Serious Trade Desk Help

I have been on my desk for over a year and feel like I might be wasting time where I am currently at. 

I understand that the early years on a trade desk are meant to be a "hazing" period where you are just there to be sure the senior traders' lives are easier. But, to an extent, I feel like there's been a lot of overreach at this point and I'm not seeing any light at the end of the tunnel. I'm trying to decide now if moving to a new firm at my same role/starting over or lateraling into banking would be a smarter move. 

For context: I work 6-4 daily (pretty typical for this role) but over 60% of the desk works from home daily. I have not seen them in 6 months, and that is not an exaggeration. My brief interactions come from IB to adjust a hedge or look up a portfolio. I am first one in, last one out daily. I've tried to ask questions relevant to the role and get brushed aside from senior traders. And, if another trader assists me, usually I end up getting accosted about how I am wrong no matter what I say or do (even though the person with 10 years experience was the one who trained me how to do it). 

I am the designated errand runner (I understand this is what the junior is typically tasked with) but I have had to do tasks ranging from the daily lunch run, shipping personal packages for seniors, to ubering an hour away from the city to pick up a senior's car because they partied too hard the night before. 

Along with those duties, I am tasked with cleaning the office, stocking our fridge, and doing all our supply orders. I understand I am a junior, but I am not sure if I am paid enough to justify that. Which gets to my final point.

I know it sounds arrogant to be talking about pay and thinking I'm "worth" something. But I see job postings, other people who are more junior than me who have been trained up far faster at competing firms, and threads on here discussing pay. Base seems excessively low. 65k all in. I addressed in other posts how I do know that it was low to begin with, but knew the opportunity to get a foot in the door in this industry was something too great to pass up. But I have not seen any signs of an increase, there are zero performance reviews or annual reviews with seniors. I've had to dip into savings for nearly every month to pay for rent and groceries with the waning hope of increasing my income to start saving again. 

Is this similar to others who have started in this business? In terms of timeline, pay, experience, or growth. I just don't want to reach a point that I cannot afford my job anymore and could have jumped sooner and been able to stop stressing so much financially. 

 

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