Hit 5 years at the same help desk job and it finally hit me

I was just updating a ticket number #48291 for a printer jam and realized I've been doing this exact same job since 2019. That's over 1,800 days of resetting passwords and clearing cache. The scary part is I never noticed because the paycheck kept coming. Has anyone else looked up one day and realized they've been coasting way longer than they planned?

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rowan7258d ago

Are you actually scared to see what else is out there or just comfortable?

leelewis8d ago

Oh come on @rowan725, it's not about being scared. It's more that the devil you know beats a mystery box most days. Why risk a headache when you already got a decent setup going?

gavina738d ago

Last year I hit my 4 year mark at a similar gig and what broke me out of it was taking a single online certification class on my own time. Nothing fancy, just something to prove to myself I could still learn stuff. The funny thing is @leelewis is kinda right about the devil you know being tempting, but for me the real trick was just moving to a different kind of support role in the same company. I kept my pay and my benefits but I'm actually solving different problems now instead of the same printer jam over and over. Maybe ask your boss if there's a cross training program or a different team you could shadow for a day, just to see if that shakes something loose.