
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