Accepted a management position and regret it.

Jun 4 in Q&A

I accepted a management position over 6 months ago and I am very unhappy in it. It was one of those promotions that fell into my lap because I was doing a "good job" and they wanted to give me more responsibility and I felt pressured and didn't want to "waste" an opportunity so I accepted it. The pay is okay, but the stress multiplied tenfold. I work a ton of hours now. It's high stress. High urgency. There are a ton of pointless meetings. A lot of interaction is required daily. I am forced to worry about my teams production metrics. There are hundreds of unnecessary emails. It's customer facing so there a lot of escalation calls and arguments too.

I would like to "descend the ladder" but I feel stuck now. The company is remote which is great and that seems increasingly rare these days so I don't necessarily want to leave. I just want to do my job and go home and focus on other important things in my life.

I doubt seriously my manager would let me apply for for a new role now not having mastered this one. Leadership is a typical corporate, loves the company, focuses heavily on the metrics and production. Also encourages doing "extra" things outside of the job scope. I am finding it challenging at times to set boundaries. Also typically to apply to another position, you need to wait a year.

How am I supposed to tell my manager I don't like this new role? Have I even given it a fair shot?
If I am stuck doing it for the time being, is there a way to make a front line managerial role a "lazy girl job" because as a manager don't you have to care about all the team metrics and numbers and stuff?

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