Administrative Assistants, Executive Assistants...do you like your job?

Question

I have been in this field for 6 years all together and I am burned out. Do you like your job or do you feel the same most of the time?

Answer 1

I was both once upon a time. I preferred being an Exec Assistant because I only worked for one person. Overrall, I moved on and began looking into Office Manager positions. I always felt God gave you hands/arms. Get your own damn coffee. 20 years later I am now an executive level Human Resource person. Move up hun,.

Answer 2

It sounds as though you have outgrown your position. You have three choices, move up within the company to get challenged, or look for similar work with a different company with a higher salary or third choice-do some thinking of where you see yourself in the future. For example, depending on who you are assisting, ask yourself if you would rather be the boss than the assistant, if so, go back to school to earn the degree that will get you there. At the end, you don't want to be an assistant forever or at least if you stay with the company, you want to move ahead and challenge yourself. Also, since you are burnt out, your employer may be giving more work to you than he/she would the average person. Sometimes employers are really cheap about hiring somebody else to take over more work and hand it down to the same people. At the end, you are burnt out without a higher salary/pay. Good luck!

Answer 3

Depends on your office and their salary range for each level. You could be at the high end of an Administrative Assistant salary and get promoted to Executive Assistant and be at the lower end of the scale since you are just starting out so there may be no significant change in your salary at first.

Answer 4

I've been an admin for 18 years, most of which was at one company (13 years) and I hated it but stayed for the pay and benefits. They were family owned and did not have a clue and the bosses there sucked. Last June they fired me, but I found a new admin job, took it for less money but they just gave me a great raise and I'm making what I was making at the crappy job I hated. So....I like what I do again because I work for a great company with great people and have a fabulous boss, it makes all the diffrence if you like your boss, work for a corporation, not a smaller family owned company, they will not treat you right, they only care about money and how much THEY can make.

Answer 5

It depends on what day you ask me. Right now, I'm putting in long hours as I've got a full day of graduation activities I'm putting together next month, end of the next month I have orientation for my new incoming residents, a site visit that we will spend most of the summer preparing for, still learning my job (I've been here 6 months)...some days I hate it, some days I love it.



If you feel burnt out, perhaps you should look for a new job, or a new industry or something. I've been in different areas of health care since graduating high school - medical transcriptionist/secretary for a small PT clinic, secretary in various departments of a corporate office for a LTC company, med staff secretary in a small hospital and now residency coordinator/admin asst for a residency program in a teaching hospital.

Answer 6

I love my job because I love my boss! There are several Executive Assistants in my building that work for awful people. My boss actually backs me up on decisions, etc...



I don't like making appts and scheduling conferences but that's only because not everyone is always available that same day.. Are you an Asst. and do you like your job??

Answer 7

Take up courses that relate to what you do. Maybe as a certified Admin. and you can earn more money. Maybe your company will reimburse you as well. Usually, if they see that you are willing to go the extra they meet you at least half way. Or look if you like computers try becoming certified as Software Admin.

Answer 8

Depends on who you assist..... Better you assist yourself in your own business.