How to tell your employer you are bored in your job

Welcome to corporate life.

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There is a lot of earning potential here

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At a non-profit?


And why do you have 2 screen names?

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I may have 3-5 "tasks" that I have to complete in a day and I can get everything done before 11 am.

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sounds nice

The employees who go out of their way, and on their own motivation, to bring in more revenue, or to bring ideas to the table that will make the business better or more profitable are the ones that go up the ladder faster. If you sit around waiting for tasks t be given to you, or even if you ask for tasks, then they'll view you as nothing more than a laborer.

This is interesting. I'm also bored AF at my job. My bosses boss I can tell has lived his entire life inside of these four walls. It's a bit off putting really. He's a nice enough guy, but lives a very narrow existence.

Jeez and they won't let you leave? I'd ask to work remotely a couple times a week.

Also, is the job even worth it? How much are you making? Can you go somewhere else and make more?

Find ways to make yourself busy. Think outside the box. Be creative and entrepreneurial. If you don't have enough to do, they either don't need you or you aren't doing a good enough job of finding proactive ways to add value.

I was in your shoes with my second employer out of college. I was hired to implement a new service for the bank I was working for. It required tying in new technology, training the employees who were in the new department, marketing the service through mass media advertising, setting up a system to track the users of the new service and making sure all bank employees were knowledgeable about the new service and could cross-sell it. It was a big undertaking.

But after about a year when the new service was up and running and had gotten routine, the work challenge was over for me.

So, what I did was write a memo to the president of our bank, who I reported to, and told him I thought the position I was in should be abolished and one of the clerical persons in the department should me named the head of the new service reporting to someone other than the president of the bank.

I told him the routine duties my job had become didn't justify someone of my salary to keep it going on a day-to-day basis.

When he got my memo he called me and said in all his years he had never gotten a memo from someone saying their job should be done away with. Then he said, he'd miss me and what were my plans after leaving the bank?

Instead of laying me off, he promoted me and put me in charge of a big department in the bank that had been having some operational and personnel problems, including some legal challenges by employees. He told me to straighten that department out. It was a challenge alright!

I'm not saying you should tell your boss your job should be done away with, but it worked out nicely for me. I knew I couldn't keep doing a boring job so if it meant I had to leave and find job satisfaction somewhere else, that was okay with me.....

I'd rather be bored making money than stressed and blue in the face making minimum wage. What is that you do because I'll take it.