Do you all feel challenged in your current position? I am not talking about the work hours but rather gaining new information. Some of my daily tasks feels very repetitive.

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I feel like I’m brain rotting harder doing this job than watching TikTok on an endless loop. An FP&A case study I did for a PE backed company required more critical thinking than my entire 2 years of IB.

I’m the opposite. I feel pretty challenged and learning new things all the time but with less hours. But the challenges are exponentially more stressful.

There are times when I feel a weird sense of deja vu, like what I'm doing is something I've already done. Not saying I'm up there with Sisyphus and the boulder, but there are times... Having said that, I'm not getting my hands dirty or breaking my back, so I recognize that it would be pathetic to complain.

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