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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]thanks for the suggestions everyone.

My biggest problem is I don't know what I want to really DO still. I have been taking whatever jobs people throw at me because i need to pay bills and I hope i will get promoted or do something else but nope. Nothing works out. [b]I also have social anxiety which gives me amor anxiety so I end up underperforming everywhere I go.[/b][/quote]

The first step to changing your situation is to address this.  If you under-perform in the jobs you are assigned, you will never be given good opportunities to advance because people will not trust that you will be able to complete or excel at the assignment.

So, you need to get counseling and/or medication prescribed by your doctor to address your anxiety issues.  Then, work on applying yourself to your work diligently and improve your performance on the work you are assigned.  Try to do more than just the minimum.  Sometimes with basic admin work, it doesn't seem like that's possible, but there are ways to excel in most work.  If someone asks you to do something, try to ask a few questions about how something will be used.  Try to make sure that the results you turn in will make what your deliver easier to use.  Make sure that what you deliver is returned when expected or earlier.  Make sure that your work is neat and does not require someone else to proofread or check to be sure that it is accurate.  A good example is your OP.  You didn't proofread your own OP and ended up with a silly typo spelling error.  That may seem insignificant to you, especially on an anonymous forum, but if you do admin work and return more than one item with a typo on it, then I'm going to be less eager to give you work because it means that I have to make sure that I proofread anything you return to me before I can pass it on.  As a supervisor/manager, I don't always have the time to proofread things that I request, but in your case I would have to spend the time, because I can't trust that you will proofread and self-correct errors.  That's a huge limitation on an admin level person.  Once I don't have faith in you as an admin-type, I'm not going to give you the best opportunities to shine or excel, especially if this is a pattern (which it seems to be).  I'll look for the admin who always gives me what I want or more, gives it to me in a timely fashion and that I can trust without having to proofread.

Other options.  Look at your job and find ways to improve the job or make it more efficient.  I know an admin who was a receptionist.  Her predecessor had a company directory which was several sheets long pinned to the desk under the counter, one line per employee.  It included information such as the email address, office location, etc.  She took the existing directory and created two cheat sheets.  One was only name and extension, formatted into multiple columns so that the whole list fit on one sheet.  She then sorted it by department and again printed the whole list on one sheet, but each department was titled, then the head/lead of that department, then the staff members.  She added notes if any person had specific responsibilities, so HR would look like:

HR x1600
Ann Smith, Director  x1601
Betty Jones, Benefits  x1602
Carl Brown, x1603
Dorothy Williams, New Hires, x1604

And she posted it under the counter, easily visible.  I worked in IT and I know that when I went to work on her computer, if the main line rang, I could pick up the line and easily transfer calls to fell employees from her reference sheets without having to thumb through the longer directory.  She wasn't assigned to do this, but she made the job more efficient.  There was another admin for another company I worked for who was in charge of office supplies.  She regularly talked to the people or stopped by occasionally to say hello.  She looked at people's desks and she figured out supplies that would help people with their work.  Way back when, she was the first person I know who bought the little post-it arrows so that people could put an arrow by anywhere the recipient would need to sign/complete before sending.  She realized people were using bigger size post-its (like the little 1"x1" type) and just writing "Sign here" or "Please complete".  The little arrows saved people time and she figured out what people needed and added it to the inventory.  She was well known for almost being Radar-like prescient about what people needed for office supplies.  She also worked hard to get supplies as quickly as possible.  When she had troubles getting orders efficiently, she asked for a company credit card to purchase more supplies.  Because she was well trusted, she was granted one and she always had supplies as quickly as possible.

So, you work on making your job as efficient as possible and make on being reliable.  If you do this, you'll get considered for better opportunities.  Note: both of those admin types cited above moved on to bigger and better things within a year or two of holding those jobs.  I know that the second inventory person was specifically considered for a job "above her pay grade" because of how bright and reliable she was.  
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