Government office associate. My #1 job duty is maintaining the documents in a SharePoint site - just the documents, mind you. This involves a lot of monotonous scanning (I've scanned 80,000 or so in the last 4 years) and following strict protocols to sort them. Trust me when I say this: It's not easy to learn, but once you master it, it's brainless. Duty #2 is processing paperwork for Medicaid and the redundancy there leads to mistakes eventually because it can be hard to recall whether you've done one specific step for case #17 or whether you did it for 14, 15, and 16.
Because I am focusing so much on this scanning, my skills are rotting. I feel like a worthless cog in a jalopy because I have asked for new regular duties for years - yes, plural - and gotten nothing. And while I do want to perhaps get a new job, I like the people and location here too much, plus I've only been a State employee for a little over three months (was a contractor before). And due to that and my medical situation finally being stable, I am moving out come December so it's not the right time for a change.
The redundancy of processing paperwork, scanning two feet of paper a week, and doing the same things causes severe burnout, which necessitates time off that I can't afford to take right now due to the cruelty of having to wait six total months before vacation time unlocks. I would be in a better place if I could take an extremely necessary 4-day weekend, but nooo....
I'm not going to try and compare our jobs, but that's part of life. Jobs are an open market, you dont have to stick with a job you dont like and if it's going to hurt you that much to find a new job, then your current one must not be that bad. ---
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