So admittedly I haven’t been working at my current job for very long - only a couple of months. I’m working mostly independently now, though another woman at my job has been helping me with stuff that I don’t know. I work for a medical billing company, and we see to 9 different medical practices. Since starting, I have seen to the billing of two of those practices since I started and I was supposed to pick up more of those practices to balance the work out between the woman training me and myself. I’m fine with that. But today I found out that the woman training me has turned in her notice and is leaving.

So what’s the problem with this? The place I work for isn’t going to be replacing her very quickly (if history is any indication), if at all. I will now be responsible for the billing of all of our practices, and because I’m the newest person there, I will ultimately be the person with the biggest work load (short of the managers and owner) and the lowest pay. My training has picked up pace and I am just so incredibly overwhelmed and stressed out that I feel like I’m going to be sick.

Now it should also be said that I have wondered if this job is really for me. I haven’t been very happy since after my first week, and just figured that I would stick it out for awhile so that I could learn some new skills. And give enough notice so that they could maybe replace me and I could help train my replacement. Now, however, I just don’t see how I’m going to stay on top of it all. I won’t be getting any sort of pay raise, and there will be no replacement for my co-worker, at least for awhile (probably at least 6 months), I just don’t know what to do. I want to quit, but at the same time I feel like I ought to stick it out and see what happens. I’ve been so stressed out that I’ve been crying on and off all day long. I don’t blame my co-worker at all. She has to do what she has to do, and I wish her well. But I’m hoping I’m wrong and that they hire someone new pretty quick to help me. Because otherwise, I don’t see how I’m going to be able to keep up with the workload that is honestly too big for one person.

Also, yes she did it by herself before I got there, but there weren’t as many practices at the time. Maybe I’m making a mountain out of a molehill with this, and maybe it’s just the information overload with the training. But I’m so overwhelmed that I can hardly stand it. 😞