So I started a job at a power plant in March. A month after I started, there was a planned 2 month outage. I went into the plant nearly everyday with my coworkers just to help out and learn as much as possible. Once that was over, I began taking some responsibilities and traveling for training.
Soon after taking some responsibilities, I could tell this job, when not in an outage, is primarily a technical administrator. Lots of paperwork. I heard my supervisor at one point say "we get paid a lot of money to do paperwork". I completed a nearly 2 month long training a couple weeks ago, which I thoroughly enjoyed as it went into how the plant operates.
Now though, I feel overwhelmed by the paperwork. None of it overly difficult, but I guess my brain is just not wired to handle these types tasks, because I am struggling. I miss math. I miss formulas. I miss analyzing data. I never really had anxiety before... but I do now. Most days I can't concentrate long enough to make any real progress, I feel sick to my stomach most of the time.. I don't want to go to bed at night because I know I'll just have to come in and do paperwork. Almost none of my day to day work is really technical.
There is a design group where I feel like I would be a much better fit, but it would more than likely be a few years before I could switch there. I genuinely don't think I can handle this for years. I dread coming in every day.
Has anybody been in this situation before? I really could use some advice..
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