Talk To Me: I'm fed up of doing work I'm not trained for and want to leave my job

Psychologist Caroline Martin is here to answer your questions on whatever issues you are dealing with in life, from work pressure and stress to loneliness and grief

When we graduate from college, we are usually keen to put our skills to use and seek jobs that will compensate us well.

I was thrown in at the deep end when I joined a small marketing company as a graduate a year ago. Though I don’t have as much experience as the others, I’m expected to keep up. I asked for a mentor but was told there was no need as everyone in the team was there to help me. Yet when I ask more than one question, I get the impression that I’m annoying my co-workers, who have been working together for years. I’m fed up and want to leave, but my parents say I should stick it out for at least another year.

There is quite a chasm between jumping in and being thrown in at the deep end. In the excellent TV series Bad Sisters, we watched as the sisters jumped nonchalantly into the cold water at The Forty Foot. However, many of us might relate more easily to the two women in the Lyons Tea advert sipping their tea on the shoreline, talking about getting in— one day.