Associate
I’ve recently started a new job in support work and I’m really not enjoying it. I’m just over 3 months in and work with victims of crime. Coming into the job I loved talking to people and helping them (worked in retail previously) but now it’s just becoming draining and my heart is just not in it. We’re also severely short staffed and I’ve been thrown in at the deep end with me helping 50 odd people at the same time. I’m also finding myself having breakdowns myself every week. Just find myself getting emotional and then I can’t think about doing my work ( I wfh) I have raised this with my managers and they’ve tried to help by talking to me and lowering the case load but it’s not really working as more are coming in every day. I have no idea what to do, I know it’s probably happened to a lot of people where you’ve changed careers and realised it’s not the one. If I was to move I would 100% find a new job first. I’ve never quit a job before let alone leave something in probationary period so this whole situation is so new to me and I’m a bit stuck!!