How to tell your employer you are bored in your job

Welcome to corporate life.

No one cares if you're bored, so forget that language. They care that you're not being used to maximum productivity....so volunteer for more work. Tell your boss that your tasks have become routine, so you're able to do them efficiently, and you have unused capacity....ask if s/he needs assistance with any major projects.

But drop the term "bored". You're not a kid on summer vacation. Everyone is bored with routine tasks--that's why we have to pay people to do them. If it was super-fun-tastic, someone would be doing it for free.

If your situation allows and they seriously won't give you more work, try self-improvement either in your field or another.

Try DuoLingo and learn a language.
Maybe try coding tutorials online, etc.

You will regret not using this time to make yourself, at a minimum, more interesting if not more valuable.

Just surf tinder and bumble all afternoon

If you have that much free time and management allows you to hide behind your screen, then you need better supervision. I'd seriously start looking for another job, because your current workplace is not well managed and thus will be a dead end for you.

Also be aware that some employers can and do review their employees' internet surfing histories.

Be proactive....can you not think of a single productive thing to do without being directly told to do it? Hell, go tidy the supply closet, or fill the printer/copier with paper, sanitize the phones.....I'd be desperately searching for more tasks as your multitude of free hours does not make you an indispensable employee...it makes you a little needed one.

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23 with your MBA? So you paid for it yourself and had no work experience

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Also put 20% down on a 15 year mortgage....

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23 with your MBA? So you paid for it yourself and had no work experience?

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I finished my undergrad in 3 years. I had two semesters of eligibility left so TOPS covered grad school.

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Also put 20% down on a 15 yr. mortgage"

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What's your point?

Ask for more work, or if there's any projects where they need help catching up. They won't complain.

Or volunteer for assignments other people don't want.

Excel skills can make some people in an organization think you have magical powers. I am blown away that even basic modeling functionality is seen as advanced with most people.

At this point, I can do anything I ever need in Excel and it took about 7 years of practice to get there. I have watched hundreds of hours of YouTube videos on new formulas and how those formulas can work with other formulas. Learning those skills when I was 23 has honestly changed my career trajectory as silly as it sounds.