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I agree that there's always be menial tasks to do and decks to update. There's always something you can learn or get out of that, whether it's how to do it better or faster. But if it's long term and isn't helping you to get where you want, then something has to change. For now, use the slow period to learn something new and improve yourself.
I'm at the same place and it sucks, I feel I add no value. I've been transparent with my manager so that when I bring up rolling off in the near future, it is not a huge shock
Feel the same. Started at Big 4 a couple months ago. Was doing functional and integration design before coming. Now I'm doing menial configuration tasks and tracking issues for testing. It's really demotivating and I'm debating leaving to go somewhere smaller and with more challenge.
Guys it is not always gong to be the most interesting and challenging work. All of us at some points do tasks that are boring and are simple but we gotta get the job done. If this is long term then it’s time to find another project
From an analyst:
What if you figured out a way to do what you do just a lot better/easier? Sure it’s a tedious job but is there a way to make it more automated so that it becomes so menial that a monkey could run them? E.g. I worked as a financial analyst intern at one point. My team spent 6 hrs a day on 6 spreadsheets a month (3 days of 12 hour work) purely just copy pasting data and making checks. I was asked to help reduce the load so the full time analysts could do other things. Instead of wasting my time doing that task, I looked into building excel macros. Built one that reduced that 3 day process into 2 hours. Now I had time to do more interesting stuff and that menial stuff was passed off to India
I honestly don’t understand the elevated sense of yourself you have. I am a senior consultant and I do PPTS excel and crappy work all the time. Sometimes u just have to take one for the team for the greater good. If u don’t see the big picture of things maybe you should be demoted back to analyst
D2 I second that. I formatted a deck today. Sometimes you just do what you gotta do.