Sorry, I guess this isn't mainly a financial question, but you are a wise bunch, so please weigh in.
In early 2012, I was asked if I wanted to do something a little different at my company. At the time I was working in the accounting department, and I was pinpointed for a lateral-ish growth-ish opportunity to move to the finance department. (less recording stuff, more analyzing stuff). They said I could do both for a while, and figure out if I liked the finance job. So I said yes. For 6 months I did two jobs, and of course, doing 2 jobs was crazy.
At that point I asked for a raise, but was told that even though I was doing a great job with both jobs, they don't do off cycle pay increase. I think this is probably BS, but whatever. If the answer was going to be "no," I would have been satisfied with "you can't do two jobs forever, so you aren't getting a raise for doing 2 jobs." Anyway, so I said "I can't do two jobs anymore," and they asked me to pick one, and they highly encouraged me to take the finance job.
So I picked the finance one, even though it was more challenging, because I thought that is what I was supposed to do, and it was what they wanted me to do. I spent the last 6 months of 2012 doing both jobs, anyway, because it took them forever to hire my replacement in accounting. So 2013 is the first year I've done just the finance job. I hate it. I'm just not as good at it as I was at my accounting job, and I'm really unhappy about it.
It's a good company to work for (after you get over their ruthlessness in letting people go, and if you can manage to stick around). Should I let the common boss between the two departments know that I want to go back to accounting? Or should I suck it up and keep at this crappy job, in hopes that it will get easier with more experience? Or should I just look for a new job and leave the company altogether?
Also, I never really got a raise for making the move to finance. At least I didn't see it that way. I got a "regular" raise of 4.5% when annual evaluations came around. Maybe it would only have been 3% if I hadn't taken on the additional work? IDK, my raise the prior year was 3.6%, and before that was 2.5%. So I don't think I should take a pay cut to go back, but should I expect to?