I'm bored and frustrated at work. I've had a few interviews for other jobs but they've not been quite right for me or I haven't been right for them. I spend my weeks looking forward to the weekend, and when Sunday evening comes around I feel miserable.
I've been feeling underworked for a while, plus I would like to move up into a more managerial role, and so I spoke to our area manager to see if there were any opportunities for me to take on more responsibility. He came up with some that sounded interesting, but they have since been watered down or vetoed by my boss and others have said they want to get involved with the same project, when really it needs to be one person doing the organising, otherwise it will get very confused.
My boss is hopelessly disorganised and we spend our weeks firefighting, never planning ahead. I am so fed up with it, and any suggestions to improve our working practices or become more efficient are met with outright refusal or vague agreements that never become reality.
I feel like I'm banging my head against a wall and it is really getting me down. I spend my days mostly bored and counting the hours till home time, while my boss sits in the office, leaving me and my colleagues to find enough work to keep the junior members of staff going. We already barely have enough to keep us going.
I'm on every job site I can think of, my CV is up to date, but this time of year is traditionally rubbish for jobhunting in my industry. How do I keep myself going until the spring when the job market will wake up again?