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It’s your first job. Starting any new job feels like this after a month. You’ve barely given it a chance at this point, and there’s still a lot to learn and get the hang of.
Stick it out, gain some experience, and if you still don’t like it after a year start looking elsewhere.
I agree Digitas. Give it 6 mos to a year because it’s your first job. Later in your career, 5ish yrs out, act on that instinct then.
You’re getting great advice here. But it doesn’t seem to be landing. So I’ll give you the advice you’re waiting to hear... “Quit today, now. Hold out for a job that gives you everything you want and make sure they deliver ‘everything’on day one. Life is short and there’s no time to ‘pay your dues’ like everyone else starting out.”
No company is going to have an entry level person making important strategic decisions off the bat— you first need to just be sitting in meetings, reading emails, taking notes, and soaking in ad terminology/client needs.
Be brilliant at the basics. You will get the chance to be a strategist when you’ve earned the privilege and it isn’t a month (or even a year) out of college. This is your time to be a sponge. The work won’t be different at another agency - I’ve worked at a lot of different agencies and while 80% of my job right now is in the strategic world at a media agency, working with CMOS, creative and pr agencies - I put in the work, and if you do as well you will be afforded the opportunity to stretch beyond the boring stuff.
I think what got a bit buried is the team environment - if you can’t find joy with the people you work with it can be a bit miserable. It’s tough with Covid for sure but try bridging the relationships and give yourself permission (and patience) to be the best you can in this role. Being amazing at what you think might be droll is really setting you up for success in other areas as it will unlock trust from your organization to step into other projects that you could find really rewarding.
Everyone’s comments here are spot on. I don’t wanna be repetitive but all I’m gonna say is that you will never be doing strategy from day one in your first job. That comes with time and you need to earn their trust and Vice versa. Strategy is a seasoned expertise it comes w experience. Give it time, I promise you the grass isn’t always greener on the other side if you think there is a better job out there for you. It’s human nature to always find the flaws at our job bc guess what - work isn’t meant to be fun. It’s hard. That’s something they don’t really prep you for in college . I was blindsided and started in this world thinking I was cut out for any job and quickly realized it still is hard work and there is still so much to learn.