I’m a Biomedical Engineering grad (July 2024) currently working in a role that’s heavily focused on automation. Honestly, I’ve really enjoyed that side of things. I’ve been in the job for 7 months and was promoted within 4 months for strong performance.
But I’m pretty confused and frustrated at this point.
In these 7 months, I’ve had 4 different managers, all from completely different backgrounds. Only the first one actually had automation experience, and he was great. During the time I worked with him, I learned a ton and achieved a lot, which led to my promotion. He pushed me to learn on the job, and I’m genuinely grateful for that.
Since then, it’s been chaotic. I’ve repeatedly asked for a proper job description and it’s still getting debated but is meant to be official in 2 weeks (7 months in). I’ve also had to ask multiple times for resources/tools to do what was being asked of me, ended up paying out of pocket at one point (got reimbursed 2 months later).
On top of that, I keep getting assigned tasks that are clearly outside my role, literally other people’s responsibilities. When I push back, I get weird reactions.
Now, finally, I’m being told my role will include taking over someone else’s daily reporting and writing long reports to fix data issues. I pointed out that there are system engineers responsible for that data, so it should fall under their scope, but that got shut down. Instead, I’m being told I’ll basically be a data analyst/consultant/BI analyst/automation engineer/dashboard developer/business workflow creator or whatever the fuck regarding governance and compliance… for £23k/year. When I fought back I was told to either integrate or leave the company :)
I didn’t mind the salary initially since I’m entry-level, but what’s really bothering me is that my role seems to change every month into something I never agreed to. It feels like each new manager comes in and reshapes my job based on their own perspective.
At this point, I’m burned out, frustrated, and honestly feel like I’m becoming a jack of all trades but master of none. I don’t feel like I’m developing the skills I originally set out to build, and the lack of structure feels really unprofessional. I keep being told to “be patient” and just go with it. I’m scared of leaving the role as the job market is really awful right now but the unprofessionalism is really starting to bother me.
What would you do in this situation?