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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]so may I ask, if you are a college graduate, why are you in an admin asst job?  If there isn't enough to do, perhaps you ARE overqualified?  Also, workloads can vary quite a bit depending on the industry, job and even management style.

I just ask this because, although I understand being thankful for being employed and having to start at the bottom, it sounds like you could be doing more in your career.  Are you looking for something more in your field that's less administrative and something that really challenges you?[/quote]

OP here. I do admin work (actually I'm an EA) because for the most part, I enjoy this type of work. I just need to find a way to do it at an elevated level. The only other careers I would love are teaching (constant budget woes prevent me from taking this leap), paralegal (hard to get a position at a law firm and I also don't want to work long hours) or event planning/project management (this is my TRUE passion. Would love to work in a dept that handled the company's various Board/corporate events (Have been searching this route and almost all require experience). My degree is in English, so it's not exactly a concentration with an obvious career path.

Since moving on to something else is not something I can bank on right now, my goal is to explore my current company. Perhaps exploring different departments will open up more opportunities for me. It's no doubt that I'm overqualified for what I'm doing now...I'm hoping that my current position can be redefined a bit.

I had the meeting with my boss and it went well. He was receptive and although he had no immediate answers, he did say that he would work on looking into more opportunities for me to do more. In the past, this has been an "empty promise", but now that I have his permission to go outside of my dept to see where I can be of help, I'm going to be a bit more proactive in seeking out additional (and hopefully challenging!) work. [/quote]

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