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Anonymous wrote:$106k for an admin assistant is good! Unless you can find a job that pays more I would stay- have you looked to move within your company?

OP here. Admin assistant is my job title but I don't honestly know if I have traditional functions. On a day to day basis most of the tasks assigned to me are pulling customer and financial data from a database in Excel format and generate charts and other excel tables to be used by others. I also help during meetings by passing around various documents. Sometimes when there are discrepancy in data, I am tasked with finding out what the issues are.

Anonymous wrote:Your salary is fantastic for an admin assistant. You will actually take a pay cut to retrain for most other jobs.

Anonymous wrote:If you spent your entire adult life in dead end jobs and have only basic excel skills to show for can you realistically re-start your career at 48? Or is the ship gone for good?

I am currently and admin assistant and I hate it. It's getting harder and harder to feel motivated to go to work. I simply don't want to work in a job where I have to constantly interact with people.

I want to re-start my career and I want a back office type of job? With my.excel skills I think data analyst could be a good transition. I don't have an IT degree though. My bachelor's degree obtained 26 years ago was in history.

I make $106,000 currently. Am I dreaming? Should I just stay where I am.until.retirement. I want to be optimistic but it seems to me that a lot of people on this board really believe ageism is real (they have probably been victim of it to be fair perhaps) and it gives me pause because I wonder if I should put in the effort just for companies to find too old to be an analyst at 48.