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I Have One of Those “Easy” Desk Jobs Everyone Dreams Of. It Has a One Terrible Flaw.
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I Have One of Those “Easy” Desk Jobs Everyone Dreams Of. It Has a One Terrible Flaw.

Slate Magazine·Doree Shafrir·about 1 month ago
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Good Job Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by LittleBee80/iStock/Getty Images Plus and Kwangmoozaa/iStock/Getty Images Plus.  Good Job is Slate’s advice column on work. Have a workplace problem big or small? Send it to Laura Helmuth and Doree Shafrir here . (It’s anonymous!) Dear Good Job, I have a good job on paper. I make good money. I get health insurance for my family. I work from home and am able to do school drop-off and pick-up and cover sick days without an issue. No one is monitoring me. As a working parent, I could not ask for a better job. But I’m so bored. Everyday is the same set of tasks, and there is no variety in my workday. If my circumstances were different, I would say, well, obviously this job is not for me, and I should look for a new job. But that’s just not possible right now: the market is bad, and everything else about this job works for me and my family. I’m just so bored. No one wants to hear about this, obviously.…

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