re: How to tell your employer you are bored in your job

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Welcome to corporate life.

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i would be surprised if the hours worked for the average corporate drone are above 20 a week.

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I took it as he's complaining about the level of work he's doing and he thinks it is beneath him and he should be doing higher-level stuff.

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I'm not really sure why you would interpret it that way- If he's done with his daily tasks before 11 and doing high quality work, I think it's pretty obvious he can handle more. Obviously there are good and bad ways to handle that discussion with your peers/managers. The idea of coming to the discussion prepared with a project is a really good idea, and should help alleviate any potential for misinterpretation.

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.