I love my job, I really do. We're a small firm, it's hybrid WFH, the environment is really relaxed. But I started out as the desk girl with some minor criminal filings, and then moved into PI when one of our prelit paralegals left. ....Then the other prelit paralegal left, leaving me with all 150 prelit cases.

And for a while, I was doing just fine. I was pumped, I was feeling courageous enough to ask for a much bigger raise since I'm doing the work of three people (I'm still doing my desk girl tasks, phones and mail, etc., on top of my prelit work).

But I'm just getting so drained. I applied for a dream job, which miraculously has called me back. Trying to get in touch to schedule an interview and praying it works out. It feels like I get a phone call every five minutes which interrupts whatever I'm doing, on top of attys calling with, "Did you get this PR yet? Call this PD for an update," and I just can't catch up anymore. There's some clients I haven't been able to call in months, I just don't have time and forget.

I really love it here, I love how I'm not very micromanaged, we're very spoiled here. But I really, really wish they'd hire somebody else.