u/missmiia212

I'm currently working as a Project Coordinator about 3 months now for a Cabinetry manufacturing company that provides project management. It started off fairly slow as they taught me my tasks which involve:

Writing and sending off Work Orders to different trades, creating Gantt Charts for each project and ensuring all the trades have been booked in accordance to the dates, scheduling the staff/trades and ensuring they are not double-booked/overworked, sending off documents to be signed, procurement of items/appliances/stock, receiving items & inventory mangement, updating the master schedule for the manufacturing based on the Gantt Charts I made.

Of course there are other things I do on the side as well such a liasing with clients, trades & suppliers, ensuring the little things don't get to the PM if I can deal with it myself such as client complaints and logistics management, finding lost items and such.

For a time I reviewed the plans drafted by the draughtsman but had told them I cannot do this on top of my other tasks as the drafter needs serious training and I end up taking over his CAD file and taking 4-6 hours to fix the mistakes. I'm a licensed Architect in my country, which doesn't mean much in the country I am now.

I only work 4 days a week as I have Uni classes on Fridays. I still contact and liaise with clients, trades and suppliers during class hours as the jobs continue on and things need damage control. And as majority of communication goes through me and the project management email that I manage, I couldn't not leave it alone.

Essentialy what I am asking is... how do PMs and other PCs deal with the stress, I feel incredibly overwhelmed most weeks and place too much blame on myself, even for things that aren't my fault due to other people not doing their part correctly.

I have asked another manager how he deals with the stress from the job and he says this situation in the company has never been this bad before and even he is feeling the stress and can't turn off after work hours. A lot of things have gone awry, majority of which is from our subcontractors, and fixing it has meant we are struggling to catch up with our own work. Majority of my work for the past couple of weeks has been damage control.

I told my partner I don't know if I can continue with this amount of stress and workload. I have made sure my work is done, on time, and try to alleviate the stress from the PMs as they're facing worse issues at the moment. They've assured me many times I'm doing a great job, given I'm still in my 3 month probation and is technically still training for the role.

I don't want to give this job up, but it has been overwhelming.

I'm currently working as a Project Coordinator about 3 months now for a Cabinetry manufacturing company that provides project management. It started off fairly slow as they taught me my tasks which involve:

Writing and sending off Work Orders to different trades, creating Gantt Charts for each project and ensuring all the trades have been booked in accordance to the dates, scheduling the staff/trades and ensuring they are not double-booked/overworked, sending off documents to be signed, procurement of items/appliances/stock, receiving items & inventory mangement, updating the master schedule for the manufacturing based on the Gantt Charts I made.

Of course there are other things I do on the side as well such a liasing with clients, trades & suppliers, ensuring the little things don't get to the PM if I can deal with it myself such as client complaints and logistics management, finding lost items and such.

For a time I reviewed the plans drafted by the draughtsman but had told them I cannot do this on top of my other tasks as the drafter needs serious training and I end up taking over his CAD file and taking 4-6 hours to fix the mistakes. I'm a licensed Architect in my country, which doesn't mean shit in the country I am now.

I only work 4 days a week as I have Uni classes on Fridays. I still contact and liaise with clients, trades and suppliers during class hours as the jobs continue on and things need damage control. And as majority of communication goes through me and the project management email that I manage, I couldn't not leave it alone.

Essentialy what I am asking is... how do PMs and other PCs deal with the stress, I feel incredibly overwhelmed most weeks and place too much blame on myself, even for things that aren't my fault due to other people not doing their part correctly.

I have asked another manager how he deals with the stress from the job and he says this situation in the company has never been this bad before and even he is feeling the stress and can't turn off after work hours. A lot of things have gone awry, majority of which is from our subcontractors, and fixing it has meant we are struggling to catch up with our own work. Majority of my work for the past couple of weeks has been damage control.

I told my partner I don't know if I can continue with this amount of stress. I have made sure my work is done, on time, and try to alleviate the stress from the PMs as they're facing worse issues at the moment. They've assured me many times I'm doing a great job, given I'm still in my 3 month probation and is technically still training for the role.

I don't want to give this job up, but it has been overwhelming and I can feel my mental health taking the brunt of it.

I'm on a student visa and have been working in a cafe for the past 1+ year, it is far from my previous job as an architect but it paid my bills and I enjoyed it.

Sidenote: I met my SP last year and we're looking to move in together once I find a job. He's a great affirmist and proactively started buying furniture and making adjustments to his place in preparation for when I find a job nearby.

Anyway, I know I should be working in my field and I started applying to jobs starting January of this year. I applied and applied to 100+ jobs. I kept getting ghosted.

Then I remembered manifestation, after 6 months of job hunting, I can't believe I forgot tbh, I was in a negative state for the first couple of months, repeatedly thinking no one would want me because of my student visa status.

But I went back and I started realigning myself, doing affirmations and imagining the future-past before I fall asleep. Repeating words like the job wanted me, they're looking for exactly me, and they have accommodated my visa, supportive with my growth. I have been slowly eliminated 'they will' 'they're going to' from my thoughts and changing it to 'they have'.

Spookiest moment was doing a manifestation test I saw online, they said to speak to the universe and ask for a gift and that it has to happen within the next 24 hours. I did that and 3 hours later got my first job interview in 1+ years.

I started manifesting 2 weeks ago... since then I got 3 job interviews, and two job offers in a single day!! It was in my field, they said I had the exact qualifications they were looking for and wanted me despite my work limitations. They accomodated my request for fridays off so I can keep going to school and they even have a second office that is a 15min walk from my SPs place. With the first office being 15min drive away.

I looked around my rented room this morning and realised I didnt have a lot to pack because the past few weeks I have been "living like I had the job already", I donated a large amount of stuff a week ago in preparation for my move. I haven't bought any groceries and have been steadily emptying my pantry.

It's truly amazing what manifestation and realignment can do, and that was how I managed to get my student visa in the first place. Everything just fell into the right place and the right time. I feel more confident with my path and I haven't stopped thanking the universe.